Wonderful Brain

MAY 25, 2011

We read a lot about using SM to learn, but how about to build? reasons to build learning via SM. People learn best in a social context and are self-directed, particularly when focused on a specific task. Learn to build conversations that can morph into a big story. Here are 5.1 A Social Collective.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 13, 2014

When building a learning course for example, your subject matter experts deliver very specific information as they must do. Change ELearning KNowledge Management Leadership Social Media change management decision making e-learning learning' Using a model such as the one proposed might make such an effort more reasonable.

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Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

About RSS Subscribe: RSS feed Wonderful Brain All Things Considered Important in Learning and Design Heroes of Learning Foundation Debut Posted on v, February, 2011 by Rich 0 For the longest time I’ve wanted to learn about the influencers who have changed the course or perspective of professional practice. So I had to.

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Wonderful Brain

MAY 17, 2011

He has neither power nor influence to bend people even when it might be in the company’s best interest to learn of economies, efficiencies, technical issues and so on. The difficulty faced by a consultant in any capacity is akin to a well-paid indentured servant. Describes, in broad terms, the nature of the project. 5.

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Wonderful Brain

JULY 23, 2011

Maybe a notch below, my experiences and knowledge is pretty fair but I wouldn’t dispute a point with a respected expert–my words would only be a well-informed opinion. A professional consultant, particularly in the learning field, is in exactly the same situation. Not only will the learning designer, et.al.

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Wonderful Brain

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

When you work as a consultant you learn how true the adage, ‘time is money’ and, ‘thinking, that takes time, costs money’. Knowledge was the door and reading, the key. The accumulated knowledge, of fact, fables, and stories; of history, of art and fantasy, reduced to ash the creative efforts of Jews and non-Jews alike.

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Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 22, 2018

CMDK: Alternatively, we could examine an individual who is relatively unskilled or less knowledgeable. They use whatever real power they have to push you off your working methodology and accept theirs – doubling your efforts by forcing you to learn new ‘formats’ while you are simultaneously solving problems.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I promised a colleague a week ago I’d share an experience I had producing a mobile learning project for a major airline. So many of us are involved in love affairs with the latest technologies sometimes we forget to brake our enthusiasm and learn after too much money and effort that the latest isn’t always the greatest.

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Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We offer custom learning solutions, knowledge & content management and program/project professional services with enthusiastic leadership to drive or support business strategies resulting in compelling user experiences, people performance, and major profitability. I’m the owner and managing director of Wonderful Brain LLC.

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Wonderful Brain

MAY 18, 2012

Too often, I visit learning that is frankly weak even if it has all the requisite objectives, structure, and guiding scaffold, e.g. ADDIE by example. Whether in Captivate, Articulate, or a full-blown Flash/HTML course too many learning experiences are dry to the mind, dull to the eye and dead to the ear. But try to stick to type.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 6, 2011

For those whose responsibility means creating learning in any of its forms we have an audience we must reach.The inner critic should always be at work. If you regard making learning ‘products’ that deliver knowledge, skills or behaviors that infuse performance change in others you had better question every decision.

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Wonderful Brain

APRIL 20, 2011

I’m a big fan of “Learning Without Frontiers.” is interested in a learning revolution not evolution. 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.

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Wonderful Brain

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Now we have the technological capacity to deliver learning to anyone in the learning style to which they best respond across multiple platforms irrespective of time and geography. 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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Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s been a while since I’ve written to my learning blog – for those who have followed me and others curious – I’ve been working on the marketing side of things for a bit. Firstly, the line between a learning designer and learning developer has been eradicated. Except that won’t carry water.

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Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 30, 2012

And in my many years building learning, whether facilitated instruction or elearning it’s a cardinal rule that instructional designers need to know many aspects of their target learner’s personality traits. So what would a learning solution look like if it were built to an engineer’s specifications? perfectionists. risk averse.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 26, 2012

Let’s face it; anyone who has read Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs bio, or had prior knowledge of SJs commitment to establishing, protecting, and defending the vision and personality of Apple learned what an oath of fealty to branding means. This whole scenario brings back the idea of corporate culture.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 11, 2014

More so than in other efforts learning demands a careful balance of content and context. Moreover, it’s not the pacing nor structure of events nor even the implied threat the learning or training is a job requirement. Traditional learning and development is about pushing out information. Not dismiss, just set them aside.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 11, 2012

There seems to be a revival of interest about informal learning. No matter how the information is presented, gathered or used it appears the single best notion is that it was unintentional and/or secondary to the main thrust of what is or was to be learned. Let me suggest we might think of informal learning as ‘Ad Hoc.’

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Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

If we need new managers capable of thinking this way than that’s where talent management learning might start. When companies speak of talent management they still, in most cases, make distinctions among the types of employees who earn or receive the types of learning that prepares them for one role or the other. The answer is yes.

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Wonderful Brain

AUGUST 28, 2011

Learn ‘right now’ material for the most contemporary and in demand employment sector, get educated or certified fast and go get a job. Because learning starts with simple core material, virtually guaranteeing success, formerly ‘anti-students’ will hang on as their achievement becomes habitual. My prescription is very simple.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I know you’re thinking, is there a point here for me—the learning developer/business person.In A Knowledge Management Whitepaper. Of course we all know that for all the preparationand well fortified the Pequod, she goes down with all hands but one, when the great whale stoves in the ship. fact, there is much to be gained.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2012

Despite the ubiquity of Wikipedia and the web, most teachers rely on a single source to reference the bulk of instructional material for knowledge transfer to their charges. I n the modern era, the textbook is still the spine from which teachers deliver information.

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Wonderful Brain

APRIL 11, 2011

It’s no secret that coming from leadership positions in public and corporate education I am very critical of substandard learning; ‘e’ or otherwise. So I ask, where have the learning leaders in major corporations gone? Rapid e-learning tools don’t offend me – they are the hammers and nails of production.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 25, 2011

How many antique philosophical constructs, techniques and methodologies (and include tech here) must we throw into a crevice to melt in the instructional magma before we get the idea that there are many ways to resolve – and improve learning performance. 4. Push open the fissure just starting to open that is decentralized learning.

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