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The 0% Solution to Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning occurs because of a performance management system that permeates every aspect of organizational life, not because of isolated instructor-based courses, workshops, and seminars. Brinkerhoff makes this point in his writing about measuring the contribution that training makes to learning and performance improvement.

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Enough already with ILT

eLearning 24-7

As anyone in L&D and training can tell you, requiring employees to attend a seminar is not an easy task. Remember the days when ATD (then known as ASTD) was all about ILT, consultants selling books and other items? CLOs in general love ILT. No one likes to be stared at. . Wait there is more. I saw it quite a bit.

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E-Learning: An Impossible Dream?

eLearning 24-7

WBT offers real world scenarios to be within the course, full interactivity and engagement; sure ILT can do this – but really, how many seminars have you attended that they actually delivered this? You see in Linkedin groups – go check out the ASTD Linkedin group and see how many times they focus on ILT vs WBT.

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How to Select Learning That Fits Your Business

CLO Magazine

percent in 2011, according to the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Conferences and Public Seminars. Advantages: Conferences and seminars provided by associations tend to be targeted to the membership. Executive Education Seminars. Technology-based delivery of instruction rose from 29.2

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

One conference planner, who did not wish to be identified because of continuing hotel negotiations, canceled a two-day seminar a month before it was scheduled to take place when only 16 delegates had registered. The event had drawn an average of 125 people in years past. Response 48. Old habits die hard.