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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

classroom learning; we’re seeing it again now with informal learning v. Experienced practitioners will likely be more interested in the information around informal and social learning as well as the excellent profiles of several successful learning architects. We saw it with eLearning v.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 27, 2009

I see lots of good-presentations-gone bad, often due to the speaker trying to put too much information into the available time. They visit Wikipedia and Google and clip art galleries to amass piles of information, factoids, job aids, video clips, and PowerPoint shows, then try to compress it into a 75-minute session.

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bozarthzone

JUNE 11, 2013

It surfaces informal and social learning to help make it visible to the organization and and management, whereas often now it is only opaque." And: showing what we’re doing -- narrating our work in a public way -- work helps make learning more explicit. Join me today, June 11, 2 pm ET, for " Show Your Work ", a webcast hosted by ASTD.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 18, 2012

Chapters open with questions, which provides a nice advance organizer for the information to come. The author has called in some big guns in terms of expertise, with Alicia Sanchez providing a chapter-length case study from Defense Acquisition University, and a chapter on virtual reality games from expert Koreen Olbrish.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Wearables will inform us about everything from nutrition to our moods: It’s an exciting time for L&D: Where do you see L&D going? We’ll see bureaucracy and bureaucratic structures fade away: The employment contract will change. People will be more involved in part-time, self-employed, contractor work.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 9, 2016

Some post wrong information, but it’s caught and corrected. There’s fun and energy around conversations. Master trainers emerge: Some commenters try to game the system but are mostly shut down by the other trainers.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2010

There's been lot of talk in Twitterland lately about the usefulness of the ADDIE process model often used in instructional design (much on the theme of whether ADDIE is dead), and the validity/existence of "informal" learning. I saw it all hit overlap this week in 2 separate encounters with service employees.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 27, 2009

To extend last week's post on who owns information, how about this: Monty Python put free videos on YouTube, in better quality than the bootlegged ones -- and sold 23 THOUSAND PERCENT more DVDs

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bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2010

And today Jay Cross added to the discussion, using the word "hijack" in terms of both what happened to elearning and, now, what we're seeing with the concept of "informal learning". I agree with my colleagues but would like to twist the conversation to why the hijacking keeps taking place.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Where can they get more information and help? -"Ask Provide a cliffhanger. Set up a curiosity gap. Find stories by asking questions of SMEs: Where do people get this wrong? What do people want to DO? Ask your experts to think out loud. Use the words they SAY, not the words they write.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

21st century information is going to be messy, and those who can deal with that messiness and the accompanying ambiguity will be ahead of the pack. It's not a workshop, or a class, but as with Real Life you may find you learn something informally and by accident. Sequential, linear thinkers tend to have a hard time following it.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

It's the internet, and you can't both share information there and really expect it to be 'private'. I'm reminded of the time years ago when Ted Turner, blasted for announcing that he would be colorizing old Hollywood classics, reportedly replied, "The last time I checked, I owned those movies." Like it or not, it was his to do.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 6, 2008

It's an instant first-aid reference always with you on your phone, with additional screens for your own emergency medical information (link to your Dr.'s office, your emergency contacts, your preferred hospital, your allergies). This is the "Pocket First Aid & CPR Guide" from Jive Media LLC.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 2, 2009

Thanks to Techpower's Tony Karrer for including the Bozarthzone blog on his list of sources for eLearning Learning It's "a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning."

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bozarthzone

JUNE 7, 2009

Briefly: There's a lot of interesting literature showing that resistance ties to a number of factors, including personality type (explorer), view of self as instructor (to impart information or guide learning, work roles, and view of technology (enabler or interference).

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

ask yourself, if it's good enough for a president-elect to deliver messages and information via social media and Web 2.0 Obama's team understood and embraced the possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking strategies. Here's what Karl said: ".

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Another example: I used to belong to a vibrant,dynamic community of workplace trainers who gathered formally once a quarter, and informally at other times, with the stated goal of improving their practice. What could be useful learning just becomes more work.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Pintura: Art Detective " from Eduweb asks learners to evaluate, synthesize, and apply information rather than just memorize. The first is the typical bullet-points approach; the second, an interactive mystery about a painting found in an attic. " Composite image from " Better than Bullet Points ".

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

We were provided with only the most general information about what to expect from the surgery and during recovery. Discussion: What evidence do we look for to confirm our understanding of the performance problem? How often do we treat symptoms versus performance problems? Prepare your learner and others.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2009

For one thing, the taxonomy invites evaluating everything after the fact, focusing too heavily on end results while gathering little data that will help inform training program improvement efforts.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2009

Debates have been long and often spirited, and while I have not always found it all useful (too much parsing of semantics, too many side visits to politics last fall) it did keep me informed about current interests in the training field and what practitioners were really working on (as opposed to what the media often report).

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

tools to support instruction as well as inform formative and summative evaluation. Certainly the bigger goal is to help training become less an event and more a process, and to support ways for workers to form communities and interact with one another -- not just with the trainer. But there are plenty of strategies for using Web 2.0

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Take a lesson from the corgi in helping to inform your work. We need to give people access to mentors and communities with good workers to emulate. Many L&D practitioners are connected to organizational HR offices.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 11, 2010

She included important information (they are hard to see in the ground cover) and offered some helpful tips (don’t tease). She did intend to help Max “understand” (learning) but she didn't specify actual performance. She tried to make the snake training meaningful and engaging. She did not read PowerPoint slides to Max.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2008

If you must undertake Level I evaluation, try to find something that will give you more meaningful information than "4.5" Well, for those who believe that the online experience suffers due to lack of eye contact and body language, look at this screen again: are people interested and engaged? ratings with no explanation.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Perhaps something else would better meet your needs at informing both your formative and summative evaluation processes. If you've been led to believe there's only one approach to evaluating training, try Googling around for Stufflebeam, Brinkerhoff, Stake, and Scriven. And there are others, so keep Googlin'.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 18, 2008

The Set Transparent Color option is available for bitmap pictures that don't already have transparency information. (Make these changes in an animated GIF editing program, and then insert the file again.).The It's also available for some, but not all, clip art."

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