bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2010

"One of the frustrations in Learning & Development is the reality of what happens when the worker returns to the job. This month's "Nuts and Bolts" column for Learning Solutions Magazine offers tips for getting management commitment to training.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Certainly the bigger goal is to help training become less an event and more a process, and to support ways for workers to form communities and interact with one another -- not just with the trainer. Ideas for other activities?

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

I am just home from Training 2009 where, among other things, I offered sessions on "Better than Bullet Points" and "Instructional Design for the Real World". Here are some of the sacred training cows I tipped in Atlanta: --Much of what we call 'e-learning' would be much more useful if distributed as text documents. --The

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Earlier this year I had a serendipitous meeting with a fellow who owns a small farm, which he uses as a dog training facility. And we need to quit hiring unqualified turkeys and then asking the training department to spend 10 years trying to teach them to herd sheep. Training On our first visit Thomas performed beyond our expectations.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

If you're interested in workplace learning I encourage you to take a look. For instance, "Diversity", "Harassment", and "Ethics" can be really interesting, engaging training topics if handled by good designers and facilitators. makes the training mandatory. What could be useful learning just becomes more work.

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bozarthzone

JULY 16, 2009

News reports also state that United wants to use the video in "training". Sorry, but I don't see a training problem here. No, baggage handlers do not need to attend training so they can "learn" not to throw musical instruments onto the tarmac, for cryin' out loud.

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bozarthzone

JULY 9, 2010

Some Twitter folks are getting together to discuss "how people learn" as evidenced in King's On Writin g and Gawande's Complications. Both books are examples of adult learners who learn through practice/reflect on learning. Details are at the Training Book Review blog. Interested?

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 6, 2020

In watching events of 2020 unfold I've seen many organizations make a sudden shift from face-to-face training to the virtual classroom. Evidence-Based Design for Virtual Classroom Experiences is available for free download with a free membership to The Learning Guild.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. If you're in the training/learning/Ed business, folks you've heard of often drop in, as do many folks you haven't heard of.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 7, 2009

Elearn Magazine asked me for 500 words on my views about the current state and future of e-learning. The piece begins: "As the news about the economy grows ever bleaker, organizations are finally forced to take a hard look at travel and other expenses associated with traditional classroom training. The other 456 words are here.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2010

Welcome to today's stop on the Learning in 3D blog book tour. Substitute “VIE” with any other term you like: “technology”, “tool”, “course” “blog”, “Facebook group”, “webinar software”…: “Some organizations create a virtual space with only vague learning outcomes and no formal assessment plan. Does the passage below sound familiar?

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bozarthzone

JUNE 7, 2009

Once upon a time my dissertation was to focus on classroom trainer resistance to e-learning, killed by The Academy (some of whom were, um, traditional classroom trainers resistant to e-learning.). Up to 2007 I did lots of research and wrote a number of papers for assorted courses.

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bozarthzone

JULY 4, 2009

This month's Big Question asks what new skills learning professionals need going forward in a Web World, "where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace". For instance: Tweeting is not just a solipsistic place for telling the world what you had for breakfast.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Let Me Google That for You (LMGTFY) , just out from The Learning Guild, gives me the opportunity to respond to Guild member questions that require answers but not full-length reports. What is the optimal length for a training video? The report can be downloaded for free with a free membership to The Learning Guild.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2008

I've heard from people who've been told games are "too much fun", "we aren't allowed to have anything light", and my favorite, to the student who knocked it out of the park on his final project for one of my e-learning development courses, "It's too entertaining ".

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The experience -- from diagnosis to surgery to complications to recovery -- served as an excellent reminder that learning does not happen in a vacuum, that “training” is rarely enough, and that learners are actors in a system with many moving parts. How do we design for “personalized” learning experiences?

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bozarthzone

JUNE 11, 2013

As I wrote in the May issue of T+D Magazine : " Sharing and showing what we’re doing and learning can ease several pain points for organizations. And it helps others learn about executing work not easily captured as a step-by-step process. Join me today, June 11, 2 pm ET, for " Show Your Work ", a webcast hosted by ASTD.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 23, 2008

Readers of my "E-Learning Solutions on a Shoestring" can check the bozarthzone for updates on e-learning addons, tools, and a recording of my presentation "Collaboration on a Shoestring: Using Web 2.0 technologies in Training". I have been accused of neglect! Don't own "Shoestring"? Amazon will gladly send a copy your way.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 6, 2017

Just bring some samples of your work, or something to perform, and tell us something about it: why it's a passion, how you do it, what you wish others knew about it, how you learned it, whatever. How did you learn to do it? In response to so much bad PowerPoint in our business (L&D) she started Refresher Training LLC.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 15, 2018

