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What are you reading for eLearning insight?

Integrated Learnings

Books about training, consulting, and trendy business topics. Take a moment to browse the online bookstores of the International Society for Performance Improvement ( ISPI ) or the American Society for Training and Development ( ASTD ), and you’ll likely find a year’s worth of reading ideas. What are your favorite bloggers reading?

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ASTD ICE 2009 -Impressions

Web Courseworks

I’ll confess that I may not have been at the ASTD conference every day this past week, but I do have some impressions of the event I’d like to share. I was a little disappointed that ASTD decision makers, whoever you are, did not put the eLearning vendors together. ” Tags: ASTD Elaine Biech Game Based Learning.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Kirkpatrick says new knowledge and skills don’t translate to actual business value unless they are transferred to new on-the-job behavior. You can draw on the “before-and-after” business and human resource metrics that are readily available in any company. It was an opportunity I couldn’t miss. Level 3: Behavior.

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Workplace Trends from 2004…Still Trending

Integrated Learnings

One dusty cover that caught my eye was the January 2004 issue of Training + Development Magazine from ASTD, with this headline: 8 Trends You Need to Know NOW. Globalization is making our workforces increasingly interconnected, with a rise in offshoring many business functions. --4-- Know the business, grow the business.

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Measuring Impact (or not)

Clark Quinn

So I saw a twitter thread pointing to an argument about how ROI is dead. Business impact. If it’s like what I saw in (then) ASTD’s State of the Industry report, it’s metrics like employees served per L&D employee or cost/seat/hour for training. And, well, that’s largely okay with me. ROI measures.

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Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

Kapp Notes

This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Address a Business Need The most important element in communicating the value of Social Media is to solve a pressing business need. But they do care about what others are thinking.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Thoughts on ASTD

Learning Visions

Sunday, June 07, 2009 Thoughts on ASTD This past week, I spent Monday and Tuesday at the ASTD International Conference & Expo in DC. But more important than all that, and what you, my fellow bloggers/twitterers will be most interested in, are all the cool bloggers/tweeple I got to meet face to face! Wendy Wickham.

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