Patti Shank
President, Learning Peaks
Patti Shank, the president of Learning Peaks, is an internationally known learning expert, researcher, author, and writer who has been named one of the 10 most influential people in eLearning internationally. She is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books. Patti was the research director for The eLearning Guild and an award-winning contributing editor for Online Learning Magazine, and her articles are found in the ATD Science of Learning and Senior Leaders Blogs and elsewhere.
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eLearning Guild Research: Thinking (Guild) Research at LSCon 2013 with Some Very Smart Folks
Imagine a breakout session with five opinionated Guild Research writers at the 2013 Learning Solutions Conference in Orlando, jam-packed with questions and laughter from both panelists and audience members. Here’s some of the fun (and information) from that session.
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eLearning Guild Research: Salaries 2013—Feeling Flat? You’re Not Alone!
The eLearning Guild’s Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report always attracts a lot of attention. Here is an overview guide to the report itself, which is a free download (linked in article). Take a look, see what the excitement is about, and use our official Guild Research Salary Calculator!
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2013 Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report
Patti Shank examines trends in compensation worldwide, exploring variance in areas such as gender, job title, and experience and providing a salary calculator to help readers figure baseline salaries.
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eLearning Guild Research: Reconsidering Bloom’s Taxonomy (Old AND New)
Bloom’s Taxonomy—the classification system used by countless instructional designers since the 1950s for creating learning objectives—has an updated version that brings it into the 21st century. The new taxonomy supports new methods of instruction and a new understanding of what learning is. Read about it in the latest eLearning Guild research report!
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What’s Changing in Your (Work) World?
In this report, Patti Shank provides many fascinating insights into how the learning/eLearning work world has changed for both managers and practitioners in the last five years.
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eLearning Guild Research: Do I Need to Know about HTML5?
What’s changing in your world of work? There’s almost certainly a lot more work, a lot more tasks, and a lot more variety. HTML5 is possibly a major part of this, and The eLearning Guild’s Research has plenty to say on the subject. Get an overview of it here.
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eLearning Guild Research: What Are the Benefits of Social Learning?
Many people think social learning is new, but it isn’t. What’s new is the ability of instructional designers to leverage online social media as a strategy to support learning. Research can help you make better use of the new social channel in your practice. Patti summarizes the benefits and points the way to recent research you can use!
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eLearning Guild Research: How Important is Informal Learning?
How critical is informal learning to workplace learning and performance? Here’s some food for thought from the Guild’s August 2012 research report, Smart Companies Support Informal Learning.
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Smart Companies Support Informal Learning
Are you spending the bulk of your employee training resources building courses? If so, it’s time to rethink your strategy. In this new report from Guild Research, Patti Shank explains how most workplace learning is informal. How can you support it? How can you measure it? One thing’s for sure: Your company needs it.
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eLearning Guild Research: Using Good Research to Improve Your Practice
Good learning research helps you improve your practice and make decisions. Here are a few of the important things to consider when looking at learning research.