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The New Way of Things.

There Is No Chalk

One of the big questions many WLP professionals have had of late concerns the pace with which technologies are changing and presenting new options for them, either for development or implementation. Personally, I think that it's futile for those in training and human performance improvement roles to try staying on the bleeding edge.

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LC's Big Q: How To Make The Case For Social Media?

There Is No Chalk

The question is how to sell the use of social media (SM) for training and performance improvement purposes in the workplace, particularly when there may be fellow colleagues and/or management that may be not familiar with or are biased against it. As a WLP professional that uses SM.

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He Had a Bad Day

Tony Karrer

And good luck with getting us to stop using the term learning instead of training. I'd personally rather have us talk performance, but the industry has landed on learning, e.g., CLO, LMS, WLP, oh and eLearning. So learning is better than training as a term. Of course, when I think about it, we should be talking outcomes.

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Informal Learning And the Empowerment of Curiosity

There Is No Chalk

Tags: performance informal wlp wiki research training learning workplace.

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Esse quam videri

The Learning Circuits

T+D (formerly called Training & Development) is the magazine of ASTD (formerly known as the American Society for Training & Development). The cover story of the last issue tells WLP (workplace learning and performance) professionals that Business Acumen is Priority One. Am I being too subtle?

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Learning Styles: What Is All the Fuss About?

OpenSesame

Workplace Learning & Performance (WLP) is a contemporary definition crafted to encompass the various aspects and practices that are a part of the field. . “ Learning Styles: It’s a Bit More Complicated than That “, Owen Ferguson.

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CLO's Top Stories of 2012

There Is No Chalk

Indeed, a couple of the stories seem to conflict ("Change Management vs. Change Leadership" and "Rise of the Change Manager"), many are the obvious ("The Best Approach to Training", "Stop Long, Boring Staff Training; Start Short, Social Learning Modules"), others are laments ("Intelligence Lost: The.

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