Adventures in Corporate Education

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

Instructional Systems Award Ceremony

April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I was nominated for the “Best Distance Learning Student” in the awards ceremony for my school this year. I didn’t win – a very honorable classmate of mine did (way to go Matt!!).
Three of the nominees and our professor met each other on Landis Green in Second Life. Apparently they also had it displayed while [...]

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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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I think grad school is making me crazy

December 12th, 2008 · 8 Comments

I thought I’d just share my new theory on why I feel like I am going crazy. Those folks closer to me may have other more valid theories, but this is my blog so I get to talk about my ideas!
I’m learning so much in my program. I’m learning about things like instructional theories, learning [...]

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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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Fun with Dick & Carey in the real world

November 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This semester I am taking a class called “Introduction to Instructional Design”. We are stepping through Dick, Carey & Carey’s textbook The Systematic Design of Instruction. The book examines the Dick and Carey model of instruction in detail. Here’s a diagram of that model (click the picture to see a larger version):

As with all models [...]

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