Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Meg is a Senior Instructional Designer of Clinical and Product Education at Intuitive Surgical , a medical device company which makes the da Vinci Surgical System. I hope through this DevLearn series the importance of not only building but nurturing your own Personal Learning Community will jump to the top of your priority list. .

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Learning Rebels

MARCH 13, 2020

The key is helping others understand that as an educational tool, webinars must be created to address the adult learning needs. Because of the circumstances, some businesses are now turning their heads toward delivering their traditional training in a virtual setting. It’s time to dust off the webex and put it better use.

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Learning Rebels

JULY 14, 2014

Educating leadership on learning is difficult, especially if there are preconceived notions out there. When I talk with other L&D people there is a familiar trend they fall into the courageous role by “ begging forgivenes s” More on this in a bit… Admittedly, displaying courage is the toughest part.

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Learning Rebels

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Encourage a “Show Your Work” environment making work educational. Here are Learning Rebel benchmarks for supporting a culture of learning within any workforce: Make learning part of the organization’s strategic success, learning as a strategic thrust platform. Knowledge sharing should be a daily organizational habit.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 16, 2018

Second, I have an idea for a company and for this (and for my career in general), I needed to educate myself on micro-learning, social learning, and the various advancements in those areas. In hindsight, I should have done some reconnaissance and educate myself on current technology trends. What are the components?

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Learning Rebels

MAY 8, 2017

Confusing workplace training with a college education. Regardless if the class is 60 minutes or 3 days, real life application will be the pivot point between training success and failure. Unless it takes place in the Bahamas, people do not want to take part in a 5-day, death by talking head, corporate university.

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 24, 2017

We, as educators in the Adult Learning world, have a responsibility to help our organizations move forward and we are not doing enough to practice this craft. The shift has arrived, and video is King! You may or may not be shocked by this but not enough of us are creating video to help the people in our organizations.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 30, 2017

My mantra, even back then, was – “there has to be a better way” Training was my calling , the issue was how to get educated on the fly? I wanted to help those who were struggling with their day-to-day jobs. These were the days before the interwebs, before twitter, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 15, 2018

You all have heard me say this before… we must continue to educate ourselves. There is so much happening at any given time, and Mark Sheppard shared with us before the conference how to use the backchannel. I like having choices. If we don’t then we are failing ourselves and our business.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 26, 2015

She has 15 years of experience designing learning in corporate training, 5 years as a teacher at the primary level, and 5 years writing elearning and teaching in higher education. Jean has been in the learning business since she began conducting school in the cellar with her dolls and stuffed animals. Ok, I admit it. I’m a learning junkie.

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Learning Rebels

JUNE 10, 2015

We are fortunate enough to be in a media rich, highly connected world and as educators (or learning tour guides, or knowledge curators, or training name of the moment) we should be encouraging each other more to try, and try again. How can we move forward if we are too busy trying not to fail?

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Learning Rebels

APRIL 20, 2016

John Medina of Brain Rules stated, “If you are in education you are in the business of developing minds.” After some time, baby steps, an eye to the four points above, and a bit of positive deviance – the tide will turn. People will begin to have positive thoughts when thinking about training in your organization.

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Learning Rebels

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If we don’t want to be on the outside of the job market looking in, we must set personal learning goals, seek out resources, and dedicate time to self-education. But advice that many in the industry fail to take seriously. This is simply not a “nice to do” or “when I have time” activity any longer. It’s a must-do, right now.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

They demonstrate leadership in all areas of the business by addressing three missing cultural links: Technology education through data Communication, and collaboration Having a North Star connection to people and business results. Organizations that show technology leadership are those that create a culture of technology acceptance.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 7, 2015

EdChat : Education Chat. Gueri11aEd : Traditional education with focus on non-traditional ideas. #Chat2LRN : Chat to Learn. PKMChat : Personal Knowledge Management Chat. Guildchat : Elearning Guild Chat. NT2T : New Teachers to Twitter Chat. SWChat : Social Workplace Chat. OZLearn: Learning in Australia.

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Learning Rebels

JULY 25, 2017

I can hazard an educated guess based on my years of experience. Well, then…The perception from the people in my above example was that training is not the advocate it should be. Training should be for the people, by the people. How does this sad perception of training happen in the first place?

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Bringing learning, education, knowledge, and/or information must first and foremost be about the hearts and minds of the people on the other end. They want people to be the best they can be. Is this rose-colored glasses thinking? Status Quo Sucks, George Carlin. Hearts and minds people. Hearts and minds. Love for what we do.

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Learning Rebels

JANUARY 4, 2016

I personally do not believe there is room for absolutes in the Education/Learning/Training Industry. Kaizen in the Learning Rebel world includes making small tweaks in the information you are holding as near and dear to your heart, and sometimes blowing up the unconscious bias we may have around certain topics.

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