Intrepid by VitalSource

JANUARY 13, 2020

You wouldn’t be blamed for thinking MOOC stood not for the traditional acronym of Massive Open Online Course, but maybe “Meh! The promise of the academic-style MOOC for corporate training has been tried and has been found wanting. Obsolete Online Courses” or “Massively Overrated Online Courses.”

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Open Online Course Training 52

E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We live in an era where “training”, “lecture”, “course” and even “teaching” have become dirty words. A manifestation of this trend is no more vivid than in the invective directed at MOOCs – or more accurately, xMOOCs. Ergo, xMOOCs are bad. When the learner is a novice.

Sexual Harassment Training 230

Sexual Harassment Training Harassment Training Lecture Instructional Design 230

E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

I start this post by thanking Angela Towndrow , a fellow Aussie whom I met virtually via a mooc, and from whom I continue to draw insights on things related to education. After reading my previous post Let’s get rid of the instructors!

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Education Teach Delicious Roles 250

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

If the Sami eskimos have 180 words for snow - how come we as learning professionals have only one word for learning? OK, we have learning and development (L&D) so we have two words. I understand why the Dutch have only one word for snow, because we had only one day of snow this year (see picture) and rather thinnish.

Compliance Training 90

Compliance Training Social Networks Social Network Analysis Social Learning 90

ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

I agree that’s a string of nouns and adjectives and sounds like I have thrown together a set of buzz words. Designing courses is passé! We have to think agile, instant, accessible, contextual, micro-sized, real time… We need to uberize organizational learning. But it’s not. Agility and pull lie at the heart of uberization.

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Organizational Learning Course Scanning Community 100

Elucidat

JUNE 28, 2019

Did we do gamification wrong, or a bit quick and dirty? Why are games having more impact on our brains than digital learning? Is digital the problem, or is it how we use it that counts? We got our hands on the preview edition and took a deep-dive into this brand new chapter. Perhaps there is something in gamification after all.

Brain 79

Brain Digital Attention Games 79