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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back. Kill Kirkpatrick before he kills you.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

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This may be because designers only know about the Kirkpatrick “Levels.” What Erasmus could not have foretold was that his words of wisdom would still ring true almost exactly 500 years later but using the latest technology. Maslow (3). Here are two alternatives that may be far more practical. Does it Matter? What is mLearning?