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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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APRIL 28, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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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!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

McGoldrick described an approach to evaluating training that wasn’t just about changes in learner behavior but about learners integrated with and interacting within their own workplace. My question is whether the Four Levels hold together as an evaluation design, considering that they still focus on the training event. But it wasn’t.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2011

So now, I resolve to promote interactive, “do-it” training whenever feasible. What other good eLearning resolutions are out there? Since I had some time, I intentionally decided to find the route through trial-and-error, starting only with the end address (in essence “doing”). Out with being told, in with doing… hurrah!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The applications everyone from Wired to the Wall Street Journal are talking about are altering the way we interact with each other, the way we purchase goods and services, and the way we learn. What’s your take on using social media for businesses purposes – be it instructional design, marketing, or otherwise?

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

The difference: peer-to-peer interaction. That’s why this post from Frank Noschese is so great. He contrasts two teaching methods that involve different kinds of whiteboards: one that costs $2,000, and one that costs $2.

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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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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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MAY 18, 2011

In addition to the use of video games for recruitment purposes, which have been available for some time, the Department of Defense has begun embracing the use of combat simulators, culture-based eLearning , avatars, and even cell phone apps, all designed specifically for military use. Properly d.

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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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MARCH 21, 2011

What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. The now-common blended learning practice of assigning one or more eLearning modules prior to attending classroom training is similar to the Khan/schoolteacher model.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

As instructional designers, we can help create environments that grow better Exobrains. Web-based learning portals are the ultimate brain food — extending brain power by positioning learning and How-To reference material close to the job, 24/7. Properly d.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, August 23, 2007 Kineos August Rapid e-Learning Newsletter If youve been following my blog for awhile, then you already know how I feel about the folks at Kineo. This months newsletter is no exception.

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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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MAY 11, 2011

Learning and development professionals should remember the Weak Ties theory when designing social learning systems. It’s not enough for people within functional areas (clusters) to connect. The real challenge, and value, is to find tools and processes that help people connect and think “outside the cluster.&#

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Software tools such as Articulate Presenter or Adobe Presenter allow you to transition your current PowerPoint into a streamlined e-Learning modules complete with narration, interactive quizzes, and Flash-based output compression. Properly d.

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FEBRUARY 22, 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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FEBRUARY 22, 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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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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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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MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning. Properly d.

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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. Properly d.

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APRIL 12, 2011

View all posts by Paul → ← Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. We All Did. Properly d.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator. Properly d.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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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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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Some see us as instructional designers, some as technical writers, others as change management consultants, and still others as a supplemental staffing agency. The discussion with this trainer made me think of several recent conversations I’ve had with Dashe & Thomson clients. Properly d.

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MARCH 29, 2011

As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. Properly d.

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APRIL 17, 2011

Tom Gram, in the February 17, 2011 post on his Performance X Design blog, says that our training programs are working when we can point to evidence and linkages in performance terms. You can draw on the “before-and-after” business and human resource metrics that are readily available in any company. That’s all we usually need, he says.

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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. Properly d.

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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. Properly d.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

In the new culture of learning, people learn through their interaction and participation with one another in fluid relationships that are the result of shared interests and opportunity. The important thing about the Harry Potter phenomenon is not so much what the kids were learning, but how they were learning.

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