InSync Training

JULY 28, 2021

The pandemic, among many of its impacts on the learning and development community, mandated a rapid shift to virtual live learning. The past year’s experience has proven that virtual classrooms are an effective part of an organization’s training strategy.

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InSync Training

MARCH 19, 2019

Without measurable results, it's hard to convince the business community that its learning and development (L&D) offerings are effective. Evaluating a learning program is by far the best way to highlight its value to all business stakeholders. It also bolsters a culture of continuous improvement. Or even necessary.

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InSync Training

JUNE 18, 2019

Having so many ways of saying the same thing is understandably confusing the people not in the learning and development community. I agree that these three terms are often used interchangeably — but not always consistently. I think it’s also confusing to those of us designing, developing, and delivering content every day.

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InSync Training

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I wanted to share more than my personal opinion, so I asked members of our Facebook Virtual Classroom Community of Practice what they thought. I recently posted a blog concerning the optimal class size for virtual training. Facilitation Virtual Classroom - Facilitation Virtual Classroom - Best Practices'

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InSync Training

JANUARY 27, 2017

You may have noticed that I’ve been contributing quite a bit to this series, and you may have seen my name pop up more often in the InSync Community. In the next few months, you’ll be seeing even more of me within this community, as I’ve taken on the role of Curator for the InSync Blended Learning Hub , which launches on March 6.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

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. Communities usually formed under the categories of self-promotion, net-citizenry, common interests, or as an outlet for employers or workers in the marketplace.

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InSync Training

MARCH 10, 2017

InSync training was launching a new community of practice in March – the Blended Learning Hub -- and I wanted to emphasize how InSync Training is a credible expert in all things having to do with blended learning. In early December, I had an idea. To me, it seemed to be a reasonable idea.

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InSync Training

MAY 11, 2017

In my previous blog post , I provided an overview of gamification with two specific goals in mind: Challenging the design community to ground projects in contemporary learning science rather than (or at least in addition to) any given technology.

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InSync Training

JULY 31, 2018

Guest contributor Jenny Holt provides guidance on how to build a sense of community within your department and connects the process back to what we do best: ongoing professional development. Creating unity and trust within your team increases the success of your short-term projects and long-term goals.

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InSync Training

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Throughout this series we have explored social, teaching, and cognitive presence - the key elements within the Community of Inquiry framework. This last installment explores the intersection of these three presences and approaches to measuring the effectiveness of the work we do in the design, development, and delivery of eLearning.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 2, 2017

Learning technologies (EdTech), communities of practice, lifelong learning, and the myriad other great concepts we’ve been hearing about for the last two decades. Welcome to 2017, the year when it all comes together.

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InSync Training

APRIL 10, 2014

The sentence which couldn''t help but draw me in was: The Kentucky Work Ready Communities program boosts high school graduation rates while simultaneously developing the state''s workforce. In the October 2013 issue of ASTD T&D Magazine I read a short article that struck me concerning a workforce development effort in Kentucky.

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InSync Training

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Additionally, you belong to professional communities of practice (COP) like the eLearning Guild , ATD , and the Training Magazine Network. If you’re like me, you are subscribed to dozens of email lists, content newsletters, and newsfeeds about training and development.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 20, 2017

Almost 20 years ago, I started InSync’s first learning community. Once you have constructed your personal learning path , and identified the experts, resources, and websites that support your goals, now it’s time to create a plan that maximizes your learning while minimizing distractions.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

L ast week, we looked at social and community EdTech tools and apps. This week, we continue our series on our EdTech toolboxes by diving deeper into assessment and evaluation tools and apps. The tools that focus on quantifying or qualifying the impact of learning fall into this toolbox compartment.

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InSync Training

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This three-day, in-person learning event highlights some of our most favorite things about our industry: a community of practitioners who believe in collaboration and the transformative power of online learning. With learning legends and rising stars on the presentation agenda, the lessons learned were innumerable.

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InSync Training

JUNE 5, 2015

I’d like to thank the ATD Learning & Development Community of Practice for hosting a Webcast on June 1, when I delivered Blended Learning Instructional Design: A Modern Approach. The audience (over 300 strong in the live event!) was incredibly interactive. I am so thankful to all of the attendees for contributing to the conversation.

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InSync Training

OCTOBER 1, 2015

These tools can be used to build community and continue the learning conversation started in the classroom, or they can be used as a stand-alone “just-in-time” set of resources for training in the flow of work—or anything in between.

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InSync Training

JANUARY 9, 2017

You are curating content, participating in learning communities, and learning to build content using new edtech. If you’re like me, you’re realizing that having a narrow professional focus isn’t an option anymore. Instead, you’re broadening your approach in order to stay current. It's definintely not the job you signed up for, is it?

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InSync Training

APRIL 8, 2015

Blended Learning is a hot topic of discussion in the L&D community. This post was originally written by Sunder Ramachandran on his blog Learning Experiments. Many thanks for sharing. The definitions and perspectives on this theme are wide ranging and vary depending on who you are speaking to.

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InSync Training

MARCH 5, 2015

It doesn’t surprise me to see updates from members of the training community. My morning ritual begins with a review of articles, blog posts, and social media so I can personally keep up with new technologies and emerging best practices in the fields of corporate training and educational technologies.

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InSync Training

AUGUST 8, 2017

Practitioners and experts alike believe that modern learning is blended learning. Gone are the days where events, job aids, or resources stand alone. Ideally, we strive to create learning ecosystems that support our learners whenever they have a moment of need , whether it’s in the classroom or back on the job.

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