CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

The ASTD Forum offers a collaborative environment for senior learning professionals and their organizations to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by the industry. The advisory group consists of 10 members who serve as advisers, advocates, mentors, leaders for the forum and its members, and as partners with ASTD.

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Take an e-Learning Break

JANUARY 26, 2012

Experience is the Best Teacher – Using Simulations to Build Experience Ken Spero, Executive Director, NexLearn - Immersive Learning University Are you interested in developing simulations but don’t have the time to go to a workshop or conference? If so, this ASTD online workshop may be the answer.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 18, 2011

After a huge success at ASTD TechKnowledge 2011, April will see us participating in CIPD HRD 2011 , an HRD conference and exhibition. We’ll be happy to share how we are currently helping our customers maintain continuous learning and development within the constraints of the current economy. And we bet you wouldn’t want to miss it.

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Association eLearning

MAY 1, 2012

First, the team heads to picturesque Denver, Colorado for the world’s largest training and development conference, ASTD International 2012, May 7-9. Additional information about ASTD International and CME Congress can be found on the conference websites. Amy Bassett Marketing Director at Digitec Interactive.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 30, 2013

One of the many hats I wear at Bloomsburg is as the Assistant Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Center (ELC). As the assistant director, I have had the pleasure of working with two students, Paul Rosa and Sean Roth who have a great business idea and they have really run with it. Starting a Business. Blogging Around Town.

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Web Courseworks

DECEMBER 23, 2014

If you’ve identified an eLearning opportunity and developed a grand vision to capitalize on it, you’re probably thinking about how to approach your executive director or board of directors to get the funding you need. Develop a membership recognition and rewards campaign. and marketing costs.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

ASTD reports an increase in spending on L&D in 2010 (latest year for which data is available); they estimate companies spent about $171.5 Garry Marsh, director of the U.K. It doesn’t have to cost much to develop talent. At least, that’s what’s indicated by the leading organizations in this kind of research.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 31, 2009

In the fifty years since, his thoughts (Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results) have gone on to evolve into the legendary Kirkpatrick’s Four Level Evaluation Model and become the basis on which learning & development departments can show the value of training to the business. You can download the paper here.

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Kirkpatrick Metrics eLearning Consultant Evalution 174

Mindflash

APRIL 11, 2012

But this year, the stars aligned, and we were fortunate enough to be able to send our entire learning and development team to Denver for the ASTD International Conference and Expo. Opportunity to develop. In others, it could be through content- or even leadership-development. Image used courtesy of ASTD.

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Association eLearning

MAY 26, 2011

Knowledge Direct – a SaaS based learning management system for online continuing education, professional development and certification programs, received rave reviews in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for External Training category. AAMSE Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, July 20-22, 2011. December 6-8, 2011.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 5, 2014

THE QUOTE: “ Design and develop performance support solutions with a focus on context, not content.” – Jeremy Smith. “ MOOCs and Performance Support : This Your Training Edge article by Bryan Nelson (Managing Director of CapitalWave Inc.) You can’t teach people everything they need to know.

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Mindflash

OCTOBER 15, 2010

What will be a huge shock is that training directors, trainers, and instructional designers must develop new skills in order to stay relevant in 21st century business. Start with these three: social media, collaboration, and rapid learning development. Big shock, right? – General Eric Shinseki, former U.S. Hint: you can.

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Skills Wiki Social Media ASTD 111

The Learning Circuits

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Chad Udell is the managing director at Float Learning, a consultingfirm that combines strategy, mobile app development, and eLearning to guideorganizations by harnessing the power of mobile learning. Chad will be leading a fullday workshop on prototyping at the upcoming ASTD TechKnowledge Conferencein January. Chad has a B.S.

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Association eLearning

JULY 1, 2013

If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. As a game-based learning developer, we often look at increasing learner engagement by using leaderboards, status posts, and badges, but true engagement comes from something even more basic. But how often do we recognize this?

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Games Learner Social Networks Gamification 178

Mindflash

APRIL 18, 2012

I was frank when I told everyone that the “training department” will not be able to provide everything people need to be great at their jobs and that each one of us need to make a commitment to our own development. Develop leadership skills. So my advice on Friday to everyone at my company was to develop leadership skills.

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Training Industry

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

There is no shortage of optimism among learning professionals about the positive impact that today's new technologies are having on the learning and development profession. Chris Pirie, chairman of the ASTD Board of Directors, asserts that now is probably the best time to be a learning and development stakeholder.

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Mindflash

MAY 23, 2012

Since then, I’ve been on a quest to help people in the learning and development industry continuously learn new skills and stay current. In the book, I tell a story about an interaction I had with a director of customer service, who was my boss, about what she needed from me. Software developers think in versions.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

Bob joined LearningGuide from Microsoft, where he was Director of Learning Strategy and Evangelism. Before, Bob was the Executive Director of Education for Element K where he directed and influenced their learning model and products. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Dr. Karrer taught Computer Science for eleven years.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 5, 2014

THE QUOTE: “ Design and develop performance support solutions with a focus on context, not content.” – Jeremy Smith “ You can’t teach people everything they need to know. MOOCs and Performance Support : This Your Training Edge article by Bryan Nelson (Managing Director of CapitalWave Inc.)

