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Modeling mental models

Clark Quinn

Wikipedia defines them as “an internal representation of external reality” Really, it’s an explanation of how a small part of the world works. One small problem is that subject matter experts have compiled their knowledge away, and may not have conscious access to the mental models they use.

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Why is problem solving at home so much easier (and more productive) than problem solving at work?

Axonify

In our home world, systems such as Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube have evolved to meet the needs of the individual. Sounds like a long-overdue, logical approach to problem solving at work. That’s a pretty common way to solve life problems nowadays, right? Well, I’m not just here to point out the problem.

Problem 100
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Why is problem solving at home so much easier (and more productive) than problem solving at work?

Axonify

In our home world, systems such as Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube have evolved to meet the needs of the individual. Sounds like a long-overdue, logical approach to problem solving at work. That’s a pretty common way to solve life problems nowadays, right? Well, I’m not just here to point out the problem.

Problem 100
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Soft landing

E-Learning Provocateur

Wikipedia describes soft skills as “psychosocial”, and I feel this hits the mark closer than most. Unfortunately Wikipedia goes on to declare that hard skills are specific to individual professions, which is demonstrably false. For example, is a hard skill such as data analysis not also a business skill or a power skill?

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Use Crowdsourcing to Improve Products, Design New Products, or Solve Problems

Raptivity

It''s a proven fact that two people working together have a better chance of solving a problem than someone working alone. But what if you could ask a crowd of people to work together to solve a problem? There are many companies using crowdsourcing today to improve products, design new products, or solve problems.

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Should SMEs Create eLearning Courses?

Upside Learning

Experts suffer from what’s known as the ‘curse of knowledge (aka ‘curse of expertise’) – Wikipedia Link Learning Designers, in contrast, are (or should be) skilled to unpack the models SMEs hold and present the same more appropriately to novice learners.

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ChatGPT-3 Has Everyone Talking

Learningtogo

First, Open AI used the largest training dataset, combining a database containing much of the internet, a huge library of books, and Wikipedia. However, there continues to be an underlying problem: Chatbots are only as good as their training (like us humans). To be fair, ChatGPT wasn’t built to perform math problems.

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