Living in Learning

JANUARY 4, 2011

Moments of learning need are converging with the need for flawless performance and that convergence is happening in the work context – not the classroom and not on-line with e-learning. It requires a willingness to turn loose of some training traditions and embedded expectations that are rapidly losing the race with the velocity of business.

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Living in Learning

JUNE 4, 2010

Social Learning is so simple a caveman can do it.but not if he has to facilitate a virtual classroom event. We are way beyond campfires and cavemen with social learning when we inject a plethora of technology into the mix. Call it Confusion 2.0.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

The bear’s classroom is a hundred-foot diameter circle that doubles as their workspace. Our learner’s “circus ring”, defined by the classroom, is where they demonstrate proficiency either by doing something successfully or by passing a test of one sort or another. Remember, the classroom IS the workspace. Training complete!

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Living in Learning

APRIL 19, 2010

Unfortunately, we cannot realize these outcomes from the classroom or because of on-line training; rather they manifest downstream from our training efforts. Are we spending our time, resources, and energy in the right place? I am not convinced we are, and as a result, human performance will not be widely sustainable.

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Living in Learning

JULY 24, 2009

Declining training budgets, classroom utilization & attendance, and increases in incomplete e-learning courses are but a few indicators we all see today. As training organizations, we have mastered the art of classroom and on-line design, development and delivery. Does that mean classroom training is dead?

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Living in Learning

JULY 12, 2009

The velocity of learning has no choice but to keep pace, and we are not going to keep pace by delivering learning in the classroom or via e-learning solutions alone. Formal training programs, whether live classroom or self-directed e-learning, typically contain learning objectives and often assessment of knowledge transfer.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 8, 2009

Some aspects of on-boarding and new hire orientation programs are most effective in a live classroom setting. Implications abound that our approach to learning discovery must expand to include the downstream work context in order to inject the necessary threads of continuity that extend beyond the classroom.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

Obviously, the aggregate is not limited to classroom or on-line venues we depend on to deliver formal training. In that post, I shared the moments of learning need that our learners will confront both inside an outside of the classroom. Learning is not shifting into the work context – it is catching up. See Figure 1.2). Figure 1.2.

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Living in Learning

JULY 20, 2009

Regardless of when you first experienced it or how it was delivered, the shift was on, and a huge transition of traditional classroom training underwent a retrofit to any of several electronic formats. My first exposure appeared on the scene as computer-based training (CBT) back in the 1980s. What changed?

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Living in Learning

JULY 31, 2009

It is very true informal learning is dramatically increasing, and it is true that the increase is taking place outside of classrooms and online learning venues.

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Blended Learning Training Train Instructional Design 100

Living in Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

To cover those unplanned moments of learning need, our jobs extend beyond the training role to that of supporting informal learning downstream from formal classroom or online transactions. Our design must consider tactical application in work context conditions beyond what we may be hard-pressed to simulate in the classroom.

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Performance Support Performance Training Train 100

Living in Learning

MARCH 19, 2013

Infographics seem to be pretty popular these days. The good folks at OnlineUniversities.com sent this one focusing on technology use in our schools. Some interesting numbers and leaving no doubt technology integration into education is only increasing.

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Living in Learning

JUNE 26, 2009

The work context is foreign thinking to many designers because their predisposed target for training solutions are either in the classroom or on-line…or a blend of both. Those skills are outside of the traditional ADDIE mindset. Neither of those destinations have anything to do with where the learner works.

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Budget Blended Learning Social Networks Instructional Design 100

Living in Learning

JULY 4, 2012

For that last few days I have been contributing to a thread on the eLearning Guild’s network group on LinkedIn. The topic that has been hotly debated, trashed, twisted, modified, and/or exalted is none other than ADDIE.

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Instructional Design ADDIE eLearning Consultant Consulting 202

Living in Learning

AUGUST 21, 2012

Two-thirds of all new job in the U.S. require post-high school education. With the rise in high school and college drop outs, the United States is scrambling to keep the attention of its students and develop a positive way to keep them involved.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

Countless definitions of informal learning exist, and from what I can see, they are all consistent in application – learning that takes place outside of formal learning venues like training in the classroom or online (e-learning). Okay, we have completed pre-work – the classroom event is complete, and what do we do next? See Figure 1.2

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Instructional Design ADDIE Blended Learning Design 170

Living in Learning

JUNE 28, 2012

I fear the L&D function.or Training.if you choose by another name, are locked into a paralysis of tradition. Tradition yields comfort and familiarity. Comfort and familiarity yield resistance to change…and in some cases even recognition that there could actually be a “change” that offers a viable alternative.

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Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Maybe it’s classroom-based or maybe it’s on-line, maybe even blended. Changing Our Approach – Shifting the Paradigm – Surviving. The battle we must fight is overcoming the hammer/nail scenario that every performance gap is a training problem; hence has a training solution.

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