There is no shortage of optimism among learning professionals about the positive impact that today's new technologies are having on the learning and development profession. Chris Pirie, chairman of the ASTD Board of Directors, asserts that now is...
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Gamification is the process of applying gaming designs and concepts to learning or training scenarios in order to make them more engaging and entertaining for the learner.
“Incidental learning” is currently a hot topic. It is a method of learning by simply being there. The learner does not need to travel far or enroll in a virtual training class, but learns from seeing, asking questions, and maybe doing. Often people...
Content curation is the process of identifying, organizing and sharing relevant learning resources to support specific skills, roles or business needs. Rather than creating new content from scratch, curation focuses on...
Close your eyes for a second and visualize a relay race. The runners get set in their starting blocks. The gun goes off. The contestants begin running, batons in hand, racing to get the baton to their anxiously awaiting teammate. The baton is passed...
In October of 2007, I co-authored an article for Training Industry, Inc. titled "The Training Value Gap." The thesis of the article was that delivering small nuggets of learning incrementally, rather than waiting until the entire learning program was...
Blackboard Inc. is known primarily as the leading learning management system provider (LMS) in higher education today, but it has also been growing throughout the corporate sector through its Professional Education division that was started in 2005.
In August 2012, my team at DTCC Learning (DTCCL) reconfigured our organizational structure and adopted Agile as our approach to developing learning solutions. We did this in order to address client expectations for instant access to information, frequent...
Imagine that you wanted to lose weight so you decided to start an exercise program. One way to begin could be to research and study all of the best exercise practices and then interview exercise experts after which time you could visit all of the gyms in...
When executives need to transform business and operations, they launch an initiative or project to accomplish their goals. The success of the initiative or project is entirely dependent on the adoption and execution of the new ways of working. Reaching...