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Transforming Classroom to Online: What's the Reality?

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Our halls are full of people here to attend classes. Often they are enjoying the class they’re in. Though I rarely do traditional classroom work now, I’m still around it all the time, as it’s what my co-workers do all day, every day.

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Social Media in Training

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Here are just a few: Twitter -- provide activities that recognize the 140-character constraint Get-to-Know-You, Advance Assessment: "Please tell us your name and the ‘3 keywords’ that represent your mission, philosophy, focus, or priorities."; "Please state the one thing you most hope to get out of this class".

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Can 'Competencies' be Taught?

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Managers soon find themselves sending people off to training classes to learn such 'competencies' as strategic thinking or attention to detail or innovation. They lump together, haphazardly. Consequently, even though designed with clarity in mind, competencies can wind up confusing everybody. But these aren't competencies. These are talents.

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OMG! Control freak much?

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There were ground rules for class, ground rules for discussions, ground rules for breakouts, ground rules for role plays, ground rules for ground rules. Seeing the books in the aggregate brought a huge shock, namely, that typically 1/3 to 1/4 of the text is dedicated to "rules for learners". Team Agreement Templates.

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The New Learning Architect

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It’s the goal of L&D, he says, to build not classes or courses but environments in which people can learn, and those environments can come in several forms. Shepherd argues that learning occurs in several contexts, with formal learning only one card in that deck, but still a useful one.

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Positive Deviance in L&D

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Getting people to class involved a lot of foot-dragging, endless floor-coverage issues, last-minute cancellations, and even threats. All workers were required to be regularly recertified in standard first aid, and we had a terrible time getting this done.

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What I learn from #lrnchat

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It's not a workshop, or a class, but as with Real Life you may find you learn something informally and by accident. 21st century information is going to be messy, and those who can deal with that messiness and the accompanying ambiguity will be ahead of the pack. lrnchat is also, again, a chat. Join us on Thursday nights, 8:30 ET, 5:30 PT.

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