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The new self-directed learning toolkit

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Web articles and PDFs are not a glamorous or high-tech solution, but they are the resources we normally turn to for a more in-depth examination of an issue. Web articles are the more flexible of the two options, but PDFs are better when you know the document is going to get printed.

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A question of attitude

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Ernest had strong opinions on just about all matters of pedagogy and good practice and that included the issue of attitudes. It's almost impossible to address issues of knowledge and skill when attitudes are in the way. The article goes on to present a variety of instructional design models for influencing attitude change.

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Eating an elephant

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The best way that I've found to write a book one mouthful at a time is by conceiving of it as a part work, each edition being issued as a blog posting. With The New Learning Architect , I issued the book as a part work on the Onlignment blog subsequent to publication.

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Before we criticise the next new medium …

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Don't Shoot the Messenger , in a recent issue of The Economist, emphasised just how much new media have been resisted over the ages. As the article points out, Obama "joined a long tradition of grumbling about new technologies and new forms of media.”

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D is also for debunking

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Last Monday I issued Post D , where D was the Roman numeral for 500. My exact reasons for stating this are detailed here in my article entitled Holy Grail or Empty Vessel? With increase demand from my management to demonstrate the effectiveness of training, I got to find a way to deal with the issue of transfer."

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Why managers matter

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In a rare training-related article in People Management magazine, Evaluating Performance Gain from Training , my attention was drawn to an interesting study conducted by training outsourcing specialists KnowledgePool , with input from more than 10,000 learners and their managers over a three year period.

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Games lessons

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This week's Economist carried an interesting article about the use of video games at school. " Not any old games of course, but 'serious games' which encourage children to explore concepts and issues while engaged in a series of challenges.

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