Adventures in Corporate Education

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

Big Question: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?

November 14th, 2009 · No Comments

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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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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Learning Circuits Blog Big Question: What are your Challenges, Plans and Predictions for 2009

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

ASTD’s Learning Cirtuits Blog Big Question for January is What are your Challenges, Plans and Predictions for 2009?
Since I haven’t done my New Year’s post yet, I’ll just talk to this question.
Challenges
I’ll talk about the challenges from a personal level. How do I incorporate what I am learning about connected learning into my “day job”? [...]

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Big Question: What did you learn in 2008

December 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This month’s Big Question from ASTD’s Learning Circuits blog is What did you learn about learning in 2008?
I started grad school in the Fall of 2007. So this year I took the following courses:

Introduction to Instructional Systems
Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (I wrote a couple of papers for this [...]

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