bozarthzone

MARCH 2, 2012

I have an article in the new issue of ASTD's T+D, "From Traditional Instruction to Instructional Design 2.0". It's excerpted here if you'd like to take look. Some highlights: Social learning is learning with and from others by moving within one’s culture, workplace, and world.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 2, 2020

First, that the in-person experience needs to be replaced with all-online instruction. I am a proponent of online learning; I have an advanced degree in it and for 15 years my primary work role was evaluating and advocating for the use of educational technologies and alternative approaches to traditional instruction.

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Virtual World Alternatives Education Learning 52

bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2011

The eLearn reader we hope to reach is interested in and willing to use new technologies and approaches in creating, delivering, and supporting instruction (both academic and organizational) and workplace performance improvement. He regards professional development and lifelong learning as an obligation for any practitioner in any field.

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Virtual Classroom Case Study eLearning Virtual World 64

bozarthzone

AUGUST 11, 2010

[Note: This originally ran on Training Magazine’s former “Training Day” blog on 2/12/2010] Discussion of objectives in training could be a topic for a book all by itself, but lately I’ve run across 2 excellent examples of problems with learning/performance objectives. She tried to make the snake training meaningful and engaging.

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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. Training for future use of a skill is pretty much pointless. Sorry, but I forgot."

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Trainers: My "Instructional Design for the Real World" online session yesterday, hosted by Ray Jimenez and ASTD-Los Angeles, included mention of a trainer's evaluation of his/her own training session.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 31, 2010

This will be followed by a constellation of blogging stars from the training and eLearning fields. The Social Media for Trainers blog book tour begins this Thursday, September 2, with a kickoff post from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies' Jane Hart. Is the book right for you?

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2009

While the Kirkpatrick taxonomy is something of a sacred cow in training circles—and much credit goes to Donald Kirkpatrick for being the first to attempt to apply intentional evaluation to workplace training efforts—it is not the only approach. And finally: how can we deliver the instruction in a way that is appealing and engaging?

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 30, 2009

tools (like Twitter & Facebook) with ideas and instructions for conducting specific training activities with each (see the post from November 9). On learner attitudes toward training? I've just finished up the first draft of my latest book, Social Media for Trainers , due out from Pfeiffer in summer 2010.

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Attitudes Social Media Guidelines Social Networks 49

bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

My January 24 post, "Collapse of a Community of Practice", included an aside about what training practitioners are really doing v. My third book, From Analysis to Evaluation , was envisioned as a compilation of tools developed and used by practitioners in the field, loosely arranged around the ADDIE model of instructional design.

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bozarthzone

JUNE 7, 2009

Many reports coming in on last week's ASTD International Conference and Expo -- in my world coming from instructional designers and trainers making use of technology and social media -- expressed surprise at the prevalence of attendees who, to quote Cammy Bean , are "Traditional training people for whom most of this eLearning stuff is kind of exotic (..)

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2008

So how often does this happen? I've heard from people who've been told games are "too much fun", "we aren't allowed to have anything light", and my favorite, to the student who knocked it out of the park on his final project for one of my e-learning development courses, "It's too entertaining ".

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. If you're in the training/learning/Ed business, folks you've heard of often drop in, as do many folks you haven't heard of.

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bozarthzone

JULY 4, 2009

I don't know that I see 'new' skills so much as further refinement of the ones that we've needed since we first tried to integrate any web technologies into traditional classroom and OTJ instruction: 1. Become comfortable enough with technologies so that you can recognize them for what they really are. And it's fun.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Image for a blog post on designing instruction for novice v. A Facebook friend posted a photo of her young nephew playing with LEGO with the caption, “Love that we’re now at the point where we can improvise beyond the instructions.” I pasted it into an email to the person providing reimbursement. expert learners.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 30, 2008

If it weren’t for my global virtual village of training friends I would lose my mind, as everyone in my physical orbit thinks I am just speaking Plutonian or something most of the time. If they made a movie of my life I would want the part of me to be played by Debra Winger or Whoopi Goldberg.

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