Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You’re busy and your learners are busy. Personalized learning helps you deliver training that closes a specific skill gap, making efficient use of learners’ time and providing you a return on your training investment. Any time employees spend on training must add value to your bottom line. If it doesn’t, it’s a waste of time.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 16, 2011

To facilitate learning and find the best employees, you don’t necessarily have to pay the most; you have to create meaning and purpose for them, and then provide them with the autonomy to unleash their creativity and take action. So there you have it; common sense is wrong. Just don’t tell this to my boss.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 27, 2017

Traditional training methods might provide very short-term performance gains, but knowledge retention is minimal, leading to a skills gap. by Shane Lueck. It’s time to face the facts; traditional training is broken. It’s no secret that many corporate training programs aren’t cutting it these days.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2011

In my opinion, it’s not that providing on-demand learning and performance solutions is a new idea. It makes a big difference to your design if the on-demand content will be needed while the learner sits at their computer or while they perform a requalification inspection on a propane cylinder on a loading dock.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. McGoldrick described an approach to evaluating training that wasn’t just about changes in learner behavior but about learners integrated with and interacting within their own workplace. But it wasn’t.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

In this situation, your audience of learners may be scattered across multiple locations and those locations may even cover multiple states. Both choices come loaded with a whole bucket of potential scheduling issues that may result in your learners not getting the training they need, when they need it. It just happens.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

While games like these provide a fun alternative to boring quizzes, they do not provide context. In part, because games – based on realistic scenarios – can help learners achieve a state of flow. According to McGonigal, When we play a game, we think creatively, collaborate, and persist. Rieber and Play Theory.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 15, 2014

The goal of this article is to explain that connection and in the process provide a way to better understand how people learn as well as change. The post The Learner’s Journey: A Process For Helping People Learn To Change appeared first on Social Learning Blog.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 22, 2018

For one, they bring concepts to life and engage learners on an emotional level. Plus, videos can be referenced again and again for years, providing you with a higher return on investment than other training methods. Videos are some of the best training tools available in today’s corporate world. So where to begin?

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 26, 2011

Good learning programs should not over control the learning process but let the learner have time to explore and experiment. . The challenge is how to use technology to get learners away from computers and into the real world for live experiences. Knowledge is not something learners absorb, but something learners create.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 16, 2011

So…do you remember the last time you heard someone make an excuse for forgetting a vital piece of information, claiming it’s clearly not their fault because they are a visual learner? Similarly, psychologist Dan Willingham at the University of Virginia says teachers should not tailor instruction to different kinds of learners.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Even though many Learning and Development organizations find it a challenge to prove training’s effect beyond how learners react to the training and whether they have learned the training content, senior management and business stakeholders are more and more interested in metrics that show the bottom line.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 5, 2011

On a recent trip to New York, my job was to provide on-the-fly navigational instructions using Google Maps. Without some context-setting component – without some orientation – learners on the job might completely mess up based on a minor error in the performance support tool. In fact, it’s downright risky business and very unpleasant.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Provide Access to performance support/knowledge”. But instead of focusing on the technology (and its perceived limits), we in the learning community should think about the huge potential of mobile learning to engage the user, and provide “just in time” content in manageable, “bite-sized” packages. Foster communications/collaboration.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Gliffy is an online flow charting tool that provides a cost effective way to create and publish high-quality flow charts and diagrams. It provides free collaboration tools and automatic revision tracking that make sharing your work a snap. I’m also pleased with the variety of publishing options the tool provides.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 10, 2011

Here’s how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more. To avert these types of hazards, I agree with Clive’s recommended approach: Engage the learner. Provide an opportunity for practice, starting simple.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Gliffy is an online flow charting tool that provides a cost effective way to create and publish high-quality flow charts and diagrams. It provides free collaboration tools and automatic revision tracking that make sharing your work a snap. I’m also pleased with the variety of publishing options the tool provides.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Find out which meetings your SMEs are attending and get invited those that will likely provide valuable content. Provide SMEs with opportunities to report their readiness. The SME can then visit the site when they have time and do a structured brain-dump. That way you learn as your SMEs learn.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Find out which meetings your SMEs are attending and get invited those that will likely provide valuable content. Provide SMEs with opportunities to report their readiness. The SME can then visit the site when they have time and do a structured brain-dump. That way you learn as your SMEs learn.

