Adventures in Corporate Education

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

Want to see my final projects from the Spring Semester?

April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I am done with this semester. YAY!!!
Here’s a look at the final projects for my classes.
In one class, we spent the semester carrying out a mini-study. My team looked at this question: Do people who say that they want to “live green” actually buy cleaning products that are environmentally friendly?
Here’s our final paper (its the [...]

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Tags: grad school

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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Tags: work

Help me vet my eLearning project topic – Interacting with Adults with Asperger’s

February 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I have to write an eLearning module for my eLearning class.  Gladly accepting any suggestions…
The topic is going to be:
How do you identify and interact with an adult with Executive Functioning issues?
Two learning objectives:

The learner will identify behavioral issues displayed by adults with executive functioning issues

The learner will identify strategies to diffuse situations brought on [...]

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PLE construction, instructors, & converting Instructor led learning to eLearning

February 1st, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: instructional design