From the Coleface

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Jay Cross has an interesting article in the December issue of the “Inside Learning Technologies” magazine about making business decisions and the use of business metrics. As I made the claim in Feb that 2009 would be the year of “ bad measurement ” this is a topic close to my heart. Amongst the exhortations for L&D people to be more business savvy which are hard to take issue with, Jay states that we now work in an environment where a “great knowledge worker can

Knowledge Worker 100

Knowledge Worker Knowledge Metrics Ratio 100

From the Coleface

DECEMBER 6, 2009

In October’s TJ, Justin Collinge writes a thought-provoking article called “Are you m*ssing a tr*ck?” His premise is that if you leave information out of a visual, or deliberately reverse the letters in a word so that the learner has to work out what the correct message is, they are more likely to engage with it and remember it. The scientific basis for this is the “generation effect” which I remember fondly from my days of being a psychology undergraduate.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Effectiveness Module Association 100