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Mindflash

APRIL 25, 2012

While facilitating a leadership-development class a few years back, we had a discussion on empowerment. Their people would have a chance to develop their skills, would feel respected by their boss, and would (in most cases) respect the freedom and responsibility they’d been given and use it wisely to help customers.

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Mindflash

APRIL 25, 2012

While facilitating a leadership-development class a few years back, we had a discussion on empowerment. Their people would have a chance to develop their skills, would feel respected by their boss, and would (in most cases) respect the freedom and responsibility they’d been given and use it wisely to help customers.

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Mindflash

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Many organizations like ASTD , Training Magazine , and others offer free webinars you can participate in. Another great option is to find a way to attend at least one industry conference each year, such as The eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions or DevLearn conferences, or ASTD’s International Conference and Exposition.

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Mindflash

MAY 29, 2012

In my past role as a director of “Edgeucation” (which we called it, to stress that education is how employees develop and get pushed to their “edge”) we offered our materials in several different methods. Jay is a member of SHRM, ASTD, the National Speakers Association and the Florida Speakers Association.

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Mindflash

JUNE 8, 2012

If your organization isn’t managing the development of learning programs as a project, you should. Instructional Design (ID) is an important process, but there’s much more to developing a complex learning program than simply ID. In situations where timelines cannot be adjusted, the two solution approach still has merit.

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Mindflash

MAY 24, 2012

In my years as a learning and development professional, I’ve heard phrases like these many times — attempts to, in some way, justify the hard work training professionals do each and every day. David Kelly is the director of training at Carver Federal Savings Bank and member of the ASTD National Advisors for Chapters.

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Mindflash

MAY 2, 2012

Bill Cushard , Director of Training and Development at Allonhill , is a learning leader with more than 12 years of experience in training and performance improvement at companies such as E*TRADE Financial, Accenture, and Time Warner Cable. Image used courtesy of ASTD.

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Mindflash

MARCH 28, 2012

For more Daily Mindflash articles on Learning and Development, click here. David Kelly is the director of training at Carver Federal Savings Bank and ember of the ASTD National Advisors for Chapters.

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Mindflash

APRIL 4, 2012

Many people look at Don Kirkpatrick ’s work from as early as 1959 as the beginning of ROI in learning and development. It was in his early work that Kirkpatrick developed his four-level model: Level 1: Reaction. Here’s a look at the reasons why, and how training and learning in the workplace truly ought to be measured.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 11, 2010

Day Five: 01/15/10 Rich Mesch at Performance Development Group's Performance Punctuated blog. Day Nine: 01/21/10 Brent Schlenker's blog Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development. With special guest blog this week by Course Director Daniel M. Day Twenty-Two 02/09/10 Dan Bliton at the DC Metro ASTD Podcast site.(Yes,

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Learning Visions

MAY 20, 2009

No eLearning development houses. Youll be interested to hear that when 200 CLOs/e-learning managers/training directors were asked to name 10 custom content development companies, most couldnt name 5. Responder listed themselves as internal purchasers of outsourced services too so it wasnt like they didnt use custom developers.

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Mindflash

JUNE 6, 2012

Consider research conducted by ASTD that suggests it takes about 45 hours of development time to create one hour of classroom training (and it’s even longer for e-learning initiatives). Think Like a Software Developer. That way, they’re free to think like a software developer, and release a “Version 1.0″

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Mindflash

MAY 17, 2012

So what, if anything, can learning and development pros learn from the rapid ascension — and even more rapid demise — of Draw Something? The developers tried to fill the gap with an update that allows players to send comments to each other after a guessing round is over. What is Draw Something?

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Mindflash

MAY 10, 2012

Language is a fascinating thing: It’s how we communicate our thoughts and develop relationships, but used ineffectively, it can also bog down the same relationships we’re trying to build. David Kelly is the director of training at Carver Federal Savings Bank and member of the ASTD National Advisors for Chapters.

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Mindflash

MAY 26, 2011

One of my career roles was a director of education (we called it “edgeucation” because our programs gave our employees an “edge”) for a company of 3,500 employees. So we developed our “Dashboard Discussions” – a recorded training concept presentation followed by a senior sales manager’s interpretation and workplace application of the concept.

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Mindflash

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

As a previous director of education for a large multinational company, here are the two reasons I think this happens, and what we can do about it. Jay is a member of SHRM, ASTD, the National Speakers Association and the Florida Speakers Association. That’s an alarming percentage. What’s Going Wrong? He is the author of Fire Up!

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Learning Visions

MAY 6, 2009

I have even had the light bulb go on once I let them know that I developed eLearning. So I simply say I develop eLearning or training. I find the role of IT trainer works best for me, as my actual role title Systems Learning and Development Designer is a bit of a problem, particularly on forms! 6:23 AM Janet Clarey said. "I

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 14, 2009

Alan Young, Director of Curriculum Development at Brigham Young University-Idaho Jennifer Summerville, Ph.D, Reflecting on #ASTD10 Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS" Chicago Bound: Kineo at ASTD ICE #astd10 One Year on at Kineo #yam Now that’s an Enterprise Moodle! -- Kineo Moodle f.

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