Learnnovators

MAY 24, 2023

When it comes to gamification, story-based narratives are said to be the holy grail of intrinsic motivation. And with good reason. Human beings are emotional creatures, and well-told stories can hook you in, making you participate and engage with the material deeply. Let’s take a look at a couple of good examples that use stories as such: For a gamified learning experience on IT security, an artificial infosec breach is created within the organization’s firewall.

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2023

One tool that is commonly used in e-learning development is MS Word. While it may seem like a simple program, there are a ton of little-known tips and tricks that can make developing your next e-learning storyboard a breeze. If you’re someone who is serious about instructional design, this might seem trivial to you. “Learn the trade, the tools come later.” is a trope I’ve parodied several times in my life.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 5, 2023

The last time I published my top tools was in 2016, in response to Jane Hart’s compilation effort for the “Top 100 Tools for Learning”. Every year since then, I’ve missed the participation boat under some pretext or the other. 2022 was no exception. As you might be aware, Jane has already published the list for 2022. You can access it here. But if I had voted, here’s what I would have picked.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 2, 2023

CAMMY BEAN - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS ABOUT CAMMY BEAN: Cammy Bean accidentally became an instructional designer in 1996 and has since collaborated with hundreds of organizations to design and deliver training programs. She’s worked at small startups, mid-sized training companies, boutique elearning shops, and as a freelance instructional designer.

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Learnnovators

MARCH 8, 2023

A while ago, Mark Britz asked an interesting and valuable question on LinkedIn. It read “What if training wasn’t an option?” So here goes my response. As many argued in response to Mark’s post, a course is in fact necessary in many cases to address the need of the organization. I agree. But that doesn’t mean that we should default to one whenever a ‘training need’ arises.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

“Write with a specific person in mind” has always been good advice for authors. But this doesn’t apply to just writing. It extends to all creative work, whether you’re directing a movie, setting up a business, selling a product, or creating a course. Having said that, the thing that helps us come closest to creating with a specific person in mind is personas.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There’s a new kid on the block that everyone’s talking about… ChatGPT , the AI that needs no introduction! Well, ChatGPT is not new anymore, since it’s been around for a while, but the uptake is quite high with people asking whether it’s going to replace a human creative person, and I thought I should jump in with my two cents. So here you go… First, what is it?

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“Why should I care about the organization’s values? They’ve got nothing to do with me.” This was a question asked, in all earnest innocence, by an employee who had newly joined our team. They were referring to the induction program they’d had to ‘sit through’ in all previous organizations. Distressing as it was to hear, it gave me pause. At Learnnovators, we’ve been designing onboarding programs for decades, and we have had our fair share of successes and failures.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 25, 2023

Marketing is one of the fields that L&D has always borrowed from, and for good reason. While it has offered us a lot by way of communication and engagement, I’d say that its best contribution to L&D is learner personas. Personas are a term used very commonly in marketing, and they refer to a fictional characterization of a prospective buyer.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 18, 2023

Why, And the Big Picture. I have spoken before about the role solutioning can play in good training, as well as how an instructional designer can help in even content-based value creation. But all this is possible only when we consider the personal and political biases we work with, because those affect and shape our designs. We know, ‘sexism (or racism) bad, inclusivity good’.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’ve noticed an uptick lately among L&D people in the usage of the term ‘digital natives’. And in general, if you happen to hang out on Twitter, Instagram or any other social media, you’re bound to hear different age groups lampooning each other using generation-based labels. This is so common, that for instance, saying “OK, Boomer” or “snowflake” is shorthand for a whole essay of criticism spanning social, political, economic, psychological fronts.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 4, 2023

We all have a pedant inside of us. While we ourselves may not find the most suitable words to use on every occasion, we take pleasure in pointing out the nitty-gritty of mistakes made by someone else. At least, that’s very true of me. And as I’m writing this, I can almost hear the collective groan from my family as I pointed out the 23 mistakes in a written recipe that was shared in our WhatsApp group.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

CONRAD GOTTFREDSON - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT CONRAD GOTTFREDSON: Dr. Conrad Gottfredson is a founding partner, and the Chief Learning Strategist, at APPLY Synergies , a 5 Moments of Need company that specializes in helping learning professionals design, develop, maintain, and measure effective learning and performance support through the 5 Moments of Need® design methodology.

