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eCombat: Lessons from the Interactive Battlefields of Afghanistan

Vignettes Learning

Spencer Ackerman features Vanguard of Valor, an interactive teaching tool built to instruct the mid-career officers who pass through the Army’s Combined Arms Center, about the lessons accumulated from years of hard-fought war in Afghanistan. Vanguard of Valor also contains a compendium of lessons learned from past military engagements.

Lesson 75
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Mini-Lessons: A Different Learning Approach

Raptivity

Although presented in small bites to satisfy today’s learners, effective mini-lessons follow good teaching practice. The key feature of each mini-lesson is that it is quick and specific. And of course, do let me know your thoughts on my mini lesson sample. Have you created any mini learning sample(s)?

Lesson 100
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OpenSesame announces partnership with Big Think to expand business skills and leadership course library

OpenSesame

Global 2000 enterprises can now leverage Big Think’s courses to become ‘smarter faster’ through actionable lessons from the world’s greatest thinkers and doers. Big Think created short-form videos to effectively teach a wide range of vital soft skills in order to stay ahead in today’s fast-paced world.

Library 98
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Where the leadership pipeline truly begins

CLO Magazine

After serving as a faculty member, I transitioned to the business world and was fortuitously able to combine my passion for teaching and coaching students into a career focused on human capital development. Patrick teaches a course to seniors called “Leadership and Literature” at Tabor Academy.

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What Sports Teach Our Kids and Why Video Games are Better.

Kapp Notes

Then he contended that video games can't teach ethics, empathy or other important skills. The implication is that kids learn far more positive lessons in organized kids sports than playing video games. Do sports always teach these laudable values? I believe in the lessons that sports teach us.

Games 172
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Learning cultures and gamification at #oeb21 in Berlin

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

There were about 650 people and normally more than 2000. Corona clearly influenced the content: there were many sessions with lessons learned from COVID-19, and a lot about proctoring in education. Laura Overton facilitated a World Café based on lessons learned from a CIPD report titled 'Learning and skills at work survey 2021'.

Culture 133
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Unleashing Superheroes – Lessons from the Classroom

Growth Engineering

Join me as I head back to school to find out what the classroom can teach us about Unleashing Superheroes. To create successful online learning we need to avoid taking on bad teaching habits. Lessons from the Bad Teachers. As instructional designers we need to steer clear of bad teaching habits! . L&D pros beware!

Lesson 40