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 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. Or what we would call improved performance and employee effectiveness.

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Metrics Kirkpatrick Virtual World Evalution 48

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

In many studies, incentives have been shown to effectively kill creativity. If we need new managers capable of thinking this way than that’s where talent management learning might start. The problem of if-then reward schemes is a narrow focus on the task at hand. reasoning) even a larger reward leads to decreased performance.

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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. For instance – the ubiquitous application of – what I call PowerPointBasedTools has had two effects.

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Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The Dunning-Kruger Effect – 1999). They use whatever real power they have to push you off your working methodology and accept theirs – doubling your efforts by forcing you to learn new ‘formats’ while you are simultaneously solving problems. Thus, their stealth goes undetected except for the inevitable effects on others.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I promised a colleague a week ago I’d share an experience I had producing a mobile learning project for a major airline. So many of us are involved in love affairs with the latest technologies sometimes we forget to brake our enthusiasm and learn after too much money and effort that the latest isn’t always the greatest.

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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

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. And, most vitally, this give us a pretty good look in to the future.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Even when I moved to the corporate world marketing and designing learning, I held this belief in my heart. The crusade to get students to school at the same time to as few destinations as possible is fundamental as an effective way to deliver uniform instruction on the industrial model. And yes, I’m a parent and now grandparent.

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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

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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Articulate Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Cognitive 51

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2012

Into the fray steps the software, Apple’s iBooks Author: “So, the big story is really about how this effects the billion(s) dollar industry of textbook publishing. Put succinctly, in some states, school districts and schools, dinosaurs died and became oil, yet in those same oil-producing states, dinosaurs were domesticated as transportation.

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