Performance Learning Productivity

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Will the App Become the New Classroom?

Performance Learning Productivity

(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. Knowledge was held by the few and education was deeply entwined in the oral tradition. Rote learning was the way to get ahead. Rote learning was the way to get ahead.

Classroom 100
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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

Learning can only be managed by the individual in whose head the learning is occurring. But they can’t manage the learning process for you. One of which is “if learning is managed by the learner, what will the technologies that support her look like in the next 3, 5, 10 years?” It is this. That’s down to you alone.

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70-20-10: Origin, Research, Purpose

Performance Learning Productivity

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. He has been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010).

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

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These turbulent economic times have not been kind to two of the large publishers of catalogues and journals - Reader's Digest and Learning Tree International. Learning Tree has been around since 1974. Learning Tree International's Approach Learning Tree International recently published its F3Q09 earnings. million ($1.5

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

Performance Learning Productivity

The training bubble chapter starts by discussing our reliance on formal driver education and successful completion of a driving test as measures to ensure drivers are equipped to safely navigate our various nations’ roads. Haven’t we, as professionals in the field of human learning and performance, learned anything ourselves?

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

Performance Learning Productivity

Despite, or possibly because of, his own irregular early education he focused on learning as an important activity in life. Shaw and Work-Based Learning I recently came across Shaw’s quote about sensibility and his tailor again in Joseph Raelin’s book ‘ Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace ’.

Metrics 186
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70-20-10: Origin, Research, Purpose

Performance Learning Productivity

Calhoun Wick Cal is deeply experienced and knowledgeable in the area of workplace learning. He been studying and supporting it for many years and is co-author of the highly acclaimed Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results (Pfeiffer, 2010).

Research 176