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Don’t Get Lost in the Sand Dune… Make Connections!

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Providing a Road Map for Learners In 1984 I saw the first movie adaptation of Dune. Because it was so extraordinary and made such an impression, I set out to read the original series by Frank Herbert , a journey that took me many, many years to complete. While the original series is only six books, most can best be described (in the words of my former College English Lit professor) as “weighty tomes of words.

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Staying the Course…

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Skill-Based Learning I’ve read several recent articles and trend reports talking about a renewed focus on skills as the basis for hiring and learning, and I couldn’t be happier. Innovative Learning Group was founded on the idea that skills can be improved through learning and performance support solutions for workers, leading to higher performance and organizational results.

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Pushing Beyond 101

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Teaching the Experienced Workforce Why do most organizations put 80 percent of their learning resources into supporting less than 20 percent of the workforce? Look at your organization’s budget for learning and development and try to justify why almost every program is geared to new hires and those with less than a year of experience. That’s an 80/20 phenomenon that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

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Let’s Talk Video, Take 2

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Instructional Reasons for Using Video in E-Learning Recently my peer, Eris Noren, wrote a blog about best practices for using video in e-learning where he described video styles, software, and the process used to create a video. In this “Take 2,” I’m going to expand on his ideas by addressing the instructional reasons for using videos. Like Eris mentioned, there are many reasons to use video in your training: it’s a quick way to deliver content, sound, and motion to engage learners; it can be us

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The SME: An ISD’s Best Content Friend

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How to Effectively Work With Subject Matter Experts. In my many years as an instructional systems designer (ISD), I’ve learned about a lot of other jobs in a number of different industries. I started out at a company that focused on government defense and have gone on to projects in automotive , utilities, medical technology , healthcare , insurance , financial services , and retail.

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It’s All About the Journey

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Don’t Just Train, Give Learners an Adventure! Consider this training request scenario: Learning need: A new business process, along with new software, is to be rolled out to employees within a company division. Challenge: The employees must transition to the process at software go-live, three months from now. The software is currently being customized to meet the organization’s requirements.

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Compliance Training – Just Do It Already

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Best Practices for Doing Compliance Training Right. I know what you’re thinking, “Not another blog about compliance. What more is there to say? Compliance training must be done, so just do it!”. But pause a minute… this idea of “just do it” is why compliance training often ends up being so unpalatable. Because it typically must be created — or recreated — and taken on a yearly basis, compliance training may be given short shrift when it comes to rigorous and thoughtful design and development.