From the Coleface

JANUARY 27, 2014

At this year’s Learning Technologies show I’ve been invited by the eLearning Network to do a slot on ‘Ask the Expert’ about instructional design. I’ll be at stand 190 from 2-3pm on Wednesday 29 January, answering any questions you might have on instructional design.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 12, 2010

Academia is teeming with learning theories. It can be quite a challenge for the modern learning professional to identify an appropriate learning theory, draw practical ideas from it, and apply it to their daily work. Which theory do you choose? How does it relate to other theories? Where do you start?

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Rob Hubbard

MAY 5, 2010

Ministry of Instructional Design. Professional Networks. British Institute for Learning and Development. eLearning Network. Company Websites. LearningAge Solutions. Whehey #elndesigner in Sheffield tomorrow. Looking forward to being inspired : ) 4 hours ago. Find Your Creative Spark - [link] 7 hours ago.

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Learning Pool

JULY 17, 2020

Learning design has benefited greatly from the influence of user experience design (UXD) over the last decade. We talked to numerous experts on learning theory in the course of preparing our White Paper: Experience: Theory, Design and Supporting Technologies for an experience-based Learning Culture.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Because video is, apparently, a perfect manifestation of social learning theory. Instructional designers would be wise to become versed in basic video production, since its utility and ubiquity as a learning tool will only continue to grow. I think social learning must be informal and fun. Properly d.

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Philip's Learning

MARCH 31, 2023

Design is an integral part of our daily lives. From the clothes we wear to the websites we browse, design influences our perceptions and experiences. However, designing effectively is not always an innate skill. It requires learning and practice, and this is where instructional design comes in.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Medical students and residents regularly learn new skills by first observing a procedure, then practicing the procedure under supervision, and finally teaching, or modeling, the procedure for another. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Weber also points out how effectively additional techniques demonstrated in the movie – like music, movement, and humor – open the mind to learning. Finding ways to incorporate these elements can be difficult for instructional designers, curriculum developers, and, especially, creators of eLearning. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2011

It has been around for all of my 15+ years as an instructional designer and training developer, and goes back much further than that. On-demand is gaining ground quickly on traditional solutions and that is forcing our industry to reasses how we design, develop, and deploy learning solutions.

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Learnnovators

MARCH 29, 2014

THE QUOTE: “ Instructional Design is complex and overlaps with many fields. That’s why Instructional Design Guru defines terms from Instructional Design, Cognitive Psychology, Social Media, Multimedia, Technology and Law. The Instructional Design Guru is available for $2.99

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. What I hadn’t stopped to fully consider is why I would do that.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Small-world networks. Networks that have a small average shortest path length between nodes, along with high clustering coefficients, are known as “small world networks&#. In fact, many systems in the real world are small-world networks. Applicability to e-learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 I am currently the Director of Instructional Design and eLearning for Dashe & Thomson.In

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Academia needs a coherent learning theory, or set of theories, that provides guidance for building the road system so the cars can operate. We understand that social media, and at a higher level social learning, are crucial to course design moving forward. Trent gets it! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

Military May 19, 2011 Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves May 17, 2011 How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties May 11, 2011 Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ May 9, 2011 Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning May 5, 2011 Gregg Sean: Nice review of the topic , I was seeking to see wh.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

What’s your take on using social media for businesses purposes – be it instructional design, marketing, or otherwise? Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

In fact, it is this last group, the instructional designers and training developers of the world, who may actually have the most to gain if computers – and software – really do become Super one day. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? All you have to do is put their words to paper, design the desired instruction and begin training. However, just as often this makes an instructional designer’s job more difficult.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Over the last few days I’ve been working through Stephen Downes’ paper Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge. We may contrast cognitivism, which is a causal theory of mind, with connectionism, which is an emergentist theory of mind. we can identify the essential elements of network semantics.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 I am currently the Director of Instructional Design and eLearning for Dashe & Thomson.In

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Academia needs a coherent learning theory, or set of theories, that provides guidance for building the road system so the cars can operate. We understand that social media, and at a higher level social learning, are crucial to course design moving forward. Trent gets it! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2011

I like to imagine performance support as an Exobrain … (and, of course, that I am one of the smart people in learning … guess I will have to ask Simon about that.) As instructional designers, we can help create environments that grow better Exobrains. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. View all posts by Andrea → ← Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. View all posts by Andrea → ← Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Association eLearning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

If it’s not mobile responsive design, it’s going to be an annoying user experience on mobile devices. Microlearning is targeted learning in small bursts rather than a lengthy course on a topic. For example, suppose I want to learn how to enter basic formulas in Excel. How do you make online learning collaborative and social?

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

My question is whether the Four Levels hold together as an evaluation design, considering that they still focus on the training event. McGoldrick decided that the model to use in developing the evaluation design would be Scriven’s Key Evaluation Checklist (KEC). Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? I started thinking about this during a program on Accelerated Learning at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (MNISPI). Properly d.

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CommLab India

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

This is a fact; instructional design (ID) is going through dynamic changes as a fallout of research in the fields of education, technology, and learner behavior. ID will improve when designers get more insights into how people learn. Using emotional elements can help learning stay in long-term memory.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 2, 2011

Instruction must, therefore, be on an “as-needed&# basis, with concise, easily-accessible, role-based lessons allowing employees to learn in a way that promotes retention without causing burn-out. So what’s to be done to insure that this round of (much more lucrative) implementations go more smoothly than those in the past?

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Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Delicious 145

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Use the functional designs, to-be process diagrams, and test scripts to take a stab at learning objectives, an outline, and draft content before you meet with your SMEs. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Delicious 113

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Use the functional designs, to-be process diagrams, and test scripts to take a stab at learning objectives, an outline, and draft content before you meet with your SMEs. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager.

Social Networks 113

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Learnnovators

MARCH 29, 2014

THE QUOTE: “ Instructional Design is complex and overlaps with many fields. That’s why Instructional Design Guru defines terms from Instructional Design, Cognitive Psychology, Social Media, Multimedia, Technology and Law. The Instructional Design Guru is available for $2.99

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 21, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. I see myself as a translator, taking complex ideas and systems and making them easy for a learner to understand. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. I am currently the Director of Instructional Design and eLearning for Dashe & Thomson.In Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. I am currently the Director of Instructional Design and eLearning for Dashe & Thomson.In Properly d.

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