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Sunday, July 5, 2009
The seats I've pointed out are those of people on the same project. Yes I understand that "Learning Consultants" and "Technical Consultants" can't always sit at the table because they have their fingers in many different projects. Given that your overall design is simple and modular, most projects can do without these overheads. Whether you're part of a consultancy or an in-house training outfit, you're providing a service to a customer your people should matter a great deal to you. A
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Tags: Getting buy-in Managing people Project managemen There are times in life when I expect something to be perfect. When I open the box of my new Macbook Air, for example. Or when I take money out of the ATM.
In most cases though, I expect imperfect.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
How Wendy tackle's a new Captivate project! --------------------------------------------------- I create software simulations about 95% of the time. This is how I tackle a software simulation project. 3) List all of the tutorials you need to build for the project as a result of step 2 - I use this list to keep track of what needs to happen. When I'm not performing interpretive dance, this is what I do. --------------------------------------------------- I could have sworn I have written this down before somewhere in this blog. If I have, it's been awhile and I'm sure
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Monday, November 2, 2009
You have developed your big idea and polished the driving question , now for the most important aspect of Project Based Learning - planning the assessments. The project based learning design process concludes by developing a plan to assess whether learners are able to demonstrate the instructional objectives you set out for to begin with by completing one or more projects. In this post I highlight some I consider this to be the most important part of the design process because it is where you evaluate whether the lesson was successful or not. 1.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Enough talking about how to design project based learning, let's get down to the brass tacks and look at an example of a PBL lesson. If you would like more information on project based learning before looking at an example please review my series of project based learning blog posts . The email sent to participants at the beginning of the project will outline the guidelines of the project and provide access to the project web site This example is titled " Selling Sleep Disorder Relief " and was designed to help sleep products sales people improve their sales with customers suffering from sleep disorders.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Whether it’s a new client or one you’ve worked with before, the way you begin a project sets the tone for the rest of the project. Here are our top tips for ensuring every project starts with a bang!
Kicking off the project at the client’s offices allows you to get a feel for their culture and also offers the chance to meet everyone who’ll be involved, even if they can’t all attend the meeting.
1. Research your client before you meet them
Make
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Friday, October 16, 2009
In the last post of the Project Based Learning series, I introduced what project based learning is and the benefits of using Project Based Learning in corporate environments. Now that we know what PBL is and have seen an example of it's use in a corporate environment, let's dive into developing Project Based Lessons for corporate training. Project Based Lessons begin Houghton Mifflin's " Project Based Learning Space " defines driving questions as; " A driving question or problem that serves to organize and drive activities, which taken as a whole amount to a meaningful project."
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
So below is the Bamboo Project Readers' Guide to Blogging for Personal Branding . Should You Blog? To the question of "Should I Blog?" Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job... and Into a Career View more presentations from Sacha Chua . (tags:
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Monday, March 30, 2009
At the start of an elearning project, your client will often give you more information than will be useful. At the end of a project, I save both the marked-up source documents and the unmarked originals. Tags: Instructional design Project managemen You lurch awake at 2 AM, thinking, “What if the client asks where I put sub-policy 12.5B? Did I cover it?
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Effective project management is often the deciding factor when it comes to e-learning project success. Have a formal project kick off
Before Before you start the project, make sure you understand the learning objectives, the client’s expectations, the timelines and the risks. Your instinct Here are our top ten tips for making sure that you always deliver!
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