ID Reflections

AUGUST 29, 2009

What about the learners and their different learning styles. A good trainer has to take into account different learner types and mould his/her sessions accordingly. A good trainer is flexible, intuitive, moving with the learners. And consistency does not mean the same presentation style all the time, for all learners.

Learning Styles 114

Learning Styles Training Train Analysis 114

ID Reflections

JULY 4, 2010

To enable the trainee/learner to apply as is to real-world situations 4. To enable learners to produce learned behavior with fewer errors, greater speed and under more demanding conditions 5. To help learners generalize beyond the specifics of what is taught 2. To enable learners to act thoughtfully 4.

Instructional 128

Instructional Instruction Training Train 128

ID Reflections

JULY 4, 2010

Why do many organizations fail to enthuse their learners about their e-learning drive? Think of the implementation of an e-learning program as the end of their responsibility, a task to be ticked off on their list for that quarter (the course is out there, learners will go through and performance will improve) 5.

Adoption 137

Adoption Adopt Course PPT 137

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How often do we get to know how the learners are faring once a course has been delivered and they have gone back to their work schedule? Here's an excerpt from the book to give you a feel: Sentence Stems One way to help learners manage the 140 - character limit is to provide them with sentence stems — they need only to complete the thought.

Social Media 166

Social Media Media Wiki Blogging 166

ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2011

I mentioned that Adaptive Thinking that promotes adaptive expertise is what makes us learners, takes us out of our preconceived notions formed by our domain expertise, and allows us to probe and respond to changing situations with greater elasticity. In short, this helps us to deal with complex situations.

Cognitive 136

Cognitive Diversity Training Information Overload Behavior 136

ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning.

Instructional Design 193

Instructional Design Community Enterprise Instructional 193

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

While we would love to think that employees will--seeing the looming complexities and unpredictability of work today--become self-driven, autonomous learners keen to acquire all the skills and knowledge required, this is not what usually happens. If possible, asking someone to provide feedback and coaching would be helpful.

Skills 132

Skills PKM Diversity Training Social Media 132

ID Reflections

MAY 15, 2010

How will you connect with the potential learners? Whose buy-in do you require to ensure that there is post-rollout support provided to the learners? What has the learner analysis revealed? Make sure you get access to the right people and resources. Who can review the content? Who will review or pilot the course?

Storyboard 144

Storyboard Course Develop Skype 144

ID Reflections

JUNE 25, 2014

Many smart employees who have invested time and effort in building their own learning networks are turning to their PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) for help at the point of need. The allure of reduced cost and wide dissemination of courses with the help of technology can blindside organizations to the actual requirements.

PKM 157

PKM OER Diversity Training Trust 157

ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

I Finally Get It--Why Social Networking is so Important What did I learn: The importance of Social Networking and SoMe lie in their ability to help us make sense of the confusing mass of information that bombards us everyday. Similarly, learning shoveled at learners will be ineffective. When should we Collaborate? and Cynefin 13.

Social Networks 120

Social Networks KM Social Network Write Blog 120

ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

It does not “push” information at learners in a pre-defined package but instead allows for selective learning. And this works best for adult learners. Thus, our programs based firmly on these tenets of PS are created after careful and thorough learner analysis, performance gap study and situational/contextual investigation.

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Support Performance Wiki 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While we (L&D) keep talking about complexity and ambiguity and enabling learners to acquire the skills of "learning how to learn", we know that we need to transform and redefine ourselves and our role in the organization to add value to business. L&D can help foster learning agility mindset. And it can be fostered.

Roles 132

Roles Agile Cognitive Attitudes 132

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

If a majority of learners clear the assessment module with 80%+, then obviously the program is successful," would be the typical response. Learners are required to pass, and they pass "when they attempt the assessment." Does the learners' immediate supervisor believe in e-learning as a means of effective training?

Adoption 100

Adoption Adopt VOIP SharePoint 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Working out loud not only helps people to share their "work-in-progress" but also enables sense-making by building a keen awareness of the processes being followed, decisions taken, mistakes made, and learnings thus gleaned. In my mind, working out loud can be one of the means to strengthen organizational learning.

Social Networks 160

Social Networks PKM Organizational Learning Collaboration 160

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Most ID courses start with the content and the learners--both key aspects of effective training design. However, here I found myself starting with the organization first that "house" the learners, so to speak. Thanks to Cammy for helping me to clarify my thoughts.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world? Will we still continue to speak about learning as an activity to be undertaken in order to be effective at work? Only adults doing their work.

Network 202

Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

ID Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2009

Personalized = “Outcome is what the learner desires” 8. Learner empowered = requires effective “self learners” and good knowledge networkers since it involves connecting with and finding expertise 9. Can happen as a follow up to formal learning when the latter has been inspiring enough to drive learners to explore further 12.

Informal Learning 110

Informal Learning Informal Blended Learning Social 110

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Think of the implementation of an e-learning program as the end of their responsibility, a task to be ticked off on their list for that quarter (the course is out there, learners will go through and performance will improve) 5. Thinking that "jazz" can make up for sound instructional strategies and design 5.

Adoption 100

Adoption Adopt Program PPT 100

ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

Learning 2.0 132

Learning 2.0 Blended Learning Social Networks Gartner 132

ID Reflections

JULY 17, 2009

5) What did we do? 5) What did we do?

