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An Instructional Design Toolkit

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We’re sharing some of our favorite instructional design techniques here in this toolkit to support new instructional designers or “old” ones who want to sharpen their saw (pun completely intended). Conrad Gottfredson and Bob Mosher provided us with a really useful framework for performance support in their 5 Moments of Learning Need.

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Pay it forward. Be a mentor.

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From an instructional design and performance development perspective, being a mentor allows a seasoned professional to expand his or her skills by creating an opportunity to step back and see a bigger picture. These are all higher-order activities that often require support. When you mentor, you’re teaching and guiding.

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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized. The entire organization is engaged in facilitating and supporting learning, in the workplace and outside the workplace. drug development in pharmaceutical companies). The CLO, or HR, or a training department controls the resources for learning.

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Which came first: Agile or Culture?

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We’ve found that the longer we practice LLAMA (the Lot Like Agile Management Approach, designed for learning & development projects), the more Agile-supportive our culture becomes, so Agile becomes even more efficient, earns more team buy-in, and therefore influences our culture even more.

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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart

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Rapid development tools allow the fast and easy creation of new elearning programs, and organizations can choose from a variety of off-the-shelf libraries containing thousands of courses for very low cost. Smart learning includes a myriad of digital education and support tools that adapt to the individual’s needs in the moment.