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RETHINKING THE RAZOR “ILT HAS THE SHELF LIFE OF MILK” or an INTRODUCTION TO Instructor Led Interactive Learning (ILIL or Live Action Learning)

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Over the thousands of hours of instruction I have delivered, no matter how exciting or meaningful the material, or how competent if not (perhaps, a-hem) charismatic I might have been, once I was gone, learners were on their own. Even good references and notes made and organized, or I had provided, became relics of the event.

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TAMING INFORMATION OVERLOAD BEFORE IT DEVOURS

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Not too long ago we needed design tools like an artist’s palette demands a variety of colors; both to provide many ways to communicate both cognitively and emotionally. With the gate down learning designers can roam far and wide (and deep) to match content, to methods of communication to outcomes.

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TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

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Diminishing the overplayed hand of the unions to level the playing field where mediocre and superlative instructors are paid equally based on years of service and graduate credit hours for courses having no bearing on instructional quality. Any psychometrican can compose, scale, and provide weight with regard to the value of these traits.

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5.1 Reasons How and Why to Build Learning with Social Media

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Using social media (SM) to prepare material for instructional design, courseware and webinars and such is the flip side of the same coin that encourages social media as intake media. We read a lot about using SM to learn, but how about to build? Here are 5.1 reasons to build learning via SM. A Social Collective.

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SCENARIOS ARE MINI DRAMAS…NOT A GLORIFIED Q & A.

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Providing a visualization of a realistic environment is essential. The basic rules of instructional design should include how to use images in scenarios. Too many volumes and guides teaching instructional design relegate scenarios to just another technique to be trotted out in a few circumstances.

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10.2 Strategic Ways to Ensure Learning Begets Performance Improvement

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Further, the more likely instruction can be well designed to achieve the intended outcomes. While we can all agree a yardstick is required, we often have a hard time decoding points A and B, a decision provided by the business identifying current and preferable conditions. Provide One Example Of An Observable And Positive Outcome.

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Revolution or Evolution?

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I believe we agree that changing corporate learning and school-based instruction will require more than pilot programs all based on some version of what currently passes for learning delivery methodology. It’s only a revolution that will fundamentally redress the debilitating arthritis in learning.