It’s always interesting to look at conference themes to get a sense of the trends and important topics. Agility was an undercurrent that caught my attention at the ASTD International Conference & Expo (ICE). Once John Seely Brown addressed the topic in his keynote presentation, I noticed the concept in many places. Dr. Brown spoke of entrepreneurial learners who embody the agility to learn in any situation or environment. Estimated
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Webinar Recording: Why Public Facing Training?
A recording of Linda Warren’s presentation on What Makes Good Public Facing Training at Elearning Symposium 2013 in Austin.
READ MORE about Webinar Recording: Why Public Facing Training?First Impressions: Books Are Judged by the Cover
Why do people say, “You can’t judge a book by its cover?” We make snap decisions all the time and those decisions are based on the first impression, which metaphorically speaking, is the book cover. Books by Chip Heath and Dan Heath got me thinking about their high impact book covers and how important first impressions are to online training. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes For the uninitiated, Chip Heath
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Recently, my wife and I rented a minivan for a family trip to Taos, NM. The dashboard computer for the vehicle supplied a mind-boggling number of metrics, including arrival time at destination, trip mileage, miles to empty, average miles per gallon, instantaneous miles per gallon, etc. On the ten-hour drive through the monotonous scenery of West Texas, I got a bit bored and started trying to optimize some of the
READ MORE about Training Metrics that Matter: Thoughts from a West Texas Road TripMischief Managed: What “Harry Potter” Can Teach You About Managing Elearning Projects
Kelly Rossi has been project manager at Microassist since November 2007. She maintains the scope, budgets, and timelines of client projects. Kelly earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin and worked as a project manager for four years before joining Microassist. Other content by Kelly includes her 2016 post, “The Client’s Critical Role in Custom Elearning Development. Mischief Managed: What “Harry Potter” Can Teach
READ MORE about Mischief Managed: What “Harry Potter” Can Teach You About Managing Elearning ProjectsControversy over Objectives – How to Communicate Objectives to your Learners
We all know that objectives provide the foundation for training design and performance improvement. A challenge in the training industry is how to communicate this information to our target audience without creating a mind-numbingly dull introduction. Novices in the training world frequently think the only legitimate way to start a lesson is with the list of learning or performance objectives we used as the framework to design the training. My
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Whenever I’m asked to explain project management concepts, I’m always eager to do it. Not only do I enjoy sharing the knowledge, but I also enjoy doing it in a way that ties in to what’s going on in my life. What’s going on right now you may ask? A new house—and it needs furniture, so these days I practically live at Ikea. It’s burned in my brain. So when
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Dr. BJ Fogg, director of Stanford’s Persuasive Tech Lab, presented a compelling keynote at mLearnCon 2012 centered around a fascinating question: Can computers be designed to change people’s beliefs and behaviors? The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab creates insight into how computing products—from websites to mobile phone software—can be designed to change what people believe and what they do. Unlike a lot of pop culture behavior gurus, Dr. Fogg takes a
READ MORE about mLearnCon 2012 – BJ Fogg A Methodology for Designing Behavior ChangeAre Learning Differences between Generations A Myth?
Generational Learning Differences: Myth or Reality? Compared to differences between generations there are probably few questions in learning and development where people have expressed so many different opinions. Where does that leave learning and development professionals when it comes to figuring out what matters in designing workplace training? Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Generations in the Workforce Talking about generational differences is difficult because while there is vague agreement on
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Have you just been assigned an elearning project? Ready to start planning the project. An essential component of planning an elearning project is figuring out the skill sets needed on your elearning team to complete the project. Ready to pull together your team? What skills do you need on your team to create quality elearning? How many people? Most large E-learning projects are carried out by multiple people. At Microassist we divide our
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