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The OEB Plenary Debate 2020: Is Academic Learning Only for Eggheads?

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I am a proponent of online learning; I have an advanced degree in it and for 15 years my primary work role was evaluating and advocating for the use of educational technologies and alternative approaches to traditional instruction. My introduction to and subsequent support for online learning came from my own graduate-level courses.

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Social Media in Training

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I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Certainly the bigger goal is to help training become less an event and more a process, and to support ways for workers to form communities and interact with one another -- not just with the trainer. Ideas for other activities?

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Crash Course for New Instructional Designers

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This month in Learning Solutions I offer ideas for a "crash course" in learning design for those who may find themselves thrown into the role. Whatever the reason, it happens.

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Maker Party! Show Your Work

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Just bring some samples of your work, or something to perform, and tell us something about it: why it's a passion, how you do it, what you wish others knew about it, how you learned it, whatever. How did you learn to do it? In response to so much bad PowerPoint in our business (L&D) she started Refresher Training LLC.

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And ADDIE wasn't even there to see it.

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There's been lot of talk in Twitterland lately about the usefulness of the ADDIE process model often used in instructional design (much on the theme of whether ADDIE is dead), and the validity/existence of "informal" learning. Training for future use of a skill is pretty much pointless. Sorry, but I forgot."

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bozarthzone - Untitled Article

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I get two kinds of calls from people wanting to "do" e-learning. They are always more interested in buying an LMS they don't yet need (and often don't even really know what it does) than in designing anything resembling effective online training. If your training is adding value, then measure the value it is adding.

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President-Elect Embraces "Collaboration on a Shoestring"

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tools.isn't it good enough for your learning and development department and your company to use these tools? If you want to break down the traditional and artificial boundaries of the learning function within your organization, you can use the web to help do it." Here's what Karl said: ". ov site itself. ov site itself.