Rapid Instructional Design for Accelerated Learning
Created in the military during World War II, the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model has dominated curriculum design for the last 40 years. It is still taught in universities and by most...
View ArticleGamification in Workplace Learning: The Role of Play
This month, the Learning Circuits Blog is back with its first “real” big question since Tony Karrer took a break from managing the blog. In the new format of a different industry thought leader...
View ArticleSocial Learning Demonstration: How to Be a Backup Singer
We talk a lot about social learning on this site. And we link to lots of others who talk – and talk, and talk. Sure, it’s all very smart and worthwhile, but sometimes you have to go out on a limb and...
View ArticleSocial Learning in Financial Services – Tales from the Real World
I sat down with Shane Raymond, Director of Training and Development at RBC Wealth Management, the US Wealth Management division of Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada, to discuss social learning. Shane,...
View ArticleRoad Hazard: Learning at the Moment of Need
Last week I discovered that “learning at the moment of need” is perhaps not the most effective way to learn. In fact, it can be downright risky business and quite unpleasant. On a recent trip to New...
View ArticleWhat’s New In Enterprise Learning?
Due to the holiday weekend, we decided to give our bloggers some much needed rest. But not before we asked them to share a few of their favorite stories from the world of learning. Below are some...
View ArticleCan Learnist Hold the Key to Enterprise Social Learning?
I really enjoy following the learning frontier, reading about and analyzing the latest developments in learning tools and methodologies. My last two blog posts were reactions to augmented reality, a...
View ArticleWhat’s the ROI on Disengaged Employees?
Training evaluation appears to be the Holy Grail of the L&D world. It’s one of the hottest topics in the blogosphere and at conferences (see Barbara Camm’s highly trafficked posts on evaluation),...
View ArticleThe Advantages of Knowledge Sharing
One of the hardest lessons to learn growing up is how to share… how to share your toys, your candy, and maybe your room with a sibling. As a child, it is difficult to get past the thought “but, it’s...
View ArticleEvaluating Informal Learning
My colleague, Andrea May came back from ASTD International Conference & Exposition (ICE), which was held in Dallas in May of this year, raving about a presentation on “Evaluating Informal...
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