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Instructional Techniques – Quick Takes – 1

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However, as a foundational activity – just like in construction – if the base is level what stands on the 30th floor will be plumb. Immediately the book owner had to make choices and assign roles – some, depending on the book were obvious, others exposed some hesitancy and were clearly guesswork.

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GAMIFICATION – PLAYING AT (NOT) LEARNING

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Virtual Realities w/Active Role Plays as Real Time Events. Could be avatars as actors but roles and actions are true to life and specific to the client’ need. Higher Level Techniques – Best used when moving from guided to independent practice. Stop Action Realities – Decision/Crisis Points. Media: Video, HTML5, Flash.

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WITH REGARDS TO mLEARNING: A CASE IN POINT OR UP IN THE AIR

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In addition, before starting the next series of hires, managers spent much more time at the airport observing the activities of each trainee. Those parts of the training that worked well, like procedures, regulatory issues, basic airline operations and the roles and tasks for each position should remain in place. I know…I wrote them.

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SCENARIOS ARE MINI DRAMAS…NOT A GLORIFIED Q & A.

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Only in the case of learning, it would mean meeting a challenge as a role player and by actions, words, and deeds, demonstrating competence in order to move ahead in the course. In fact, consider more than one virtual space; activities amongst actors, like in a film rely on multiple sets to help tell and sell the story.

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The Learner, 70:20:10 and Customer Experience

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This diminishes the role of the learning designer or at least, as far as I can tell reshapes it. Jennings research clearly says most learning, over 80%, takes place in the workplace not the classroom (and I assume not the screen either). He has demoted formal learning to the ’10’.

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LEADERS ARE TOO FAR UPSTREAM TO EFFECT CHANGE—TALENT MANAGEMENT MUST BE FOCUSED DOWNSTREAM ON MANAGERS

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More often than ever before, business problems demand more right brain, conceptual activity. When companies speak of talent management they still, in most cases, make distinctions among the types of employees who earn or receive the types of learning that prepares them for one role or the other.