IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you don’t train them and simply have someone “show them the ropes” then every employee is inconsistently trained, some are thrown to the sharks, and others are shown poor ways of using them which causes their own problems. Much of it does come from practice and working in the training industry for a long time, though.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, he believed it would be able to learn, and to apply that learning to solve problems beyond its program. He posited that it would one day be possible to build a computer that would be able to behave much like a human. Engage the computer in a conversation with multiple users for an extended period of time.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In this post we’ll talk about how you can use a mood board to save time on your next instructional design project. Every instructional designer can recall at least once project that looked simple at the start and crept into a massive, tangled mess by the time it was finished. A Mood Board Saves Time.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. Which brings us to the big problem with workplace collaboration tools and processes: motivation to participate. Unfortunately, this sounds too good to be true, and it is.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2010

Image via Wikipedia "Collaboration is a process through which people who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for the solution that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible." ~ Anecdote And informal learning is hinged on collaboration.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

To overcome this problem, I suggest using the 70:20:10 model as a lens through which you view your instructional design. Encourage the manager to engineer opportunities for the trainee to put their learning into practice. Set up a community of practice forum in which the trainee can ask questions in the moment.

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Matrix

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Apart from being good sponsors and ambassadors of a learning program, SMEs are able to save instructional designers a lot of time and effort. Because in today’s workplace people need to get their information on a need to know basis, PBL (problem based learning) is becoming increasingly popular. They can prioritize best.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

Reading Time: 8 minutes Introduction The Training, Learning, and Development Community recently hosted Learning by Doing: Games and Gamification for Instructional Design. Kevin Thorn’s session focused on visual literacy and how we can better communicate with more pictures and fewer words.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

But cobbling strategies together from various sources creates a different problem: they don’t always align perfectly. Lombardozzi: My doctoral research was on developmental relationships, so I’ve done a lot of reading of the research in the area of mentoring, peer development, and communities of practice.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Community management. Increasing interest in building and managing learning communities as part of blended programmes. Supporting self-organized communities of practice, and developing new community skills of practice, is a key area of work. Co-designing solutions to performance problems.

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Learnnovators

MARCH 21, 2016

To overcome this problem, I suggest using the 70:20:10 model as a lens through which you view your instructional design. Encourage the manager to engineer opportunities for the trainee to put their learning into practice. Set up a community of practice forum in which the trainee can ask questions in the moment.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In last night’s #lrnchat on instructional design,there was some discussion of the term ‘learning facilitator’ versus ‘trainer’ (which now I can’t find!?!), There was also a discussion on ITFORUM that expanded to discuss how experts are losing the problem-solving skills and how to develop them.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Your vision is that once the wiki site is up for awhile, your instructional designers can take some of the knowledge that’s posted and create a job aid, reference document, and so forth that could be distributed more formally. The problem isn’t really the number, however, it’s how they’re being organized.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 16, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List June 1, 2009 to June 12, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave?

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eLearning Learning Posts

JANUARY 3, 2011

ID - Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world? Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs - Experiencing eLearning , July 6, 2010. 25 places to find instructional videos - Jane Hart - Pick of the Day , February 8, 2010. Are you using ADDIE without realizing it?

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Vignettes Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

They opined that, "In discovery learning, participants learn to recognize a problem, characterize what a solution would look like, search for relevant information, develop a solution strategy, and execute the chosen strategy. In collaborative discovery learning, participants, immersed in a community of practice, solve problems together."

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Not a lot of instructional design, just getting people to share content. Support communities of practice around domains. ROI $3 Million for one project based on time saved finding solutions to problems. Community ratings help judge what’s valuable–self regulating. Doesn’t replace the LMS.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems.

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The Learning Circuits

JULY 9, 2012

One of the best things about being an instructional designer right now is that now more than ever we feel that our field is in the zeitgeist of what's happening in the media and technology worlds. What we do (rather, how we do it) is influenced greatly by technologies that support more flexible means of communication and collaboration.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 4, 2012

The term “course” is clearly inappropriate to describe an initiative that involves supporting informal learning, e.g. helping teams to establish Communities of Practice for knowledge sharing and continuous learning and performance improvement.