Project 100

Project Learning Objects Analysis Cognitive 100

ID Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2015

A PLN of diverse individuals not only helps to hold up widely different viewpoints on the same challenge but also broadens and deepens one''s learning. Can someone help me with this?" But remember to pass along the help. In a PLN, everyone is a contributor, learner as well as a teacher.

Network 100

Network Diversity Training Personal Learning Social Networks 100

ID Reflections

APRIL 25, 2009

I am not complaining though because an ideal world where there are no “if onlies” (excuse the use of this non-word) is not conducive to learning or thinking or striving or brainstorming or any of the things that help us forge ahead. If onlies are our challenges and drivers that help us to get “unstuck”.

Big Question 100

Big Question ILT Instructional Design Budget 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The reach and depth of our connections become critical in helping us make sense of our environment and to solve problems. ~ PKM: our part of the social learning contract Creating good content on a platform that lets users (teachers & learners) add context may be the the real killer application in education.

Cognitive 144

Cognitive PKM News Tagging 144

ID Reflections

JANUARY 4, 2010

the power such "conversations" have in helping us to create meaning and see the pattern (refer to: I finally get it--why social networking is so important ) 4. the power such "conversations" have in helping us to create meaning and see the pattern (refer to: I finally get it--why social networking is so important ) 4.

Social Networks 124

Social Networks Confluence Diversity Training Instructional Design 124

ID Reflections

APRIL 13, 2010

A compassionate attitude helps to create the environment where trust can be nurtured. How do we make people realize it is ok to ask for help, to not know, to learn, to feel like an expert at one point and like a novice at another, to alternate between being a teacher and a learner? And the solution is definitely not only tools.

Trust 135

Trust Cornerstone Collaboration Attitudes 135

ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

Sushant Singh Even i am interested to know about the same, can anybody help please. 4) analyze these goals or gaps and see what are the learning interventions that could be used to help buisness units reach goals or fill the gaps. Hope this helps! Comments (12). Prabha Kuksal. there are any. The 3 areas could be:- 1.

Consulting 141

Consulting Social Networks LinkedIn Discussion 141

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is sure to help someone out there the way it helped you. Because you have helped someone to learn something new. Sometimes, it can be something that completely throws you off kilter and makes you rethink…It’s the latter kind that we have to open our minds to accept and truly commit to being a lifelong learner.

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Social Social Networks 140

ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

Because PSS ALWAYS aim to meet only the required need and can be in the form of Help files, Job Aids, FAQs, Forums, Manuals, How-to Process guides, etc. The latter is more aptly met with PSS and needless to say, PSS are always based on the Minimalist Approach. To summarize: 4. When does minimalist work?

Case Study 100

Case Study Performance Support Training Train 100

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Just as it is futile to training learners for the sake of learning, it is equally futile to train them if the conditions are not conducive to performance. Such leaders help people throughout the organization develop systemic understandings. Both the ideas, I felt, are closely linked. It is about fostering learning, for everyone.

Organization 136

Organization Harassment Training Performance Support Mentoring 136

ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2009

I hit the Reply All button without a thought when I had been drilling into learners the importance of using this feature sparingly. An error pointed out in private takes on the connotation of someone genuinely trying to help you overcome your shortcomings. And when offering praise, cc the whole world.” And this has stuck with me.

Trust 100

Trust Communication Exercise Culture 100

ID Reflections

JULY 12, 2009

Content providers will quickly see how SCORM helps implement reusable learning objects. The set of questions below were raised by a friend that triggered of the post that follows: If SCORM is a technical specification, does it interest, content providers, Instruction Designers, Project Managers ?

SCORM 100

SCORM Instructional Design Learning Objects Instructional 100

ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

@ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis, which I have referred to: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Design Micro-Learning Theory 100

ID Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2014

Typically, micro-learning or learning bytes or learning capsules work well as a component of informal learning where the learner pulls what they need to solve an immediate problem. Human beings are intrinsically helpful when given the autonomy and respect. Immediacy : Wherever learners are, they can get any information immediately.

Micro-Learning 222

Micro-Learning Informal Roles Wikipedia 222

ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

Just as the Uber app allows a user to track the route, a learning app should allow the users/learners to see their learning roadmap personalized to their role and growth path. It’s time to acknowledge that the learners are active participants in the system, and not just consumers of courses. The overarching intention is to make better.

Organizational Learning 100

Organizational Learning Course Scanning Community 100

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Social media and open resources like MOOCs will foster an era of self-driven learners who know what they need, where to find it and take their pick. The learners will come with a consumer mindset--valuing what they need and not what is thrust on them. They must reach the users. This requires constant engagement with the community.

PKM 100

PKM Diversity Training Community Communities of Practice 100

ID Reflections

MARCH 7, 2014

A learner can dip in and out of a course taking whichever micro-module fits their need at the moment. Click on the image to see an enlarged version The micro-modules should also lend themselves well to mobile access thereby adding convenience, flexibility and learner control. This should ideally be left up to the learner to decide.

Micro-Learning 192

Micro-Learning Lecture Module Virtual World 192

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2014

Going back to the future work skills mentioned above, there are two aspects to this: Do organizations realize that these are the skills they have to help their employees to acquire? And these involve enabling employees to become better learners, i.e., foster the skills of meta-learning.

Skills 145

Skills Cognitive Performance Support Culture 145