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Learnnovators

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Every once in a while, you see someone posting about Dale’s Cone , digital natives , attention spans , or even learning styles on LinkedIn. Next thing you see an entire village descending on the post, and a heated debate ensues. Here’s how the argument typically goes: The myth-perpetuator: You should see the way my kid takes to the tablet! The myth-buster: Hey look, that a particular generation is better with technology is a myth.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

I read a small news item a while back and I just can’t stop thinking about it. A bunch of researchers at MIT found a new, much more efficient way to boil water. It’s giving me goosebumps, no kidding. Let me share that awe with you…. While in the corporate world we regard wanting change to be almost a virtue in itself, we also readily resort to a rhetorical question I quite dislike.

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2022

When speaking of a code of conduct, we always refer to business-critical tasks, such as behavior in operational dealings with vendors, customers, competitors and colleagues. At most, we stretch our context to include discretionary spending and CSR activities. But that’s where my argument takes root. It’s first of all a little ironic that ‘business-critical’ absolutely never includes learning…!

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Learnnovators

APRIL 26, 2022

I know it’s not just me, we’re all increasingly getting drawn into (or witnessing) heated intellectual clashes the last few years, online and offline. These clashes may be political, social, cultural – the subjects vary, but the vehemence and acrimony are constants. That’s why it seemed a good time to reset by reminding myself of something that changed the way I involved myself in debates.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Labor Market is changing fast. New jobs are being created at a record rate, remote work has now become standard fare, and the demand for service jobs is explosive. According to EMSI, there are 24% more jobs in the US than there were a year ago. What are all these jobs? They’re in healthcare, distribution, software development, design, and even retail and entertainment.

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Learnnovators

JULY 18, 2021

SANYA TALWAR WALKS THE POSH TALK WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT SANYA TALWAR: Sanya Talwar is an independent legal services professional with diverse experience. Her scope of work includes assisting organizations from diverse sectors on the law against sexual harassment & on adopting gender-sensitization. Her advisory, training and inquiry skills come with solid legal and psycho-social acumen & her eventful legal career that spans over 7 years.

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Learnnovators

MAY 23, 2021

BOB MOSHER - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT BOB MOSHER: Bob Mosher is a senior partner, and the Chief Learning Evangelist, at APPLY Synergies , a strategic consulting firm that specializes in helping learning organizations design, develop and measure effective learning and performance support strategies to meet The 5 Moments of Learning Need.

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Learnnovators

MAY 3, 2021

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APRIL 5, 2021

MARGIE MEACHAM - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT MARGIE MEACHAM: Author and Learning Consultant Margie Meacham first became interested in helping people learn when she was a little girl struggling with first grade. While she didn’t discover it until much later, Margie is dyslexic and was finding it hard to keep up with her classmates. Eventually she figured out how her mind works and graduated high school as her class valedictorian and summa cum laude from her Bachelor and Master’s lev

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Dr. RAJINI SRIRAMAN WALKS THE POSH TALK WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT Dr. RAJINI SRIRAMAN: Dr. Rajini Sriraman is the Vice President – HR & Admin at Esskay Design & Structures Pvt. Ltd. She is a senior psychologist and a human resources leader with over 20 years of versatile organizational expertise. Dr. Rajini is a people-oriented, passionate facilitator and a competent communicator who has created robust development programs that led to sustainable people and organizational transformations

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 20, 2021

JULIE DIRKSEN - CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT JULIE DIRKSEN: Julie Dirksen is the author of the book Design For How People Learn and an independent consultant and instructional designer who has more than 20 years’ experience creating highly interactive e-Learning experiences for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to innovative technology startups to major grant-funded research initiatives.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Dr. RIMA GHOSE CHOWDHURY WALKS THE POSH TALK WITH LEARNNOVATORS. ABOUT Dr. RIMA GHOSE CHOWDHURY: As EVP and CHRO, Dr. Rima Ghose Chowdhury leads Datamatics HR functions globally, with operations in the US, India, Middle East, Europe, and the Philippines. A seasoned HR leader and practitioner with over two decades of experience in Corporate and Academia, Dr.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 18, 2020

ABOUT HEMA MANI: Hema Mani is Head of HR, Asia Pacific at Lennox International. She has over 25 years of experience in a Strategic Human Resources capacity, with wide-ranging multinational experiences from Kelly Consultants, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jain Group of Institutions, i2 Technologies and Honeywell. She is a certified Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, Lean Sigma Green Belt Assessor and certified OD Facilitator.

