bozarthzone

MAY 11, 2018

This month's research report comes from Insync Training's Jennifer Hofmann: Blended learning can be applied in a variety of ways. This report examines some common critical success factors for incorporating blended learning into organizational training and offers recommendations for a successful move towards blending learning.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 12, 2018

The eLearning Guild's April research report examines the benefits and barriers of using augmented reality and virtual reality in organizations and how these organizations access and utilize the data derived from the AR and VR systems. What’s Your Reality?

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In fact research has shown ways of measuring some non-monetary benefits of higher academic education. In a bit of irony, research shows that higher education levels correlate with technology adoption. But is this the right approach?" They tend to make more deliberate choices when voting and participate in more community organizations.

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bozarthzone

JUNE 11, 2013

How many times have you finished a project , or researched an idea, or hunted down a resource, only to find someone else had already done the same thing? And it helps others learn about executing work not easily captured as a step-by-step process.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 18, 2012

Several chapters offer basics about game elements and play, while others offer reviews of theory and research regarding games for learning, player types and patterns, and snapshots of ways games can support workplace performance of particular types of tasks. And there isn’t even a winner, ever.

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bozarthzone

JULY 7, 2011

We welcome reader submissions and invite case studies, research, app and product reviews, reviews of conferences and other events. See the full text of my first blog post and writer's guidelines for more details.

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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?" can also serve as a great, quick way to show your work/work out loud.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Some has involved extensive new research. Coming to DevLearn 2015? I'll be there with 2 new sessions and a refreshed visit to a fun one from last year. Some has involved rethinking something I may have changed my mind about. The best thing?

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bozarthzone

APRIL 2, 2009

I'm researching an upcoming live-online session, "Tips for the Positive Deviant" and just ran into this anecdote: During a positive deviance workshop designed to surface strategies for curtailing the spread of AIDS/HIV in Myanmar, "The group consisted of prostitutes -- nearly all of whom insisted she faithfully made her clients use condoms.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 20, 2009

I've been doing a good deal of research/work lately with knowledge management. One of my concerns is that the focus so often seems to be only on output: where can we store knowledge? What sort of database can we build for it? Do we need more procedures manuals ?

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bozarthzone

AUGUST 10, 2009

One of my fondest memories of Colleen took place several years ago when I was a student in her "Introduction to Qualitative Research" course. As Paulo Freire, I believe teachers are also learners and learners are also teachers." She asked us to take out a blank sheet of paper and said we had a short writing assignment.

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bozarthzone

APRIL 20, 2009

My grad school research on communities of practice included an interesting 2000 article on communities, why people freely participate in them, and why they are willing to share. Clark Quinn, Marcia Conner, and others have begun a wonderful Thursday-night Twitter gathering (8pm EST; #lrnchat).

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bozarthzone

JUNE 7, 2009

Up to 2007 I did lots of research and wrote a number of papers for assorted courses. Once upon a time my dissertation was to focus on classroom trainer resistance to e-learning, killed by The Academy (some of whom were, um, traditional classroom trainers resistant to e-learning.).

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bozarthzone

MAY 23, 2011

Talking about top-secret research on a new drug the company hopes to patent, or a pending indictment of an SVP? These are people who otherwise don't know each other, or work together, but who share a common interest -- and improving could be quite valuable to some of their employers. Maybe not in public.

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bozarthzone

DECEMBER 10, 2008

One of the discussion points in my dissertation research involves the distinction between knowing how to do things (i.e., perform a task) and knowing how to get things done. At the agency where I work, for instance, we lost Grant of the Superpowers some years back.

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bozarthzone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Katja Pastoors, in particular, offers research that speaks to the matter of voluntary v. You won't find many articles or discussions on the topic of communities of practice without someone asking how we can control and manage them, how we can make people participate, and when we should enroll our new hires in them. forced learning.

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bozarthzone

JUNE 14, 2016

Along with his wife, Monique, Jerry looked at a question that researchers were working on at Tufts: “Why, with all resources being equal, are some children in a community not malnourished?” At the time, 65 percent of the children under age five in Vietnamese villages were malnourished.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 15, 2015

I feel that way when I’m in the zone on a good design project, or when researching a new topic that excites me. We have to drag him away when he exhausts himself, tongue nearly hitting the ground, and he pouts all the way home. His reward for herding is… to get to do it some more. You have likely felt that way, too.

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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. Twitter also can be used for reflection and mindfulness about learning: Every day @lrn2day (which I moderate with Marcia Connor) poses the question: "What did you learn today?"

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bozarthzone

MARCH 1, 2016

There were research-based explanations from Richard Mayer that helped me articulate—finally—why we didn’t want to narrate every word in every online learning program. There were studies that shed light on my unease with popular things like personality type-assessments.

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bozarthzone

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This 2018 Learning Guild research report, eLearning on a Shoestring , features successful practitioners enacting great work on tight budgets. I hope my examples offer you some inspiration or perhaps highlight a Snagit feature you haven’t yet explored. Many power users of products are people like me who are working with limited resources.

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bozarthzone

MARCH 16, 2009

My dissertation research focused broadly on communities of practice (CoPs), and narrowly on a single community comprised of workplace trainers who gathered voluntarily to “stamp out bad training”. Dave Ferguson has revived the Working/Learning Blog Carnival and has asked for thoughts on "work at learning: learning at work".

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