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APRIL 14, 2021

When building a learning and development course, there are many factors to consider. Curating the correct content, creating engaging material, and tailoring to the needs of your learners should all be top priorities. But none should be more important than making sure your training aligns with accessibility compliance standards.

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APRIL 17, 2011

It still measures course, content, instructor, and relevancy to the job. Level 2: Learning. This is not just testing the content. He says unless one or more of the learning objectives?knowledge, with a post-test to measure learning for the entire program. Level 1: Reaction. knowledge, skills, and attitudes?have

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MAY 8, 2011

The Learning Circuits Big Question for May is: How do we need to change in what we do in order to address learning/performance needs that are on-demand? Maintaining the status quo is no longer sufficient if we, as learning and development professionals, want to stay relevant to the businesses we serve.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. Set up a Web-based content collaboration site (wikis work great for this). That way you learn as your SMEs learn.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices by Paul on November 24, 2010 in mobile learning , social learning In an article she wrote for Training Magazine in June 2009 called Best Buy’s New Role , Terah Shelton explores Best Buy’s then-new Results-Oriented Learning Environment (ROLE).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices by Paul on November 24, 2010 in mobile learning , social learning In an article she wrote for Training Magazine in June 2009 called Best Buy’s New Role , Terah Shelton explores Best Buy’s then-new Results-Oriented Learning Environment (ROLE).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

My background includes extensive experience in learning, teaching, and facilitation, and I love technology and how its changing our culture. Some of my photography can be seen in local art galleries and online through National Geographic image stock. Enjoy people; embrace life! Properly d. Properly d.

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MARCH 13, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Henry Kingman Learning Experience Designer/PM. That’s how, whether I was designing an eLearning course or managing a blended learning project, I discovered the value of change management. That’s how, whether I was designing an eLearning course or managing a blended learning project, I discovered the value of change management.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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MARCH 29, 2011

The material is being written at an 8th grade reading level and, for the most part, the training content is pretty straightforward. Rather, it has to be learned through experience. Now, experiential learning is great. They can’t really explain how they know, they just do. So, I am sure you see the problem here.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Kristin Ford is Owner and President of PC Training Source, an independent consulting firm that specializes in premier learning industry products and services. Kristin has known Dashe & Thomson for many years and is very excited to contribute a two-part guest post to the Social Learning Blog. Is it content or context?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Mobile learning seems to be creating a lot of excitement in the learning community these days. For example, according to a report published by Ambient Insight Research, the US market for mobile learning products and services reached $958.7 Growing number of mobile learning tools and platforms. million in 2010.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

Whether I’m brainstorming solutions, designing meaningful interactions, or reviewing my content, I’m going to take one extra step to make sure I have the best version possible. My resolution for 2019 as an instructional designer is to always go one step further.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Kristin Ford is Owner and President of PC Training Source, an independent consulting firm that specializes in premier learning industry products and services. Kristin has known Dashe & Thomson for many years and is very excited to contribute a two-part guest post to the Social Learning Blog. Content in context. Beautiful.

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JUNE 17, 2011

The goals of eLearningLearning are to: Collect High Quality Content: Provide a high quality destination that highlights the most recent and best content as defined by the community. Be A Jump Off Point: Serve as a jump off point to the sources of the content. It is an excellent resource. Share your stuff. Participate!

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AUGUST 30, 2017

But increasing learning engagement is easier said than done, especially when your content isn’t exactly a page turner. Planning learning objectives, how to measure ROI, and talking to SMEs are all integral tasks, but how often do we view the bigger picture – stop and smell the roses, if you will.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

At the time, I found this interesting as a jumping-off point for thinking about how “memory engineering” could be leveraged to increase retention of content learned in the workplace. Well, times have changed. Today, you can open a number of social media applications and see what you were thinking and doing in years past.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

One of the greatest challenges organizations face when creating learning and development programs is a lack of engagement from their learners. Fortunately, this is often due not to the content itself, or general employee stubbornness, but rather poorly designed, deployed, and customized learning courses.

