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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Instructional Designer of the Year award is presented to an individual who has developed a learning intervention that demonstrates exceptional instructional design, is innovative and high quality, and has delivered demonstrable performance improvement for learners. She worked creatively, using a number of innovative instructional design techniques and educated and influenced the client along the way. One of Saffron’s senior instructional designers, Stephanie Dedhar, has been named Instructional Designer of the Year at the IT Training Awards 2010! The instructional designer
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
In terms of online learning, this could potentially hamper innovation, though learning opportunities through iTunes seem to be plentiful. The noise about the release of Apple’s iPad has been a bit overwhelming. Were you too busy to read the reviews, analysis and opinions? No problem.
 
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Instructional Designer of the Year award is presented to an individual who has developed a learning intervention that demonstrates exceptional instructional design, is innovative and high quality, and has delivered demonstrable performance improvement for learners. She worked creatively, using a number of innovative instructional design techniques and educated and influenced the client along the way. Saffron Interactive, one of Europe’s leading e-learning, mobile and blended learning companies, is proud to announce that Stephanie Dedhar has been named Instructional Designer of the Year at the IT Training Awards 2010.
 

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Tags: innovatio This month’s big question asks, “In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?” 8221;
When we encounter a new tool or a new concept, we are experiencing technology at the innovation level. At this level, our goal is to see how our new (innovative) views align with current reality. Finally, once we’ve experimented with options and we have a sense of what works in our organization, we begin the process of systematizing the innovation ( UCalgary blogs appear to have largely followed this model). ...Tags: I’ve had many enjoyable conversations (i.e.arguments) about what is/is not suitable in technology adoption. In many instances, it’s a
The Quarterly: Could you tell us about how Google innovates? Eric Schmidt : Innovation always has been driven by a person or a small team that has the luxury of thinking of a new idea and pursuing it. Innovation is something that comes when you’re not under the gun. So, in our McKinsey Quarterly interviews Google’s CEO There are no counter examples.
If there is a single point in the value chain where learning technologists really struggle, it is at the point of figuring out how to get innovations adopted into enterprise practice. Tags: Diffusion of Innovation Researc Just about every person I have ever talked to... ...Tags:
Now we have developed the mural innovation process that enables people to see the potential that is right in front of us but hidden in the “details.” Innovation often occurs at the intersections — of disciplines, of seemingly unrelated streams of knowledge.  Looking “back,” we can see what led up to the innovation — in Engelbart’s case, bringing together multiple streams At the Future of Talent retreat in Tiburon, Eileen Clegg unveiled an illustrated timeline of co-evolution during Doug Engelbart’s lifetime. The graphic
Tags: Innovatio Sir Tim Berners-Lee, on the twentieth anniversary of his invention of the web, gives a 16-minute TED talk on the future. Link data = everything is connected to everything; don’t hide the connections. Relationships to the level of mysticism.
To help organizations understand this process of how an innovation (new technology) is adopted among members of a group, researcher Everett M. Rogers is the author of the well-known book, “Diffusion of Innovations.” In his book and research, Rogers describes the characteristics of an innovation that makes it attractive for a group to adopt. First, he defines the acceptance of an innovation among a group as a diffusion of an innovation. Helping an organization to adopt a new technology is not easy. Often resistance is encountered and people become frustrated.
Tags: innovatio Jon Husband sent me the link to short post by John Seely Brown, John Hagel, and Lang Davison on The Collaboration Curve. Everybody knows about network effects: the value of a network increases exponentially with the addition of each new node. ( Metcalfe’s Law .)
Lots of innovative ideas popped up. Tags: informl innovatio This afternoon eight of us took part in an online discussion convened by Nancy White for people who were disappointed not to attend VizThink this year. We had a grand time using a shared white board in Vyew and a conference call service we Skyped into. Great conversation about making graphic facilitation
Tags: innovatio Great article in the NY Times about student blogging at MIT. It helps prospective students get a feel for the place before applying. Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in official messages and statistics than in first-hand narratives and direct interaction with current students.