Embracing Innovation in Learning
In her recent blog post Wonders or Woes of Change, Dr. Ellen Weber discusses the paradigm shift from traditional leadership to brain-powered, or innovative, leadership. This shift in leadership style...
View ArticleThe New Face of Blended Learning
I’ve been creating blended training solutions for years that look something like this: My model needs a face lift. I came across a couple of resources that have me thinking about it. Here’s the gist:...
View ArticlePersuasive Technology Could Be Key to Gaining User Adoption
We know that user adoption is critical for major software implementations to be successful. There are dozens of case studies and reports that illustrate how it’s not enough to get the technology...
View ArticleThe Social Learning Tool that Separates Us from the Apes
According to biologist Mark Pagel in his talk How Language Transformed Humanity, what separates us from chimpanzees is that they lack the capacity of cumulative adaptation. That is, over the millennia,...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Parents Question Value of Technology in Learning. Should We?
According to the recent New York Times series Grading the Digital School, parents in some of the most tech savvy places in America are questioning whether the investment in classroom technology is...
View ArticleThe Flipped Learning Revolution — Coming to a Brain Near You?
One of the concepts in training that has taken the biggest strides this year has been that of the “flipped classroom.” My colleague Jon Matejcek first covered it back in March in his article “Online...
View ArticleVideo Training – why it’s here to stay
I’ve been a movie and video nut for most of my life. Three high school friends and I produced a slew of super-8 movies that played to typically strong reviews (those I choose to remember anyway) in my...
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