bozarthzone

JUNE 27, 2016

I am thrilled that Training Magazine has booked Temple Grandin to keynote Training 2017. She has published hundreds of technical articles, and 12 books including "Thinking in Pictures", "The Way I See It", and "The Autistic Brain". Wikipedia: ". She obtained her B.A. HBO has made a movie about her life starring Claire Danes.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Certainly the bigger goal is to help training become less an event and more a process, and to support ways for workers to form communities and interact with one another -- not just with the trainer. Ideas for other activities?

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Tuesday morning brought the sad, but not surprising, news that 41-year-old Training Magazine will cease publication with its March 2010 issue. Every sale saw new staff, less and less knowledgeable about (or, as far as I could tell, interested in) workplace training and learning. I owe Training Magazine a great deal.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 15, 2016

These are frequently compounded by a lack of travel funds for moving people or instructors around for face-to-face training events. As with the struggle to differentiate “presentation” from “training,” I tried to distinguish better use of—and my approach to—virtual classroom-based instruction with language like “live online session.”

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bozarthzone

JULY 19, 2016

“When you’re looking at ‘converting’ classroom training to an online format, try to actually get to the classroom event. You can access the full article at: Nuts and Bolts: What's the Reality? Get clear on what really goes on there, as opposed to what you might hear in a meeting or via document review.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 2, 2012

I have an article in the new issue of ASTD's T+D, "From Traditional Instruction to Instructional Design 2.0". It's excerpted here if you'd like to take look. Some highlights: Social learning is learning with and from others by moving within one’s culture, workplace, and world.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For instance, "Diversity", "Harassment", and "Ethics" can be really interesting, engaging training topics if handled by good designers and facilitators. makes the training mandatory. This topic becomes a chore and, worse yet, learners have had another bad "training" experience. And PS: We didn't enjoy having them there, either.)

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