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Marc My Words: Why I Hate ADDIE
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”—Albert Einstein
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Are You Ready to Deliver Personalized Learning?
Training organizations are moving toward an ideal: personalized learning. However, there is little agreement about what “personalized learning” means. In this article, the authors examine what personalized learning is in the corporate environment, and how organizations can prepare to meet this new learning need.
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Nuts and Bolts: Expectations
How can you spark a conversation between 12,000 employees in 66 countries … simultaneously? Kimberly-Clark did it, and it worked because they recognized that if you want people to really connect via social tools you’ll allow room for human conversation. Just like in “real life.” Read about the experience, and the unexpected outcomes here!
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Mobile eLearning Design: How to Survive Your First mLearning Project
Developing your first mLearning application is likely to present some new challenges, but planning ahead will smooth your path to success! Here is a step-by-step guide to managing the process and the project.
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Toolkit: So Many Tools, So Much Time
Joe has reviewed many of the better-known authoring and eLearning development tools. There are many other tools that don’t get much market recognition, yet they have enthusiastic users. Here’s your chance to tell Joe which ones you would like to know more about—he’ll provide summary reviews later this year for the most-requested and those he considers the best.
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Embrace the Benefits of Safe Failure
Including ongoing performance support as part of the solution strategy underlying the design of formal learning is good insurance against later failure. The failure may go undetected until it produces a disaster! The design process ought to include identifying and supporting tasks to allow learning through safe failure. Here’s how you can do that.
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Brain Science: The Neuroscience of Teaching and Learning
The human brain is enormously powerful. It contains and controls our memories, our passions, our thinking, and our learning. Successful eLearning applications must work in a way that is compatible with the way the brain learns. Today we introduce a new column that will explore what neuroscience is finding out about the way the 100 billion nerve cells in the brain function!
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Make the Most of SME Interview Time!
Instructional designers interview subject matter experts as part of the front-end analysis stage of design and while planning and creating instruction and performance support materials. The quality of these interviews can determine the quality of the results, so here are some valuable tips for planning, conducting, and following up on your time with the experts!
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Book Review: Immersive Learning, by Koreen Olbrish Pagano
Games, simulations, virtual worlds, alternate reality games (ARGs), and 3-D immersive environments… For anyone curious about the relationship between these mediums, or looking for commonsense guidance for designing such experiences, make a note to add Koreen Olbrish Pagano’s Immersive Learning to your reading list in 2014.
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Marc My Words: The Training to Competence Myth
There is an assumption that training provides enough learning and support to launch someone right to proficiency and competence the moment they leave the classroom. If the training is great and the learners learn, we are told, they ought to be able to perform competently from day one. This is hardly ever the case. Here’s why, and what to do about it.