Kapp Notes
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Wouldn’t it be great to have the most dominant, overruling, kick butt e-learning imaginable. (meaning people actually learned and applied what you wanted them to learn and apply from taking your e-learning module). Here are three tips to help you achieve that goal. ONE: Make the learning meaningful. The learner needs to see an immediate need and application of the content to what they are doing.
Upside Learning
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
This weekend, one of my parents reminded me that I got my first digital game console exactly thirty years ago, the Atari 2600. I’d been playing simple games on my dad’s Apple II, but the Atari console was a totally different experience. Different because first you hooked up to a TV screen, and second, loading software was as easy as swapping cartridges and resetting the console.
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Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Where does social media fit in the organization? In talking with a social media entrepreneur over beers the other day, he mentioned that one of his barriers in dealing with organizations was that they didn’t have a budget line for social media software. That may sound trivial, but it’s actually a real issue in terms of freeing up the organization.
Learning Visions
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." ~ Rainer Marie Rilke, from “Letters to a Young Poet". Words to live by. And, it turns out, words by which to design instruction.
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Living in Learning
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
A question many of us have sought to answer…or maybe “predict”…came up in one of my networking groups this morning. “When you do you know that the Learning & Development function in your organization is fully developed?” The answer to this may be as impossible to define as it is to nail Jell-O to the wall. Methinks being fully developed, means being in a constant state of "evolution" with a minimum of resistance to change.
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Mindflash
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Are you someone who has ‘fallen into’ your role? In most fields, professionals have gone to school and been ‘prepared’ in some way for their role in the workplace. An accountant, for instance, generally has some sort of degree or certification that relates to finance. Yet the opposite is often true for training professionals, who often find themselves in training because they have some level of expertise in a tactical field, and at some point someone suggests: ”Hey, you should teach othe
Clive on Learning
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Means, motive and opportunity might be necessary if you are to convince a jury to convict in a trial, but they also apply in a wide variety of other circumstances, not least whether or not learning technologies make sense for a particular population: Means Learners need the means to engage with technology, in particular the IT literacy. While not so long ago this was a major obstacle, even in developed economies, the problem is fast reducing.
LearningGuild
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
The eLearning Guild has released the 2012 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report. Summary and links are here, along with a salary calculator you can use to compute and compare baseline salaries with your own situation.
LearningGuild
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Last-minute training requests make many training departments wish they had a seat at the table when projects are being developed. If your training group wants to partner with other areas in the organization, here are some ways to accomplish that goal.
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LearningGuild
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Online-learning initiative’s first offering, “6.002x: Circuits and Electronics,” accepting registrants now.
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