This month in Learning Solutions I offer ideas for a "crash course" in learning design for those who may find themselves thrown into the role. Classroom trainers are often recruited to create eLearning content that is nothing more than a regurgitation of classroom materials. Whatever the reason, it happens.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 11, 2010

[Note: This originally ran on Training Magazine’s former “Training Day” blog on 2/12/2010] Discussion of objectives in training could be a topic for a book all by itself, but lately I’ve run across 2 excellent examples of problems with learning/performance objectives. She did not read PowerPoint slides to Max.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 2, 2012

Some highlights: Social learning is learning with and from others by moving within one’s culture, workplace, and world. Social learning is how most of us learn most things: through living in our cultures and interacting with others there. What are some ways to help support the new learning as people work to implement it?

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bozarthzone

APRIL 15, 2016

These are frequently compounded by a lack of travel funds for moving people or instructors around for face-to-face training events. As with the struggle to differentiate “presentation” from “training,” I tried to distinguish better use of—and my approach to—virtual classroom-based instruction with language like “live online session.”

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bozarthzone

MAY 24, 2013

The one state government classroom trainer of 500 who instead of saying, “We can’t do e-learning because it’s too expensive,” asked, “How can we do e-learning without much money?” Read the rest in this month''s issue of Training Magazine.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Something new next week, hosted by KZO Innovations : Video used in formal training, or to support informal learning, doesn''t have to be just another passive viewing experience. Join me for a look at the ways video can be used effectively to extend learning experieces and help generate new ones.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This month's Learning Solutions column revisits a favorite topic of mine: Working with very little budget. Not understanding the reality of development Not knowing what you already have The tech that will "change training forever!" Cart before the horse For more, see the rest of the column at [link].

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bozarthzone

MARCH 27, 2010

There's been lot of talk in Twitterland lately about the usefulness of the ADDIE process model often used in instructional design (much on the theme of whether ADDIE is dead), and the validity/existence of "informal" learning. Training for future use of a skill is pretty much pointless. Sorry, but I forgot."

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bozarthzone

JUNE 14, 2016

While there are individual positive deviants who work alone, a key factor is working with the community to surface, spread, and sustain solutions rather than try to force outside-in answers—as is so often the case with training. One of my staff suggested that we start adding on infant and child CPR at the end of the training day.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 4, 2012

“How much of our training budget goes to things that have nothing to do with ‘learning’? Why have we fragmented learning into shards of ‘objects’ rather than craft whole, robust learning experiences? Why have we fragmented learning into shards of ‘objects’ rather than craft whole, robust learning experiences?

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bozarthzone

APRIL 12, 2015

Much better than a hollow chocolate bunny, my metaphorical Easter basket this year held a review copy of Connie Malamed’s wonderful new Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning. Malamed wants the learner to have an elegant, complete experience. The choice of when and how to, or not to, use white space matters.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2010

Jane Hart weighed in with “social learning is being picked up by software vendors and marketers as the next solution-in-a-box, when it’s more of an approach and a cultural mind-set”. Time and time again I see Training/L & D allowing this to happen.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 13, 2009

Hundreds of people joined me for a whirlwind tour of my second book, Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint. The session, hosted by the Training Magazine Network , came down to this: Plenty of horrible e-learning has been created with expensive tools.

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bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2011

This reader sees him- or herself as an educator or workplace learning practitioner interested in professional development, improving practice, and learning more about learning regardless of the vehicle. He regards professional development and lifelong learning as an obligation for any practitioner in any field.

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Virtual Classroom Case Study eLearning Virtual World 64

bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2009

While the Kirkpatrick taxonomy is something of a sacred cow in training circles—and much credit goes to Donald Kirkpatrick for being the first to attempt to apply intentional evaluation to workplace training efforts—it is not the only approach. Short story: this one is more about improving what you're doing than proving what you did.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 30, 2009

tools (like Twitter & Facebook) with ideas and instructions for conducting specific training activities with each (see the post from November 9). And ironically: Most of the books were also touting "constructivism", "letting learners take over" and "putting learning into the learner's hands". On learner attitudes toward training?

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

It was a great week with contributions from great folks: Stop 1 was Jane Hart's Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, where the book received " Pick of the Day" status. Stop 3 was a guest post for Yammer with a discussion of using these tools for social learning in the enterprise.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The Social Media for Trainers blog book tour begins this Thursday, September 2, with a kickoff post from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies' Jane Hart. This will be followed by a constellation of blogging stars from the training and eLearning fields. Is the book right for you?

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