Program - eLearning Learning

DELIVERING IN THE 3.0 WORLD

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.

Director

Director Brain Performance Support Leadership

CORPORATE INSTRUCTION IS STILL DISCONNECTED FROM MILLENNIAL LEARNING STYLES – A LIST BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

Wonderful Brain

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

You’d think with all of this proven—and nowhere is it more evident than in large corporations—that learning programs would have been adjusted to align instruction with M proclivities for workplace education. By this time we all know the tropes that define who millennials (M) are, how they act and their fundamental personality characteristics.

Learning Styles

Learning Styles Corporate eLearning Instructional Instruction

Learning Design: The Great, The Good and The Good Enough

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 27, 2014

The best and greatest courseware, the most inventive and exciting depends on a designer who can sculpt content into a story, then work with an interactive and/or graphic designer to sharpen the user experience across multiple platforms finally passing the work to a developer to program—as designed—for implementation. Better, faster, cheaper.

Design

Design Courseware Instructional Design Mashups

Overcoming Generation Differences When Building Learning: Part 2

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Whether creating a training program when all three groups are in the room or accessing courses online demands the learning designer incorporate specific ways of delivering information with the appropriate assets, techniques, and technologies. Each has specific preferences for general communication and they carry over in training as well.

Cognitive

Cognitive Courseware Social Media Instructional Design

TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

Wonderful Brain

MAY 7, 2012

Or did the teacher prepare you for acceptance into a higher education program. For instance, did the teacher on line 21 provide you with the information you needed to be hired in the field/job you sought. Did the teacher help you create a portfolio or college essay that allowed you entry into your field of study?

Metrics

Metrics Teach Portfolio Education

The $125,000 Teacher – And Corporate Counterpart

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 15, 2011

Between municipal and school district turf battles – many fought over tenure – creative and potentially viable programs simply vanished. In the late 80′s when education dollars were flowing, experimentation was rife. All of which brings me to this point.

Metrics

Metrics Kirkpatrick Virtual World Evalution

Baking the Cookies: Hiring Learning Consultants to be Successful

Wonderful Brain

MAY 17, 2011

4. Determine and state with clarity if there will be support by internal experts, technical or supervisory staff, especially those who know the project/program/product – and how much time they will be available. Ensure expectations for time on task, volume of work and schedules are clarified. 7.

Consulting

Consulting Harassment Training Server Juice

Revolution or Evolution?

Wonderful Brain

APRIL 20, 2011

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. It’s only a revolution that will fundamentally redress the debilitating arthritis in learning.

Attitudes

Attitudes Mentoring Toolkit Camera

WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 30, 2012

It’s too easy being deceived into building courseware that relies on one set of online screens to sustain the entire learning program. Recently I designed a learning protocol that required engineers to work with an application in a lab setting with opportunities to use software to program hardware to work to specification.

Engineering

Engineering Learner Cognitive Examples

NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 23, 2014

I believe we can make some reasonable assumptions about the elements that once incorporated into instructional programs will reach every generation in their preferred learning style leaving no one outside the scope of education. Of course this does not mean they are outliers, they simply fall into some other generational category.

Courseware

Courseware Social Networks Attitudes Instant Messaging

10.2 Strategic Ways to Ensure Learning Begets Performance Improvement

Wonderful Brain

JUNE 5, 2011

Every learning program usually starts with a proclamation, “This will be online e-learning because it must migrate to 4 geos. Moreover, do this first, before planning the learning design. Capture all of this information, archive it, and treat it as a contract. Share this with management as a check for understanding. Play To The Medium.

Performance Support

Performance Support Performance Blended Learning Compliance Training

BACK IN THE LEARNING SADDLE

Wonderful Brain

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Developers who had the technical skills to program had serious backgrounds – or access to graphic designers. Just take a look back for a moment – those of you who have access to history – when desktop publishing programs hit the street. Thus the content was not only solid – it was delivered by real pros.

Flash

Flash Templates HTML Learning

THE ACCIDENTAL LEARNER

Wonderful Brain

JANUARY 11, 2012

Learning to run an application, program a website, or design a manufacturing process to take costs from production offers few opportunities for exploration of happenstance. And yet, ask anyone who programs in code how they get into a zone and become fabulously productive for a given and fixed period of time.

Learner

Learner Moveable Type Movie Music

Getting Close to the Ground

Wonderful Brain

AUGUST 28, 2011

College for the boardroom, classroom, higher academic pursuits like law and medicine; technicians who draw blood, troubleshoot computers and provide public service from police to municipal workers of all types, and tradespeople who through a ‘connection’ can apprentice through a union sponsored program or intern with a generous business owner.

Courseware

Courseware Internationalization Alternatives Education

LEADERS ARE TOO FAR UPSTREAM TO EFFECT CHANGE—TALENT MANAGEMENT MUST BE FOCUSED DOWNSTREAM ON MANAGERS

Wonderful Brain

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

I suppose the final tally of all the characteristics in the chart can be boiled down to the simple idea that talent management learning programs should be less focused on building leadership and more attuned to managerial competence. Bringing management into a 21 st century paradigm will directly encourage people to do great work.

Management

Management Change Leadership Effectiveness

ARTICULATE NON EST REX – 3 REASONS HIGHER ORDER LEARNING IS BEYOND THE MOAT

Wonderful Brain

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Furthermore, having no grasp of how to build let alone interpret a storyboard never held back their opinion about how a screen (which they continued to call slides after that infamous program that serves as an anchor for Articulate) should be populated. The comparison might be a dentist who decides to attempt heart surgery.

Articulate

Articulate Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Cognitive

Gadgets You Can Get Rid Of – and Pile Up These Outmoded Education Ideas, Too

Wonderful Brain

MARCH 25, 2011

Corporations know this – when staff travels their laptops are precious cargo and many an airline passenger is heads down working on a training program. Of course, the program might just be a recitation or page-turner that only defeats the real opportunity.

Ideas

Ideas Education Simulations Courseware

eLearning Learning

Wonderful Brain

DELIVERING IN THE 3.0 WORLD

CORPORATE INSTRUCTION IS STILL DISCONNECTED FROM MILLENNIAL LEARNING STYLES – A LIST BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

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Learning Design: The Great, The Good and The Good Enough

Overcoming Generation Differences When Building Learning: Part 2

TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

The $125,000 Teacher – And Corporate Counterpart

Baking the Cookies: Hiring Learning Consultants to be Successful

Revolution or Evolution?

WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

NOW EVERYONE WINS: OVERCOMING GENERATION DIFFERENCES WHEN BUILDING LEARNING

10.2 Strategic Ways to Ensure Learning Begets Performance Improvement

BACK IN THE LEARNING SADDLE

THE ACCIDENTAL LEARNER

Getting Close to the Ground

LEADERS ARE TOO FAR UPSTREAM TO EFFECT CHANGE—TALENT MANAGEMENT MUST BE FOCUSED DOWNSTREAM ON MANAGERS

ARTICULATE NON EST REX – 3 REASONS HIGHER ORDER LEARNING IS BEYOND THE MOAT

Gadgets You Can Get Rid Of – and Pile Up These Outmoded Education Ideas, Too

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