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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I’ve been thinking about fresh approaches to instructional design. Instructional design was invented around the time of World War II. Instructional purists still revere the logic of ADDIE. It’s hard to argue with the concept of planning your work, then working your plan.) Why isn’t Sally at work today?

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Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Here's why. Or discussed it in a chat room?

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 6 – Putting It All Together

Learnnovators

The goal of this series is to build upon good implementations of instructional design, and go deeper into the nuances of what makes learning really work. It is particularly focused on eLearning, but much of what has been mentioned also applies to face-to-face or virtual instruction. Having end user stakeholders (e.g.

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Q&A With Student from King's College

Kapp Notes

I had gotten the internship at, unbeknownest to me at the time, an instructional design company. I learned as much as I could in graduate school about designing instruction. While the tool was complex and detailed, it held such promise for computer-based instruction. Where, if anywhere, is such instruction lacking?

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Personal Learning Tools and Technologies

Tony Karrer

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 links: [link]

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Performance Support in 2015

Tony Karrer

We are already seeing this in terms of lots of startups aimed at particular elements of knowledge work. See Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? This is going to first take the form of hundreds of thousands of different little applications that each provide performance support for particular tasks.

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

“People think of quality as a constraint that creates an environment where innovation is not possible,” and yet “there’s a continuing demand for more products that are more cost effective,” she said. It’s not formal learning, e.g., instruction, it is informal learning, as Jay Cross documented in his 2006 book, “Informal Learning.”.