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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: 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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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.
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eLearning Guild Research: What’s Research Good For, Anyway?
Read any good research lately? The eLearning Guild is committed to providing regular research reports on a variety of topics to the eLearning Community of Practice. Far from being “pie-in-the-sky,” research exists to help you improve what you deliver. Here are the thoughts of the Guild’s research director on what you can expect in coming months.
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Beginning Instructional Authoring: Readability Statistics Help You Sound Human
Does your content read like a history textbook or a government document? It doesn’t have to be dry as dust. Here’s how to use tools you probably already have to put some life into learning!
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Beginning Instructional Authoring: Getting Good Scenario Content from SMEs
Do you have trouble getting “the right content” from subject matter experts? This is a typical problem that many instructional designers have. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to fix. Here’s how!
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Beginning Instructional Authoring: Getting the Content You Need from SMEs, Part 1
Getting content from your subject matter experts (SMEs) can be a bit of a nightmare. This situation is a common one and it’s a problem that does have a solution, although not a solution that is used as often as it could be. Here’s Part One of a short series on dealing with reluctant SMEs.