Wonderful Brain

MARCH 29, 2011

About RSS Subscribe: RSS feed Wonderful Brain All Things Considered Important in Learning and Design Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning Posted on v, March, 2011 by Rich 0 I caught an interesting article about the twelve most dangerous words in business. Then I realized how they apply to learning and the pain they can cause.

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Wonderful Brain

MARCH 29, 2011

In the learning business, we tend to suffer early – and when training budgets start to be trimmed think of the canary in the coalmine. And my favorite use in learning – and it’s true especially in the arts as well – when the patron, viewer, learner says, “Interesting.” Nor the doctor holding your x-ray and saying, “Hmm, interesting.

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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. Guess what?

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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.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2014

From that point discover, categorize and develop with some confidence the types of learning each would be most comfortable with then craft an overall rubric to be used when designing courseware for multi-age audiences. But, in general this divide is not uncommon and where that happens, little learning goes on. The question to consider?

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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

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

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

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

MARCH 15, 2011

The Charter School – TEP, The Equity Project – makes the case that paying teachers a substantial salary, somewhat on par with (my words here) what a high level Instructional Designer or Learning & Development leader earns, will improve student test results. Or what we would call improved performance and employee effectiveness.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Nevertheless, the more I learn how companies capture and leverage their intellectual property, the more disheartened I become. I can remember lecturing graduate educators that schooling started when one man stood beneath a tree and told stories to his Grecian disciples who sought to learn. A Flash History of Knowledge Management.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Let me make this clear at the outset; my birth family are the tribe of the Old Testament so my father’s association with the Christmas holiday was learned from coworkers, Nat ‘King’ Cole, the tree at Rockefeller Center and New York fragrant with good cheer – often lubricated with smoky liquids around the 25 th.

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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

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’. The cliché that books are like old friends that even if ignored, are ready to visit anytime made these actions feel like a betrayal. I am not a procrastinator. I have worked efficiently and proficiently.

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Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 10, 2011

What can we learn from the methods used to develop curriculum from the academic and corporate sides of the street? In this comparison we can draw come conclusions and discover ways to enhance the integrity of the processes and the resulting knowledge development. Click here for the Improving Performance White Paper.

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Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 22, 2018

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. Its incumbent upon anyone on a career track learn everything and anything even if tangential to your field.

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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

JULY 23, 2011

Therefore, you will not have the opportunity to raise your batting average, make an impact on a game, impress scouts from other teams, and learn new skills from coaches and ballplayers who are in the game. A professional consultant, particularly in the learning field, is in exactly the same situation.

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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

MARCH 17, 2011

On their time, before the next session they were to write a synopsis of the book, detailing the plot, a description of the characters and of course, the lesson or truth learned — in a paragraph or two. Setting up these parameters eliminates books that demand too much interpretation (so long Dr. Suess).

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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? Preview and review experiences.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2012

When you desire higher order learning; that is information that actually teaches beyond mere recall, then how you design and what software you select for development define your expectations most clearly. Low-Level Learning Cheats the Learner. It’s highly seductive, relatively cheap in price and learning overhead.

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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

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

APRIL 3, 2011

About RSS Subscribe: RSS feed Wonderful Brain All Things Considered Important in Learning and Design Getting Closer to Bond, James Bond Posted on v, April, 2011 by Rich 0 I don’t believe it’s a secret that information design is gaining traction in the learning world.

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Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Even when I moved to the corporate world marketing and designing learning, I held this belief in my heart. It requires new thinking and a shift in expectations if school is about learning and opportunity. And yes, I’m a parent and now grandparent. I have a vested interest. This problem is not insoluble.

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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

MARCH 21, 2011

Picking up from yesterday, you’ll recall I had one unfortunate learner act as a victim for the cohort, drawing all the attention that-a-way. Whew, everyone else sighs. But no one evades as we go round the room and, if a bit more superficially, dissect each person’s book until everyone knows the method.

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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 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. Clearly an unintended consequence of obsessive madness. fact, there is much to be gained.

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Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2012

I n the modern era, the textbook is still the spine from which teachers deliver information. 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.

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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. Push open the fissure just starting to open that is decentralized learning.

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