Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Nevertheless, the more I learn how companies capture and leverage their intellectual property, the more disheartened I become. I can remember lecturing graduate educators that schooling started when one man stood beneath a tree and told stories to his Grecian disciples who sought to learn. A Flash History of Knowledge Management.

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Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2011

What can we learn from the methods used to develop curriculum from the academic and corporate sides of the street? In this comparison we can draw come conclusions and discover ways to enhance the integrity of the processes and the resulting knowledge development. Click here for the Improving Performance White Paper.

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Wonderful Brain

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Now we have the technological capacity to deliver learning to anyone in the learning style to which they best respond across multiple platforms irrespective of time and geography. With the gate down learning designers can roam far and wide (and deep) to match content, to methods of communication to outcomes.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 15, 2011

The Charter School – TEP, The Equity Project – makes the case that paying teachers a substantial salary, somewhat on par with (my words here) what a high level Instructional Designer or Learning & Development leader earns, will improve student test results. Should there be a. This isn’t a brand new concept.

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Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s been a while since I’ve written to my learning blog – for those who have followed me and others curious – I’ve been working on the marketing side of things for a bit. Firstly, the line between a learning designer and learning developer has been eradicated. So, where is the benefit.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 6, 2011

For those whose responsibility means creating learning in any of its forms we have an audience we must reach.The inner critic should always be at work. If you regard making learning ‘products’ that deliver knowledge, skills or behaviors that infuse performance change in others you had better question every decision.

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Wonderful Brain

MAY 18, 2012

Too often, I visit learning that is frankly weak even if it has all the requisite objectives, structure, and guiding scaffold, e.g. ADDIE by example. Whether in Captivate, Articulate, or a full-blown Flash/HTML course too many learning experiences are dry to the mind, dull to the eye and dead to the ear. But try to stick to type.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 11, 2014

More so than in other efforts learning demands a careful balance of content and context. Moreover, it’s not the pacing nor structure of events nor even the implied threat the learning or training is a job requirement. Traditional learning and development is about pushing out information. Not dismiss, just set them aside.

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Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 30, 2012

And in my many years building learning, whether facilitated instruction or elearning it’s a cardinal rule that instructional designers need to know many aspects of their target learner’s personality traits. So what would a learning solution look like if it were built to an engineer’s specifications? Preview and review experiences.

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Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2012

When you desire higher order learning; that is information that actually teaches beyond mere recall, then how you design and what software you select for development define your expectations most clearly. Low-Level Learning Cheats the Learner. It’s highly seductive, relatively cheap in price and learning overhead.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 26, 2012

Let’s face it; anyone who has read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs bio, or had prior knowledge of SJs commitment to establishing, protecting, and defending the vision and personality of Apple learned what an oath of fealty to branding means. This whole scenario brings back the idea of corporate culture.

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Wonderful Brain

APRIL 3, 2011

About RSS Subscribe: RSS feed Wonderful Brain All Things Considered Important in Learning and Design Getting Closer to Bond, James Bond Posted on v, April, 2011 by Rich 0 I don’t believe it’s a secret that information design is gaining traction in the learning world.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 11, 2012

There seems to be a revival of interest about informal learning. No matter how the information is presented, gathered or used it appears the single best notion is that it was unintentional and/or secondary to the main thrust of what is or was to be learned. Let me suggest we might think of informal learning as ‘Ad Hoc.’

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Wonderful Brain

AUGUST 28, 2011

Learn ‘right now’ material for the most contemporary and in demand employment sector, get educated or certified fast and go get a job. Because learning starts with simple core material, virtually guaranteeing success, formerly ‘anti-students’ will hang on as their achievement becomes habitual. My prescription is very simple.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Malcolm Gladwell was discussing, as a point of departure about unintended consequences, the development of the Norden Bombsight, considered by its inventor that, by its precision, would limit unnecessary deaths of innocents in Allied wartime bombardments. So a double yecch, right? Clearly an unintended consequence of obsessive madness.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2012

And where will teachers get the energy and time to organize and design and develop unique interactive texts. Schools of education are totally in the Stone Age here so don’t expect teachers to experience development techniques to help them become instructional designers. Even with the relative simplicity of the tools.

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Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

If we need new managers capable of thinking this way than that’s where talent management learning might start. When companies speak of talent management they still, in most cases, make distinctions among the types of employees who earn or receive the types of learning that prepares them for one role or the other. The answer is yes.

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Wonderful Brain

APRIL 11, 2011

It’s no secret that coming from leadership positions in public and corporate education I am very critical of substandard learning; ‘e’ or otherwise. So I ask, where have the learning leaders in major corporations gone? Rapid e-learning tools don’t offend me – they are the hammers and nails of production.

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