Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

My background includes extensive experience in learning, teaching, and facilitation, and I love technology and how its changing our culture. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? What are some ways in which you build and support your network?

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Use the functional designs, to-be process diagrams, and test scripts to take a stab at learning objectives, an outline, and draft content before you meet with your SMEs. Start a page for each learning topic and add draft learning objectives and content. That way you learn as your SMEs learn.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Not Everyone is a Social Customer by Paul on February 11, 2011 in Development Tools , customer service , social learning A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about the need to train your clients on the various methods of…training.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. Mistakes or guessing should cause realistic consequence.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? I started thinking about this during a program on Accelerated Learning at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (MNISPI).

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator. Experience, truly, is the best teacher!

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? Because video is, apparently, a perfect manifestation of social learning theory. Here’s a quick primer on video as a learning tool from Learning Solutions Magazine.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Temporary Staffing Revolution by Paul on December 28, 2010 in Temporary staffing A few weeks ago, I grabbed coffee with a long-time family friend that happens to be a training developer. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? Academia needs a coherent learning theory, or set of theories, that provides guidance for building the road system so the cars can operate. Trent gets it!

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Hey, That’s Social Learning! by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2011

I like to imagine performance support as an Exobrain … (and, of course, that I am one of the smart people in learning … guess I will have to ask Simon about that.) Web-based learning portals are the ultimate brain food — extending brain power by positioning learning and How-To reference material close to the job, 24/7.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 6, 2010

Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. E-learning. Instructional Designers.

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Experience API

JANUARY 20, 2021

At Rustici Software, I’m lucky to work with colleagues who enjoy sharing their expertise with others through blog writing. Well, eLearning Learning was looking for nominations for the best of the best in thought leadership to decide the true MVPs. While Brian’s blog takes the trophy, we also want to recognize our runner-up.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since Jim’s and my first discussion about cognitive load, I’ve challenged myself to dive into learning more about it, specifically, proactively targeting a learner’s cognitive load while developing eLearning content. Cognitive Stall – When a learner has disengaged from learning. So let’s get started. Other stimuli, you ask?

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

My knowledge of blogging was initially acquired as a graduate student for a social media course. Dr. Andrew Klobucar, who was the professor at NJIT for my social media course, stressed that social media as a whole—which included blogs—had the role of creating community. I discovered that blogging was a self-learning tool.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 27, 2015

When I attend webinars or participate in online courses and conferences, I usually live blog my notes. That helps me remember what I attended and what I learned, and it lets me share that knowledge with others. Because I have done so much live blogging, I was able to provide proof of my ongoing professional development efforts.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Today, I’m sharing two categories of my top posts of 2021. The first category is the top posts that I wrote and published this year, excluding updates of old posts. The second category includes the top posts by overall views, regardless of when I actually published them. Evergreen blog posts. 15 years of blogging.

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Knowledge Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2013

A while back we did a post listing 100 Great Game Based Learning and Gamification Resources , and since then we’ve done an occasional series called GBL Picks to try and curate information for you. So in line with that mission, we’d like to recommend 5 great blogs about serious games and gamification (besides our own of course).

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 23, 2024

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. I’m experimenting with AI image tools to create images for my blog posts. Garvin, Edmondson, & Gino wrote about learning organization dimensions , and one of the four aspects of a supportive learning environment was “appreciation of differences”.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 18, 2010

We’re very excited to announce the availability of Upside Blog iPhone App. This App is designed to make it easy and more convenient for iPhone users to read and interact with posts on this blog. We also plan to create a similar app for our blog for Blackberry and Android phones as well. Upside Blog App.

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ProProfs

JULY 3, 2020

Whether it is about taking a fun quiz to kill some time or learning about a specific topic, quizzes are a great source of knowledge and entertainment. . However, browsing through innumerable quiz categories to find the right quiz can be a little tiring. Top Quiz Categories & Quizzes. Blogging Quizzes. Fun Quizzes.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 30, 2010

By all accounts, the Learning in 3D Blog Book Tour was a resounding success. Books were sold, buzz was created, consulting and speaking engagements obtained and the collective conscious of the learning community was raised in the area of 3D virtual worlds for learning. Click here to learn the details of that book club.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 23, 2024

Unless there’s a follow-up question about an action to take based on the category selected, Example 1 creates a dead end in the branching scenario. That information can help users connect what they learned with the choices they made. Many of my blog posts are based on questions I get from readers.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

I share these links periodically here on my blog. The links in this post include resources from two online events I attended in December: IDEAL (The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility for Learning Conference) and the Learning Guild’s online conference on Video and Visuals for Learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. L&D salaries An Overview of Learning & Development Salaries by Lavinia Mehedințu This is a small-ish salary survey (700 respondents as of 9/12/23), but enough for the author to start sharing some analysis of trends in the gender pay gap and the effects of seniority and education.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 31, 2023

Somehow I missed colleague Jane Hart’s annual survey of top 10 tools for learning ’til just today, yet it’s the last day! So here’s my (belated) list of top 10 tools for learning 2023. I’m using Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery framework for learning here. Share My blog (e.g.

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Integrated Learnings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

We started the Integrated Learnings: eLearning blog last year with the idea of writing simple, but informative, posts about eLearning design and development. Our topics rotate between learning theory refreshers and step-by-step techniques for popular eLearning authoring tools (Lectora, Captivate, Articulate, and others).

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Upside Learning

MARCH 10, 2023

The distinctions I make for the 3 categories are, I think, pretty clear. This includes learning styles, attention span of a goldfish, millennials/generations, and more (references in this PDF, if you care). The last category is misconceptions. This blog was originally published on Learnlets. How do we address them?

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Introductions are different types of examples; they’re not used as a reference about how models work in context, but instead are motivating about why the coming learning is important. As a consequence, there are several sub-categories of scenarios. Tradeoffs The real issue is the tradeoffs in costs and learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I share these links periodically here on my blog. I don’t explicitly think of it this way for writing scenarios for learning, but I do think this concept could be applied to storytelling in training. To test that their goal is concrete, it should fall into one of four categories: win, stop, escape, or retrieve.

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 19, 2009

The same (actually) applies to reading blogs. As Sue Waters pointed out to me about indexing blogs, "people don't use blogs that way" I completely agree with Ken that content seems to stream by and if you miss the stream, it somewhat gets lost later as there's the continuous flood. Get that into eLearning Learning.

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2022

All these trends have increased the role of learning & development talent within every organization, and non-profit is no exception. Organizations implement L&D programs so, employees learn new skills, engage more, and remain productive in their job roles. Learning talent function must focus on various aspects-.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 17, 2008

Categories overlap & aren’t clean distinctions. If it is text, a blog is good. Add “real world&# content by bringing things in from outside (podcasts, blogs, etc.). “Increased engagement = Opportunity for Increased Learning&#. Help connect learning in class to learning outside.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 26, 2024

You can have simulations that aren’t branching scenarios, and branching scenarios that aren’t simulations–but I think this example overlaps in both categories. I’ll write more about that process of creating images in a future blog post. Branching structure This scenario uses a branch and bottleneck structure.

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