article thumbnail

How to Use the Learning Ecology Matrix to Make Better Learning

Maestro

The Learning Ecology Matrix is a model for blended learning promoted by Dr. Mike Wenger & Chuck Ferguson for Sun Microsystems. At the bottom of the Y-axis, learning is instructor-led (teaching and coaching) and at the top, it’s learner-navigated (studying). The bottom left quadrant focuses on guided content delivery, or teaching.

article thumbnail

Friday Finds — Primitive Brain, ChatGPT Productivity, Steal Like an Artist

Mike Taylor

It’s been raining here for months and I’ve seen more sun in my week than they’ve seen in a long time. But, science has developed various effective methods to help us break bad habits and cultivate healthier ones. While I didn’t have time to venture as far as I’d like, what I’ve seen is amazing.

Brain 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

#DevLearn 2012: Kapp Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Posing for a picture with former student Xiaomei (Ivy) Sun who is creating a lot of elearning in China. Trainees learn more from simulations games that are embedded in a program of instruction than when simulation games are the sole instructional method. You want to teach leaders about Strategy: Have them Play Civilization V.

DevLearn 242
article thumbnail

This Week in Learning – November 10, 2015

The Learning Dispatch

John McIntyre, editor at the Baltimore Sun (to whom I’ve linked before), gives us a short and moving piece on his shift from prescriptivism to a less strict application of traditional rules of grammar. Teaching the Value of the Internet. Meaningless Edits. When we develop learning, we often write. Remember the interrobang?

Sun 40
article thumbnail

This Week in Learning - November 10, 2015

The Learning Dispatch

John McIntyre, editor at the Baltimore Sun (to whom I’ve linked before), gives us a short and moving piece on his shift from prescriptivism to a less strict application of traditional rules of grammar. Meaningless Edits When we develop learning, we often write.

Sun 40
article thumbnail

Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

A Formula for Storytelling in eLearning - Integrated Learnings , April 6, 2010 When a client asked our team to develop a sales skills enhancement course, we opted to base the training on the methods of the most successful sales person in the department. The first course was designed to teach new sales reps basic electrical terminology.

article thumbnail

Interview with 3D Pioneer Randy Hinrichs, CEO of 2b3d–Part One

Kapp Notes

Randy Hinrichs is CEO of 2b3d , a company dedicated to building Internet based strategies and solutions employing usability methods to drive metrics based transformation. Randy is also faculty at the University of Washington, where he developed and teaches the Certificate in Virtual Worlds in the iSchool.