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Learnnovators

MAY 12, 2013

C2 Workshop has reincarnated itself… as LEARNNOVATORS! Headquartered in Chennai (India), C2 creates innovative and effective elearning solutions for a worldwide clientele. Since its inception in 2003, C2 has designed, developed and delivered 5000+ hours of customized learning content for corporates around the globe. As it approaches its 10th anniversary, C2 has reinvented itself… born again in an all new avatar, as LEARNNOVATORS.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 27, 2013

It was while writing his thesis in 1952 that Donald Kirkpatrick became interested in evaluating training programs. In a series of articles published in 1959, he prescribed a four-stage model for evaluating training programs, but it was not until 1994, that he published “ Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels “. According to Kirkpatrick, evaluating training programs is necessary for the following reasons: 1.

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Learnnovators

JULY 8, 2013

There is a Buddha in all of us. Kindness galore, when we try to impart knowledge to others. “Hey, don’t you worry, awright?! This is so simple you’ll love doing it.” Perfect! This really works big time. Psychology! It’s the best way to motivate someone to learn without much fuss. But, it works just the other way round for me. I get stumped when I get to hear such so called motivational words.

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Learnnovators

JULY 12, 2013

How vividly I remember the awe-inspiring impact such wizard characters had on my psyche, when I was a kid! Especially those creations of J.R.R. Tolkien! They would take me along to an ethereal world and let me ‘live’ with them. Back to the real world and I accost the wizard in a different avatar. As a computer terminology! How is that? Where is the connect?

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Learnnovators

JULY 20, 2013

There is a beauty in these railway tracks. It’s not just about the scenic landscapes they take us through, but the way they are structured too. The mathematical precision behind their ‘parallel’ architecture is what gives traction to the long, serpentine body of the train to slide over them at tremendous speed. Imagine a micrometer deviation in the architecture.

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Learnnovators

JULY 26, 2013

I get on to designing an e-induction program for an organization that has branches across the globe. The agenda is to inculcate new employees with its philosophy and principles. I write, “As an organization, we do not believe in graveyard shifts”, referring to the 12AM to 8AM schedule. And, I beam with immense satisfaction on having added ‘color’ to an otherwise mundane stuff.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 9, 2013

Introduction. Today, we live in a technology-driven world that forces us to spend most of our time using many types of digital devices. Though it might be alarming for some to know that the digital footprints we leave behind each and every second could be tracked for various purposes (good and bad), it is exciting for us as learning professionals to think of the possibilities of putting these digital breadcrumbs to better use in the learning and development landscape.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 15, 2013

Disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors — in the same way that a square is a rectangle but not all rectangles are squares. ” ~ Forbes Magazine. INTRODUCTION. e-Learning is dynamically evolving, thanks to the incredible achievements in highly powerful and intelligent tools and technologies that are rapidly emerging. These developments have expanded the possibilities of taking e-learning to great heights more than ever.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 20, 2013

“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” ~ C. S. Lewis. INTRODUCTION. Information is power. And, it is the core requisite to construct knowledge. In this knowledge era, people who can locate information quickly are considered to be more knowledgeable than those who carry information with them.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 28, 2013

“The future of eLearning cannot be boring courses lacking engagement or emotional response…the future of eLearning must include games and gamification.” ~ Karl Kapp. INTRODUCTION. The revolution has begun! It is not just a fancy buzzword anymore. It is considered to be among the top five enterprise learning trends, according to forecasts by many leading educational technologists.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

“Too many teachers see education as preparing kids for the past, not the future.” ~ Marc Prensky. “Virtually everything new seems to come from the 20 percent of their time engineers here are expected to spend on side projects.” ~ Eric Schmidt (Ex-CEO, Google Inc.). INTRODUCTION. Let us start with a few interesting facts that are inspiring as well! Some of the most successful products from Google such as Google News, Google Earth, and Google Local were employee-initiated projects unrelated to its

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