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5 Steps to a Successful Blended Learning Strategy

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Keeping in mind that while training departments are using computers to support online training, they haven’t generally made full use of the available technology to provide their workforce with a true “blend” of instruction that gives people some element of control over their learning. Where will discussions, feedback and lessons be hosted?

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Learning Activities that Matter

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In short: Participants create a graphic design of key points learned in previous lessons or previous day. Why this works: This allows groups to collaborate and determine the learning priority of lessons. Debrief: Ask the groups if there were any lessons that other groups described that you had overlooked? Find it Online.

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5 Ways to Use Educational Comics to Enhance Training

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Besides incorporating them into the learning process itself, perhaps have the participants create comics that illustrate the concepts being taught as a way to debrief or reframe lessons. In fact, studies have shown that education featuring comics in lessons not only increases comprehension but also increases learner enjoyment of the course.

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9 Planning Steps for Your Virtual Learning Program

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If you are planning to move to a virtual learning environment, then you’ll want to guarantee the participants are engaged in the session, learning from the facilitator and most importantly, retaining lessons. Include a screencast of the virtual learning platform with instructions as to how to use some of the functions.

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Instructional Design is Not Dead!

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Despite rumors to the contrary, Instructional Design is not dead. . You may have noticed the many articles and blog posts stating that instructional design is dead, and by extension, so is the role of Instructional Designer. The role of the instructional designer has never been more alive and exciting.

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If Your Training Doesn’t Stick, You Need Microlearning

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Not only do you have to instruct them on, say, proper communication techniques, but you must instill in them the importance of why they need to be culturally aware in their conversations in the first place. Then there’s identifying behavior, how someone acts under certain circumstances or pressure, is a sticky-wicket.

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30 Day Brainstorm Challenge – Day 20: Plan B

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My plan for the day was to facilitate my instructional design workshop, get some dinner, do some work and post for the challenge. While this may seem extreme and a comedy of errors that makes me feel like I’m a contestant on Candid Camera, it’s an important lesson of having your Plan B in place. Time for Plan B.

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