Wonderful Brain

MARCH 27, 2014

An entire industry has been built around PowerPoint (by example) as the foundation for programs like Articulate. And the tide is with them since money flows downhill from big corporate enterprises and their subordinate constituencies. Better, faster, cheaper.

Design 64

Design Courseware Instructional Design Mashups 64

Wonderful Brain

JULY 23, 2011

Very apropos as an example of the fallout from management that pays for our services and then undermines our ability to get the job done the way we know it should be. Even more maddening is the person, team, or organization that attempts to change our minds about the very expertise for which we were contracted to deliver.

Taxonomy 61

Taxonomy Portfolio Consulting Expertise 61

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Simulations: For example: Decision Making > On point, real time type action –oriented Sims with feedback loops for self-correction. Mid Level Interactive Techniques – as Guided Practice. Scenarios: For instance: Replication of ‘Office Events,’ Selling, Soft Skills, Application Use (Step by step w/correction).

Diversity Training 66

Diversity Training Gamification Flash to HTML5 Conversion Metrics 66

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Example: After the introduction of a new financial product in the U.S., One caveat; there is often a need to bring in a consultant as a change agent to not only develop the systems needed to make KM work smoothly but to side-step internal politics that often obscure a clean shot at a great implementation.

Knowledge Management 92

Knowledge Management KM Knowledge Management 92

Wonderful Brain

MAY 17, 2011

5. Can the consultant utilize tech support directly or through, by example, a manager. Is the hardware, software, files naming protocols, file saving protocols, accessible printers, available, all demonstrated on the first day to allow for a rapid ramping up. 4. What is the protocol for phone and email usage.

Consulting 51

Consulting Harassment Training Server Juice 51

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Here’s a real example. What we found was that in more than 90% of the cases, some clever or talented employee had a viable answer. This would be added, after tagging, into the course for learning and smart help feature as well. A young mother approaches the ticket counter at John F.

Simulations 64

Simulations Emergent Change Policies 64

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2014

However these students are now our employees and need to be convinced by example learning can be made meaningful respecting the ways they want to, and best can learn. Unfortunately many youngsters get patterned and adapt attitudes that, even as adults carry a distaste for learning not in their preferred mode. The question to consider?

Courseware 62

Courseware Social Networks Attitudes Instant Messaging 62

Wonderful Brain

JUNE 5, 2011

Provide One Example Of An Observable And Positive Outcome. This is especially critical as we move to social media where technology to deliver learning on demand, including mLearning follows the learner around 24/7. What is management prepared to do to encourage participation which by design might become an intrusion on ones private time?

Performance Support 73

Performance Support Performance Blended Learning Compliance Training 73

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Take apart Articulate for example and try to make it do something not designed into the template structure. The freedom to build learning in a non-contextual or inductive way has been pushed aside to purely deductive and linear development.

Flash 45

Flash Templates HTML Learning 45

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 11, 2012

Here’s an example of, at least for me, the best kind of informal learning. One might be told to look elsewhere for examples and so on, but nonetheless it’s scripted. My wife and I recently saw Woody Allen’s terrific film, “Midnight in Paris.”

Learner 56

Learner Moveable Type Movie Music 56

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 3, 2011

One, as I mentioned would be the further disintegration of the single expert or limited sources of material accepted as gospel and at face value: e.g., courseware that teaches negotiation strategies for example. It’s a real respect or an accounting for learners who apprehend information differently.

Brain 51

Brain RSS Cognitive Comparison 51

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Overall, results were measured by the number of courses that made it from a facilitators guide to the LMS at the lowest possible costs measured against production hours, stock photography purchases and additional matter—music or more robust narration for example.

Articulate 51

Articulate Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Cognitive 51

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 11, 2011

In other words, anyone can learn, by example, Articulate or Adobe Connect to develop credible learning. What we have right now are courses (and in that big bucket I include webinars, collaborative learning models, synchronous chat, etc.) constructed using the democratic tools of design.

Corporate eLearning 77

Corporate eLearning Flash to HTML5 Conversion Pinnacle Courseware 77

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Watches are a good example. Take for example kitchen appliances, some electrified, and others ergonomically designed honoring human anatomy and its limitations. Clothing and shoes another. I believe it’s a betrayal of the modernist ideal to replicate a style only to permit its planned obsolescence.

Design 40

Design Culture Quality Director 40