Adventures in Corporate Education

This is my response to last week’s #lrnchat. I was inspired to write it after watching an internal (EMC) discussion about training.
Anyone can perform the ID function
You heard me correctly. ANYONE.
I have to say I was so disappointed in last week’s #lrnchat when everyone kept dissing SMEs.
For my readers who are not education folks, ID [...]

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A few days ago Clive Shepard wrote a post entitled What’s the Problem with Kirkpatrick?
Who is Kirkpatrick?
For those of you who aren’t all geeky about instructional design, Donald Kirkpatrick came up with the four levels of instruction back in the late 1950s.  The four levels (according to Kirkpatrick) are:

Level 1: Reactions – measures how participants [...]

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I’ve posted before about the Dick & Carey method of instructional design – while I was taking a class based on the Dick & Carey method. This method of instructional design is very popular because it represents a systems method of designing instruction. Click on the image below to see a diagram of how this [...]

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I really like the posts on the blog Corporate eLearning Strategies & Development. This post gets right to the point of what Corporate Learning departments really need to focus on – enabling the performance of our audiences.
From the post:
Here is a good example of a battle you should stop fighting:  Training Departments taking responsibility for [...]

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In my last post I talked about the learning environments (LEs) we as developers create for students, and the Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) students create to situate themselves so that they can master the course objectives. In this post I want to explore the instructor’s role in helping students get over barriers they have to [...]

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