bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I'm looking especially at the rise of new tools for user-generated images and video: “L&D is great at creating and delivering content. This month's Nuts and Bolts column is the first in a series updating ideas around using social media for learning.

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bozarthzone

JUNE 11, 2013

For T & D, a willingness to learn from what workers share can help to reveal where training issues exist, provide artifacts that can be repurposed as training content, and help make workplace training more relevant and real-world based.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you're there, join me Wednesday for a Morning Buzz session on social learning, on Thursday for breakout sessions "What Managers and Executives Need to Know About Social Learning" and, with Kevin Thorn "DesignBoarding: Leveraging Good Treatments for Your Content".

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 8, 2010

A challenge with writing a book about technologies—particularly those that are continually morphing and evolving – is keeping content as up-to-date as possible. Many thanks to those who have preordered Social Media for Trainers or purchased it for Kindle. Since the book went to press several things have changed: 1.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 27, 2009

The result: Critical points are lost in the mass of content, or the speaker is rushing at the end to get to what s/he really wanted to say. Often in coaching presenters I watch them approach their content as if they were 8th graders assigned to give a report on their "topic".

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bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2011

eLearn will continue to publish content for the higher ed audience but will expand material for those involved in workplace training, instructional design, and performance support. He regards professional development and lifelong learning as an obligation for any practitioner in any field. She is not a schoolmarm with a ruler.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 13, 2009

It's based on the great "Frog Guts" high-school-biologyg simulation, so be warned about the content. Articulate's Tom Kuhlman offers this example of an e-learning tutorial created with PowerPoint. For those who missed the session, Cammy Bean was kind enough to offer a concise recap on her "Learning Visions" blog.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 11, 2010

[This is not to oversimplify the other problems here, including the evidence that no one ever thought to ask even one potential learner to try the material out, or that much of the training content, like charge object hours, was relevant only to a fraction of the target audience.] Write the right objectives.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background." See the whole article for ideas on ways of better equalizing participation.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Content seemed less and less focused on anything related to training and learning, some of the freelance contributors clearly knew little about what they were discussing, and there seemed to be a widening disconnect between the interests of readers, who paid for the subscriptions, and the content catered to the advertisers, who paid the big bucks.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

A link on Twitter caught my eye this morning: "5 Hallmarks of Good Homework" , Much of the content is applicable to L& D (make assignments relevant, have a purpose, that kind of thing). If you're interested in workplace learning I encourage you to take a look.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Start by finding a way out of the static-content box and into an engaging treatment that invites application rather than regurgitation. Want to make e-learning " better than bullet points "? Here, for example, are two ways of approaching an art history lesson.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

How about the example in this post: relevant, or distracting?) --Boring content is no excuse for boring training. --The --Irrelevant or cute art, graphics, animations, and colors only distract the learner; they do not enhance the training by "adding visual interest".

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bozarthzone

MARCH 9, 2008

Based on the "Hollywood Squares" game, this was developed for a new-hire orientation program both as a way to cover fairly dry content as well as helping staff recognize people they'd need to know to both "get around" and "get along" in the office. (I

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

As both a review and means of formative assessment, conduct an A-Z Summary of past class content, live or webinar session, etc. Ask each participant to tweet one thing they’ve learned.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2008

Next go round we may emphasize even more the need to incorporate games as they relate to content, not just as filler, I also see that we may have given the wrong impression about something: there's a comment in the lower right quadrant about self-paced learning, which we didn't discuss at all and certainly weren't casting aspersions toward.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2008

So how often does this happen?

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

For instance: At his manager's request I provided an e-learning/technology resistant colleague -- someone with whom I need to remain collegial -- with a free login to a suite of commercial e-learning courses relevant to content the trainer taught. The university, the faculty teaching it, or the learners enrolled in it?

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