Performance Learning Productivity

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ID - Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world?

Performance Learning Productivity

Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content. I pass with flying colours.

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What Does the Training Department Do When Training Doesn’t Work?

Performance Learning Productivity

The global training industry is large and in growth again post-2008. Data provided by the US membership organisation Training Industry suggests annual growth around 6% per year since 2009. Although the Training Industry and ASTD figures vary a little it is clear that the global training industry is a large and apparently healthy one.

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

Performance Learning Productivity

The first chapter of ‘ 70:20:10 towards 100% performance’ (the recent book by Arets, Jennings & Heijnen) is titled ‘the training bubble’. It takes a quick look at the history, the lure, and some of the problems that have been brought about by thinking only in the formal training paradigm rather than in the performance paradigm.

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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

In the past that strategy provided a more robust defence than it does now (see an earlier article about compliance training for a discussion on that issue). A Tool for (a fading) Industrial Society In his article, Donald also gave a pen-sketch of the origins of the Learning Management System (LMS) as training administration systems.

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The Knowledge and Learning Transfer Problem

Performance Learning Productivity

It could be argued that it came into existence the day we separated training from the workplace. Talent development specialist Boudewijn Overduin says the solution to this problem is simple: ‘If you don’t train, you don’t have a transfer problem’.” 2007) Training Transfer: An Integrative Literature Review Zitter, I.

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Embedding Learning in Work: The Benefits and Challenges

Performance Learning Productivity

The Research A 2009 study by the Learning & Development Roundtable, a division of the Corporate Executive Board, reported that on-the-job learning had three times the impact on performance improvement over formal training programs. ADDIE (or some other instructional design approach) ruled.

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Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013

Performance Learning Productivity

You’ll see overlap but also unique perspectives: Charles Jennings An increasing number of organisations, independent of size, nature or location, will acknowledge that their traditional training and development models and processes are failing to live up to the expectations of their leaders and workforce in a dynamic and global marketplace.