Jennifer Neibert is a career learning professional who runs Brushfire Learning, a boutique firm creating custom solutions to engage learners and promote long-term performance sustainability. To the learning industry she brings more than 12 years of experience in eLearning and capacity building programs that improve the human condition in the U.S. and abroad. Jennifer’s work has taken her to four continents and allowed her the opportunity to present at several international and domestic conferences. She brings insight and understanding about our field and its challenges to her articles in the magazine.
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Agile Instructional Design: The Big Questions
Today’s instructional designers and eLearning developers are faced with an incredible amount of change. We work in a shifting business landscape, with new tools and processes, as we ensure our learners transfer knowledge and skills to on-the-job competence. AGILE instructional design is one approach that may help us meet these demands more quickly and effectively.
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Book Review: Manager’s Guide to Mobile Learning, by Brenda Enders
For managers who see the benefit of anytime, anywhere access to learning opportunities, the Manager’s Guide to Mobile Learning, by Brenda Enders, will help you see the potential and outline the path to success for your mobile learning initiatives. Enders provides practical insights essential for anyone looking to dive into the mobile learning pool.
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Real Life: MOOCs Filling Private-sector Skills Gaps
Recognizing a shortfall of talent with robust HTML5 skills, Boston-based staffing firm Aquent created a massive open online course (MOOC) that attracted 10,000 participants last summer. Aquent has placed almost 200 of those individuals in new positions so far, and they’re building more MOOCs to better connect marketing and creative talent with employers.
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Become a Volunteer: Change the World One Course at a Time
Whether you’re just getting started in eLearning or you’re an experienced practitioner looking for ways to continue building your portfolio, consider volunteering your skills and expertise to a nonprofit organization working to change the world. The opportunity to give back is incredibly rewarding, so step up and find an organization where you can donate your time and talents.
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16 Performance Support Tips, Strategies, and Tactics
Most workplace learning happens outside formal training course and classes. To effectively support and improve job performance, learning content must also be available when the learner needs it. Here are some tips from experts to get your learners the content they need when and where they need it. For more tips from these experts and others, sign up for the April 11 Online Forum!
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Book Review: Leaving ADDIE for SAM, by Michael Allen with Richard Sites
If you’re looking for the next must-read book for learning professionals, this is it. Michael Allen’s latest work, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, outlines his successive approximation model (SAM)—an approach that reduces the overall complexity of traditional instructional design processes, offering a more flexible, iterative, and productive model for today’s instructional designers and developers.
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Book Review: Unschooling Rules, by Clark Aldrich
For anyone who thinks education in America isn’t quite right and wants to do something about it, add Clark Aldrich’s Unschooling Rules to your summer reading list. This quick read of Aldrich’s 55 common-sense insights will surely pique your interest. And you may soon find yourself unlearning everything you know about schools in America today.
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Book Review: Learning Everywhere, by Chad Udell
Technical details? Check. Relevant examples? Check. Accessible writing style, practical advice, and clear explanations? Check, check, and check! With Learning Everywhere, Chad Udell has taken a somewhat arduous process and distilled it into a how-to manual that is a must read for anyone tasked with developing mobile learning content.
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Book Review: The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, by Karl M. Kapp
If you’re up to the challenge, Karl Kapp’s latest book offers best practices, design considerations, and pragmatic recommendations that will surely change the way you think about enhancing your learning initiatives through the use of games.