Adventures in Corporate Education

or, how my graduate studies are affecting my job in corporate education

Where I’ll be in November

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Besides working on my two performance classes, I’ll also be attending a couple of Boston-based events.
Tues Nov 3 I’ll be at the Mass chapter of ISPI to hear Cammy Bean talk about eLearning authoring tools. Several other #lrnchat folks will be there too.
Tues Nov 17 I’m planning to go to the Greater Boston ASTD meeting [...]

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July’s Big Question: New Skills for Learning Professionals

July 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

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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ASTD Big Question: What will workplace learning be like in 10 years?

March 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This month’s Big Question from ASTD is “what will workplace learning be like in 10 years?”. If you go to their post, there are already some really interesting thoughts and comments about this topic.
Byron said “The best prophet of the future is the past”. I’m a firm believer in that notion, so I’d like to [...]

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Feb T&D has a fantastic article on common pitfalls of blended learning

February 6th, 2009 · No Comments

The latest Training and Development magazine (from ASTD) has a very relevant article to some of the work I am doing this quarter for my organization. The article is titled It’s [Not] the Technology, Stupid. The article is about the pitfalls of thinking just because you have the technology to do it it that you’ll [...]

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What’s a “To Learn” List

September 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This month’s Big Question over on the Learning Circuits Blog is about To-Learn lists. Here are the specific questions:

If you have a to-learn list and are willing to share, and willing to share how you work with that list, that would likely be helpful information.
As Knowledge Workers, work and learning are the same, so how [...]

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