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Dashe & Thomson

JULY 6, 2011

Reaction – What needs to be done to engage the learners/performers? As establishing new or improving learning/training processes typically begins with a problem, Clark provides this example: A manager complains that when he reads the monthly project reports he finds that the same mistakes keep showing up throughout the organization.

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Dashe & Thomson

JULY 12, 2011

Adult learners need to be open and ready to engage in the learning process. Barriers are created when learners lack interest, don’t see the benefit of learning, or have negative feelings about either the learning or the content. Provide positive suggestions by having a display of success stories of previous attendees.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 20, 2012

Even though many Learning and Development organizations find it a challenge to prove training’s effect beyond how learners react to the training and whether they have learned the training content, senior management and business stakeholders are more and more interested in metrics that show the impact on the organization.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 6, 2011

Another reason, though – and this coincidentally helps to explain the appeal of games to learners in the first place – is that it’s such a fun topic to write about. More importantly, it details a new arrangement between Grockit and charter school network KIPP to provide educational social-gaming to three of KIPP’s largest schools.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 6, 2011

It treats learners as consumers, not creators. It needs to proceed from a new understanding of the learning process, be in tune with today’s rapid-fire environment, and provide better learning and performance for all types of learners. It is what the learner says and does that is more important. See my web post.

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Dashe & Thomson

JULY 12, 2011

Adult learners need to be open and ready to engage in the learning process. Barriers are created when learners lack interest, don’t see the benefit of learning, or have negative feelings about either the learning or the content. Provide positive suggestions by having a display of success stories of previous attendees.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 18, 2012

Make sure learners know how to use the PS. Most learners would agree that their company’s corporate intranet site would not be classified as an effective performance support tool. 2. Let learners help each other. But those that do provide a wealth of valuable information. Use the right kind of PS.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Sending learners back to their jobs after training (even a “blended” combo of eLearning and ILT) without performance support is like sending them off into the woods without a map – then wondering why they got lost, even though you “gave them directions.”. Build performance support into every blended learning effort.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 27, 2011

. … In contrast, as countless people have noted, online learning has the potential to be a disruptive force that will transform … schools into a new model that is student-centric, highly personalized for each learner, and more productive. According to the report authors, six models are emerging to which blended learning is gravitating.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 15, 2014

The goal of this article is to explain that connection and in the process provide a way to better understand how people learn as well as change. This model can help provide a clearer example of how change happens in the real world. Download a PDF of the Learner’s Journey). The Learner’s Journey (PDF). .

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Avoid being hung up on job description or hierarchy; everyone should be able to share with everyone; Provide tools that allow for the rapid dissemination of thought, such as wikis, internal chat, blogs, etc. Because simply put, sometimes learners don’t know what they need to know, even if they think they do.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

As support, Anderson provides examples in which exceptional performers (elite dancers, TED Conference speakers), learn from their counterparts around the world by watching them online. all factors the adult learner considers when deciding their learning programs and what they intend to glean from it.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 7, 2012

ADDIE’s linear perspective provides a structured step-by step instructional design process. With Rapid Prototyping, learners and/or subject matter experts interact with prototypes and instructional designers in a continuous review and revision process. ADDIE vs. Rapid Prototyping.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

What performance support asks us to do is to put ourselves inside the learners’ experience. of Learning Guide Solutions who describes the learners’ end user experience as being in one of the Five Moments of Need: 1) New: When people are learning how to do something for the first time. They are not different from you and me.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Mobile learning should be a fast, easy user experience where learners can access a “robust library of content” and communicate with others. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Mobile learning should be a fast, easy user experience where learners can access a “robust library of content” and communicate with others. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This basic model has been used by organizations for many years to provide incentive for everything from girl scouts selling cookies to meeting goals in a weight loss program. I also think that when we choose to gamify content, we really need to provide an alternate means for users who just don’t want to play to access that content.

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