Sticky Learning

JULY 21, 2009

In an earlier post on Informal Learning I made the observation that social networks allow people to create their own villages of learning. BUT, as formal learning became the dominant mode, informal learning became to be seen as something less, not as good, unable to be tested by examination in the same way as formal learning.

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Sticky Learning

MAY 12, 2010

I'll give you a bit of a summary in this post and will provide a link to my Twitter feed for the conference, I think that will help to flesh out how I found some of the sessions! Participants were shown in real time the usefulness of much of the technologies (it certainly wasn't a lecture with only one-way information transfer!)

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Sticky Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The tool is named Design with Intent for a reason, it seeks to provide a way of designing " to influence or result in certain user behaviour". For example, providing users with feedback to check their intent before committing, ie "Did you mean.?'. What does the Design with Intent approach look like?

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Sticky Learning

MARCH 21, 2010

Following the instructions provided, I got myself a trolley, put my earphones in and pressed play. I could imagine real benefits in providing a new employee with an MP3 player and a recording then asking them to follow all the instructions as they move around their work site.

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Sticky Learning

JUNE 12, 2012

I really wanted to encourage the audience to see learning design as just a subset of design generally and doing do provides us with an opportunity to borrow tools from the design profession and then mix them with traditional L&D tools. Design Thinking. Above are three tenets of Design Thinking. Where to from here?

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Sticky Learning

JUNE 12, 2012

I really wanted to encourage the audience to see learning design as just a subset of design generally and doing do provides us with an opportunity to borrow tools from the design profession and then mix them with traditional L&D tools. Design Thinking. Above are three tenets of Design Thinking. Where to from here?

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Design Learning Voice Ideas 40

Sticky Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The people I follow find links to articles and research that I'd never come across, I can't always find time to read it on the spot so I save many links to my Delicious page (social bookmarking site) for later (and to provide others with access to all the links and sites I've found interesting). Twitter keeps me current.

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Sticky Learning

JUNE 16, 2009

This quote builds from a discussion that learning and learners are at a stage that is beyond a 'simple' delivery of information/knowledge/skills approach. This blog itself, in some measure. This blog itself, in some measure. In this instance the lesson is simple, successful learning design can draw influences from many fields.

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Sticky Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Permission Learning , Fish are the last to recognise water , Breaking the learning drough t , Informal learning - it's not new ). In my post, " Permission Learning " I looked at one angle on encouraging uptake and usage of informal learning such as social media. Where are we at?

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Sticky Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

Too often there is too much clutter on slides overloading the brains ability to focus on what is important, indeed once overloaded it is likely that no information will be retained, so less is actually more. Finally Garr provides pages of examples of great Slide Samples that illustrate the principles outlined throughout the book.

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