Jane Bozarth
Director of Research, The Learning Guild
Jane Bozarth, the director of research for the Learning Guild, is a veteran classroom trainer who transitioned to eLearning in the late 1990s and has never looked back. In her previous job as leader of the State of North Carolina’s award-winning eLearning program, Jane specialized in finding low-cost ways of providing online training solutions. She is the author of several books, including eLearning Solutions on a Shoestring, Social Media for Trainers, and Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-To’s of Working Out Loud. Jane holds a doctorate in training and development and was awarded the Guild Master Award in 2013 for her accomplishments and contributions to the eLearning community.
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Nuts and Bolts: “Counterpunch”
Good eLearning relies more on creative, thoughtful design than on authoring tools. Many reasons why you “can’t do something” turn out to be myths.
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Nuts and Bolts: Learner Beliefs About Learning
We talk about learner “attitudes,” about learner engagement, and what motivates them to learn. But do learner beliefs about learning affect what and how they learn?
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Nuts and Bolts: Communities of Practice
How can a small group of people stamp out bad training and bad eLearning? They form, build, and grow a community of practice. You can do it too.
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Nuts and Bolts: Fluency in Design Skill Sets
An instructional designer needs to have some abilities in each of the skill sets identified in this article. How do you measure up?
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Nuts and Bolts: Working Out Loud Week 2017
“Working out loud” doesn’t mean broadcasting every moment of every day, or crowing about every accomplishment, or only showing final, polished work products. Rather, it’s a way of capturing the tacit knowledge that’s so hard to nail down: not just what we do but how we get things done. Here are some ways to capture that.
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Nuts and Bolts: Designing for Learner Success—First, Do No Harm
eLearning designers and developers spend a lot of time on assessments, particularly things like quizzes, knowledge checks, and tests. It’s easy to fall into blame-the-learner mode when they don’t do well. But sometimes, easily fixed design issues are the culprits.
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Nuts and Bolts: Social Tools for Learning: 2017
Social tools evolve quickly, and keeping up is a fun and sometimes daunting challenge. Are you one of those who can see past a tool’s usual use and find an interesting, different twist to take, one that can inspire learning pursuits? Here are some examples.
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Nuts and Bolts: Self-Directed Learning
How many ways do workers voluntarily, intentionally learn? There are more ways than conferences! From books to YouTube to social media, the list can get pretty long when you really think about it. Jane walks you through some methods, some examples, and maybe even some inspiration.
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Nuts and Bolts: The Best Lessons Learned in Instructional Design
Over the last 15 years, eLearning has evolved, from Authorware to PowerPoint to the proprietary tools and interactive, experiential, and social formats that we have today. The good news is that, while tools have come and gone and possibilities have expanded beyond imagining, some things haven’t changed. Jane summarizes the best of the lessons we’ve learned since the early 2000s.
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Nuts and Bolts: The Learner Experience
Happy New Year! Jane leads the year off with her review of topics from 2016.