Adventures in Corporate Education

I’m going to make this post quick, because I’m actually supposed to be working on a gap analysis for one of my classes.
A colleague and I have been presenting this presentation:
Social Media Ed Svcs Overview
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Basically, remember to:

Tie this to business needs
Show how it enables informal learning
Explain it will still require resources [...]

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The topic for ASTD’s September Big Question is working with SMEs. Before I start let me explain how we do this at EMC. Those of us who develop technical training are expected to become an SME in the technology for which we develop instruction. We have to understand more than how to do ID, we [...]

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July’s big question is very timely for me! Here is the question:
In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?
This week my Web 2.0 Learning and Performance [...]

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This month’s ASTD Big Question is all about how people have time to participate in social media. Here is the exact question:

How much time do you spend and how did you find time for all the relatively newer things like reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.?
What are you doing less of today than you were [...]

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Wow! This month the ASTD Big Question is about a blog post I wrote back in December! The post was called “I think grad school is making me crazy“.
Basically, I was venting my frustration about learning new ways of doing things while being in a role where I can’t implement change (it did not help [...]

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