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Litmos

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Here, we need to share our different ideas, actively reconcile them, and then use that collective approach to solve the problem. In the case of informal learning, if you create a working community of practice, a learning community, you’re naturally getting these outputs. There are problems with this, of course.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 12, 2010

I hope that this taxonomy, along with the corresponding notes below, will assist you in using learning theory to inform your instructional design decisions. Models of memory provide the foundation for subsequent cognitivist theories that (arguably) have more direct implications for instructional design. .

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Vignettes Learning

JANUARY 18, 2019

This causes tremendous overload in our learning design. Learning by Doing : Problem-Solving Approach In today’s learning environment, the reality is that there are varied types of learners including those with technical or even medical orientation. Let them discover the problem and work to resolve it!

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Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

Over time, new technologies and approaches have expanded the definition to include instruction (classroom, e-learning, etc.), and methods of collaboration (social, communities of practice , etc.). cause the gap, solve the problem using other means. sources of information ( resource repositories , job aids, etc.),

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Hot Topic #7 – Changes in Design and Instructional Design and our Roles. No time for design? ADDIE is dead! Long live ADDIE! Top 6 Tips on Course Design from an Instructional Designer , February 12, 2009. The Various Roles of Instructional Design (work in progress) , June 5, 2009.

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Obsidian Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And from an instructional design perspective, it’s important to remember that mLearning isn’t always a good solution. You as the Instructional Designer will see that sometimes one size fits all will just not apply to your course. Mobile Learning (mLearning). Nobody wants to take a 30-minute WBT on a phone.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

that's a major problem here. Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. jadekaz: Addie tells us past. Moderator (Harold Jarche): ADDIE cannot help develop emergent practices - they're in th efuture, not the past; no best practices to model. also part of the A in ADDIE).

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eFront

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

You even have an effective community-of-practice style conversations under your courses. Managers and senior executives sometimes join in and provide their insights on a recurring problem. Action mapping concepts will encourage the design for interactive scenarios that replicate real-life activities.

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TalentLMS

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Research indicates that the best strategies to measure tacit or invisible knowledge is through developing a community of practice (COP) within your learning environment. As a course moderator, notice recurring problems and misunderstandings. Explicit knowledge is shared freely in your eLearning courses.

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Learnnovators

MAY 11, 2015

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. And therein lies the problem. Organizations fell prey to the vendors of social platforms believing that technology could solve the problem.

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Matrix

JULY 4, 2017

Immersive environments can offer learners rich and complex content-based learning while also helping them develop their technical, creative, and problem-solving skills. As a participation-based network, immersive environments allow users to build communities of practice, collaborate with peers in group work, and create and share content.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Expanding On The Nine Events Of Instruction - The eLearning Coach , April 19, 2010 The nine events of instruction are a compelling foundation for Instructional Design. Rather than declare ADDIE dead, wouldn’t it make more sense to be sure that we are using it properly? But a learner-generated model is needed too.

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Learnnovators

JULY 6, 2015

I spent the greater part of the weekend mulling over the practice of working out loud, what makes some folks adopt the habit with ease while others struggle, and what could be some of the possible enabling factors that support working out loud. A community grows through conversation, collaboration, and showcasing of work in progress.

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eLearning Strategy Strategy Blended Learning Community 133

eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 8, 2009

The Various Roles of Instructional Design (work in progress) - Jonathan’s ID , June 5, 2009. Discovering Instructional Design 12: the ICARE Model - The E-Learning Curve , June 11, 2009. ASSURE Model: Discovering Instructional Design 18 - The E-Learning Curve , June 24, 2009. Streams, not blogs?

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

Workers become problem solvers and innovators instead of cogs in the machine. Industrial-age training required flocks of instructional designers to develop training programs and instructors to deliver them. . • Enable workers to be all that they can be. Establish frameworks for continuous improvement.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

select custom-built courseware, provide post-training support, measure learning effectiveness, create mentoring/coaching frameworks, create frameworks that enable community-driven learning, and create and sustain Communities of Practice. Talk to stakeholders and SMEs, gather and assemble data and report back the findings.

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