Adventures in Corporate Education

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

McKinsey Report: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

As you know if you are following me on twitter, this semester I am taking two performance classes. This means I’m paying more attention to things that measure performance and performance gaps. Since I’m always hyper-focused on social media, I’m also looking at how emerging tools can be used to close performance gaps.
This report from [...]

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Tags: performance

Blogging my Homework

August 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In my Human Performance Theory class, we have to turn in Executive Summaries (ES) and mindmaps for selected readings each week. Since I know so many people who are experts on performance, I thought I’d share what I am doing on this blog.
Background
OK, I’m doing this for selfish reasons – I know my PLE is [...]

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Tags: EME6691

Fall Semester Starts Tomorrow

August 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

Fall semester starts tomorrow. Part of me is anxious, mostly because I am already so busy I’m not sure what my class load is going to do to my life.
But the other part of me is really excited. I was one of those nerds who loved going back to school because it meant you got [...]

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Tags: grad school

Systems approach of designing instruction

April 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: instructional design · work