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JULY 12, 2011

How Many Accelerated Learning Phases Are There? There are four learning styles, four stages of competence, and a four-level evaluation model. There is also a four-phase learning cycle. There are different ways of thinking about the learning cycle and different numbers of phases. Preparation: Arousing Interest.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

This month, the Learning Circuits Blog is back with its first “real” big question since Tony Karrer took a break from managing the blog. Mr. Betts is the Managing Director for HT2 and his big question for this month is “Does Gamification Have a Role in Workplace Learning? Yes, it does.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

I really enjoy following the learning frontier, reading about and analyzing the latest developments in learning tools and methodologies. Augmented reality has a potential to revolutionize learning because of its ability to overlay helpful information not normally seen by the naked eye onto the objects we view.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Essentially the Web is not just evolving gradually as it absorbs the impact of smartphones and social media; it’s changing so radically that it might be better to look at what’s happening as the birth of an entirely new concept of internet interactivity and learning. Everything else is becoming simply the background content.

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JULY 12, 2011

How Many Accelerated Learning Phases Are There? There are four learning styles, four stages of competence, and a four-level evaluation model. There is also a four-phase learning cycle. There are different ways of thinking about the learning cycle and different numbers of phases. Preparation: Arousing Interest. .

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Last week I was fortunate to attend the Learning 2011 conference, organized every year by Elliott Masie. Mobile Technology: The Future of Learning? ” I think there are some exciting opportunities around mobile learning, but a few obstacles, too. Bill Clinton at Learning 2011 — at least, I think it was Bill Clinton.

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MAY 29, 2012

But not before we asked them to share a few of their favorite stories from the world of learning. Sometimes in the training development or tech writing industry we get very caught up with the content we are communicating and forget about the “form” that supports the “function.” Below are some links definitely worth checking out.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Angry Birds – the game – can certainly be used as a model for eLearning; it has all the attributes that make for effective game-based learning: immediate rewards and feedback, increasingly challenging tasks, focus on action and decision-making. A search for “Angry Bird Walkthroughs” on YouTube returns 18,500 results.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. Set up a Web-based content collaboration site (wikis work great for this). That way you learn as your SMEs learn.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Delicious 113

Dashe & Thomson

JULY 6, 2011

There are people looking at applying the Kirkpatrick model, there are people measuring the use of social learning tools, and there are people talking about something similar to Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method. and his take on using Kirkpatrick’s four levels to create and evaluate social learning. Learning Process.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Microlearning is an emerging paradigm that addresses a learner’s need to receive the content they need, when they need it, and in the appropriate context. As a learning strategy or approach, microlearning delivers short (10 minutes or less), focused training and performance support. Think of it as bite sized. Not a full lunch.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Serious games leverage the playful aspect of games to help learners easily and effectively grasp new content. What are Serious Games? For serious games to be effective they must enable the player to utilize their skills, while adapting to the new skills or information being taught throughout the game.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

I was asked by Wendy Kirkpatrick to remove the copyrighted Kirkpatrick diagrammatic model from my original blog post, How to Evaluate Learning: Kirkpatrick Model for the 21st Century. Learning: To what degree did the learners acquire the intended knowledge, skills, and attitudes as a result of the training? According to Donald L.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

We know it’s critical to make learning content relatable and memorable. Storytelling in L&D. As L&D professionals, we want our training to stick. Yet, achieving that ‘stickiness’ module after module, and program after program, can be challenging.

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MAY 18, 2012

Since my last blog post, AR: Augmenting the Reality of Learning , we’ve probably seen the most hyped augmented reality product in history. Think of the doors this kind of technology could open within the context of learning. Sharing Content – Effortlessly capture things you see and share with friends.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Recent research by ASTD and REED Learning indicates that the top skills desired by Learning & Development departments are measuring and evaluating training. Learning: To what degree did the learners acquire the intended knowledge, skills, and attitudes as a result of the training? corporate culture, participant readiness).

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MARCH 21, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom by Jon on March 21, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Where do the most innovate ideas in learning come from?

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Lecture Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki 134

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? View all posts by Paul → ← Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? Trackbacks/Pingbacks Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog - February 11, 2011 [.]

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