bozarthzone

MAY 11, 2018

Blended Learning in Practice , by Jennifer Hofmann, explores data collected in interviews with organizations in order to answer the question: How are blended learning programs being implemented, and what are the associated benefits and risks? View the executive summary and download the report here.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 23, 2018

Are organizations leveraging social tools to support training and performance efforts today? Social tools have emerged, disappeared, and evolved over time. The question is whether or not these tools are being used successfully in the modern L&D landscape.

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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. It surfaces informal and social learning to help make it visible to the organization and and management, whereas often now it is only opaque."

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bozarthzone

MAY 23, 2011

So many organizations show interest in Twitter and other social tools, but then worry about making online conversations private, or locking them up inside the company's firewall. Where is it happening in your organization? @AmyAfrica If you want a new design & are on a budget, get a new header. Most people want to help each other.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Choose those who will understand and bring the right voice at the right time, who show a sense of humor and confidence in doing the right thing for the organization. And let them work.

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bozarthzone

MAY 12, 2014

This will help our organizations, our coworkers, and others who engage in our practice. Working efficiently and effectively isn’t just about capturing “information.” We need to do better, not at documenting what people do, but how they get things done. It will support your credibility and establish or strengthen your brand.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 21, 2010

Twitter not quite right for your organization? And from @ldennison: if you're bringing it into the organization, you're the person responsible for it. This came up in #lrnchat last week, and in a Twitter discussion yesterday. This gives flexibility to change tools later on. Having said that: Choose the right tool in the first place.

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bozarthzone

JUNE 14, 2016

It isn’t about imposing solutions, but helping the community surface the solution it already has You know the drill: Organization has a problem. Organization brings in “experts” to study the problem, devise a solution, run a pilot (which may mean a training program), and then leave.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 6, 2012

and hte decisionmaking folwchart included there, sparked an interesting comment from a reader: " Sometimes organizations go to great trouble and expense to build (often inferior) eLearning in-house becasue they don't really know what their other options are." Last month's "Nuts and Bolts" column "Buy or Build?

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 4, 2012

How many organizations invest in more authoring tools and asset libraries than they do in people who know how to use them to design more effectively? “How much of our training budget goes to things that have nothing to do with ‘learning’? Why does the LMS cost more than the whole L&D department?

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bozarthzone

APRIL 18, 2012

Chapters open with questions, which provides a nice advance organizer for the information to come. The author has called in some big guns in terms of expertise, with Alicia Sanchez providing a chapter-length case study from Defense Acquisition University, and a chapter on virtual reality games from expert Koreen Olbrish.

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 9, 2016

This month's "Nuts & Bolts" column examines social learning as it happens naturally, organically, as people go about their day: It’s not about ‘doing social.’ It’s about supporting workers as they work by giving them the time and the right space to talk about it. It’s about listening.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 2, 2012

Some ideas include an online leadership book club to sustain learning beyond the confines of the organization’s structured leadership academy a networking group for graduates of a particular course, which can be a great way to support transfer of new learning from the classroom event a dynamic, evolving frequently-asked-questions webpage for new hires, (..)

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bozarthzone

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. I recently threw out an idea to organizers of a large conference, saying that I'd like to host a 'Twitter event' during the conference.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2010

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.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 20, 2009

This is positioned in contrast to the organizational view that knowledge is a private good owned by the organization or individual members. Wasko and Faraj interpret their findings to indicate that self-interest (to include organizational control or institutionalized CoPs) “denigrates” (p.171) 171) the community. Your thoughts?

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 15, 2008

I get a lot of "my organization won't let me." Take the initiative and work on changing how your organization works - don’t just sit there sulking, saying, “I wish we could do social media here, but we can’t even get on Facebook so there’s no use.” Bringing social media to your organization isn’t something that happens from 9-5.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Churches had pianos and organs, and communities had local gatherings of musicians both impromptu and planned, amateur and professional. Not all that many years ago, before Mr. Edison invented his wax cylinder, a music was something you had to go somewhere to hear unless you played an instrument yourself. It was social.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

My own organization had great success with this some years back when I convinced then-management to change a line item on our weekly reports from "Research" to "What did you learn this week?" Also what expertise or specialty they might have. And whether they're funny. Or exasperated. Answering "What did you learn today?"

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Wiki Use the wiki's inherent 'database' structure to start capturing collective knowledge within the organization. Invite course participants (and then, perhaps, the rest of the organization) to contribute tips for things like: Retaining top performers; improving existing processes; recruitment strategies; success stories.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 7, 2009

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. Elearn Magazine asked me for 500 words on my views about the current state and future of e-learning.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 2, 2009

Thanks to Techpower's Tony Karrer for including the Bozarthzone blog on his list of sources for eLearning Learning It's "a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning."

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bozarthzone

APRIL 2, 2009

Varying degrees of dexterity quickly differentiated the pretenders from the practitioners.With the right exercises, many organizations could profit from appropriate reincarnations of the 'banana test'."* The moment of truth occurred when each participant was asked to apply a condom to a banana.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 6, 2017

I’d organized the party as a Facebook Event, which provides a separate Facebook page with space for guests to post and comment, and people are still talking about the party and to each other today. Sarah’s mom once raised the same kind of chickens as Mitchell’s girlfriend. Wendy and Sterling already knew each other, which I didn’t know.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 2, 2020

They tend to make more deliberate choices when voting and participate in more community organizations. They exhibit more social cohesion: They are less prejudiced and are more likely to donate money and time. In a bit of irony, research shows that higher education levels correlate with technology adoption.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 20, 2009

The seven information skills highlighted are: (1) retrieving information; (2) evaluating information; (3) organizing information; (4) collaborating around information; (5) analyzing information; (6) presenting information; and (7) securing information.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

If you want to break down the traditional and artificial boundaries of the learning function within your organization, you can use the web to help do it." Here's what Karl said: ". ask yourself, if it's good enough for a president-elect to deliver messages and information via social media and Web 2.0 ov site itself.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Consultants: love-hate relationships with communities of practice, The Learning Organization 14 (1), 21-33. The homework myth: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. Pastoors, K.

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bozarthzone

JULY 4, 2009

Research has shown that one of the biggest fears traditional classroom trainers (and teachers, and organizations) have of new technologies is the lack of control. Maybe they'll be left behind, maybe they'll find themselves unemployable, maybe we will see organizations holding on for years more to the classroom/schoolhouse model.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 17, 2009

More life beyond Kirkpatrick: Will Thalhimer endorses Brinkerhoff's Success Case evaluation method and commends him for advocating that learning professionals play a more “courageous” role in their organizations. Enough already, Jane! More later on alternatives to the Kirkpatrick taxonomy. Yes, there are more.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2010

Learning is happening everywhere in organizations, but unless it looks like "training", then Training/L &D stands aside and lets it belong to someone else.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Meantime, back in organization land, we often can’t get past interview questions like, “Tell us about your ability to herd sheep, Bob.” The fellow who owns the farm offers regular herding instinct testing for any dog that comes to visit; it’s not that hard to see whether a critter is inclined to do this.

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bozarthzone

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In talking about Show Your Work I often ask audiences how working out loud benefits organizations, individuals. I was surprised by Doc's alacrity and loved all the unexpected personal attention and frequent updates. I also loved watching the process and seeing how Doc spent his day.

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bozarthzone

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Apart from the magazine proper, I want to note that I especially loved the Training conferences (ending with a year: "Training 2004", 2005, and so on) and the people who organized them! And when that book came out in 2005, new Training editor Holly Dolezalek ran a feature article about it, along with a banner on the magazine's cover.

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