Catherine Lombardozzi recent post Coaching informal learning sparked something for me around online coaching opportunities. In prior posts she identifies the following elements as being needed for informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace: Motivation for learning. A culture that provides access to other people who support learning in a wide variety of ways Easy access to materials that support learning Skills in utilizing electronic tools to manage learning. In this post, she adds to the list that a "learning coach" is also

In preparing for an upcoming series of workshops, I think I’ve landed on another important ingredient… a learning coach.  We can coach ourselves, of course, but many of us benefit greatly from having someone to support our learning. This might involve going to the bookstore (okay, maybe I’m the only geek who does that, but still, it’s a strategy), finding a colleague who can teach or coach on the subject, doing an internet Looking back over recent posts, it starts to become clearer to me what is needed for an informal learning strategy to be effective in the workplace. 

The role of the lecturer coaching ‘Critical Thinking’ is to: Teach the fundamental thinking, reasoning and language abilities that a student needs for academic success. Engage students in the active thinking process. Integrate the development of thinking abilities with the four skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. As students seemed to fear the word “Critical’ more than thinking (tough one, too!), Bean in my team, I would try to include local cartoons, such as LAT (if possible). To improve my coaching or facilitation skills I would explore,

Post from: The eLearning Coach User Interface Design For eLearning – Updated Share this on Linkedin Tweet This! Email this to a friend? Share this on Facebook Share this on del.icio.us Stumble upon something good? The computer user interface is that nebulous space where humans interact with the machine. Many people find this space frustrating because it’s easy to get lost or because the system doesn’t work as expected.

Pedagogical (also called didactic ) techniques and elements surround an experience , ensuring that a participant's time is spent productively. Click for a complete list of entries in Pedagogy and Coaching . Street signs represent real-world pedagogy. In sims, pedagogical elements can include in-game tips/directions , graphs , highlights , forced moments of reflection , bread crumbs , coach/facilitator , background material , and after action reviews (AARs) . Pedagogical elements in real-life range from speedometers and caller ID to mentors, supervisors, or guides . Pedagogy.

This could manifest itself in many ways -- degrees of support, mentorship, coaching, training, sponsorship. Find ways to delegate the repetitive "management work" and find communication channels for your people that you can exploit for coaching, mentorship, guidance, teaching, sponsorship etc. Tags: responsibilities coaching feedback human resources leadershi Leadership has started to become the buzzword in my head recently. I

Post from: The eLearning Coach The Instructional Design Life ...Tags: Today I attended a kickoff meeting to design and build a course that teaches medical personnel about venous access devices (VADs) and how to prevent infections from their use. VADs are those tubes that go into a large vein and hang around to administer fluids or medications.

Think about growing expert communicators, adept coaches, proficient communicators and efficient managers. Robert Dilts in his landmark book, From Coach to Awakener says that coaches address a variety of factors, including but not limited to: Environmental Factors: The considerations of where and when success occurs. To each of these logical levels you can associate a specific kind of leadership; Caretaking and Guidance, Coaching, Teaching, Mentorship, Sponsorship. As a Learning professional, you may be asked to work on a Leadership Development program at some point in your career.

A virtual coach gives customized help to the player. Unlike a Dictionary, Glossary, Wiki, or Instruction Booklet, coaches tend to have personality. Like all pedagogical elements, the virtual coach has to balance giving neither too little help nor too much. good coaching system can dramatically reduce the amount of real coaching necessary to support a simulation They pop up at the right time, either proactively or in response to a question, and give some help. A

Many years ago, I read of some work being done by Valerie Shute and Jeffrey Bonar that I later got a chance to actually play a (very small) role in (and even later got to work with Valerie, definitely world-class talent).  They had developed three separate tutoring environments (geometric optics, economics, electrical circuits), yet the tutoring engine was essentially the same across all three, not domain specific.