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Adult learning theories for instructional designers: Andragogy

Matrix

In other words, instructional designers have to consider adults’ preferences and self-development methods. As we all know, going down the internet rabbit hole isn’t productive at all. It’s the designers’ job to know the learner persona well and build upon past learning and life experience. Stay tuned!

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

View all posts by Paul → ← Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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My History of Live Blogged Notes

Experiencing eLearning

That helps me remember what I attended and what I learned, and it lets me share that knowledge with others. In a recent discussion about how I have learned about instructional design without getting a master’s degree, someone asked me what courses and webinars I’ve attended. Reinventing Organizational Learning.

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Future of Employee Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

If a manager wants to know how to conduct a performance review session with a low-performing worker shortly before it is scheduled to happen, she can view or download instructional material that will help her with that session. Some learning is best done in a social, collaborative environment and in-action. Related articles.

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Are Companies Ready to Train Liberal Arts Grads?

The Performance Improvement Blog

It’s not that instruction is poor; it’s that organizations put up barriers to learning and application of learning. Professional trainers that are good at delivering instruction are not successful ensuring application of that learning.

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Evaluation Is Not Complicated

The Performance Improvement Blog

First we have to understand the alignment between a learning intervention, whether that’s classroom-based, elearning, coaching, on-the-job structured experiences, or something else, and the intended impact (e.g., customer retention, production, sales, revenue, market share). One is the law of learning as a process not an event.

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If the spacing effect is so great, why is nobody using it?

Learning Pool

Added to this, marketers have found over the years that a fairly reliable strategy for garnering clicks on social media is to stage a takedown of some or another tenet of instructional lore. That being said, there is one of these tenets that has kept its hold and retains pretty much unanimous acceptance today among wise heads in learning.