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  • Deeper Instructional Design
    Presentation: Deeper Instructional Design: Cognitive Science and How People Really Learn Presenter: Clark Quinn (yup ... Opportunities - Focus on knowledge, not skills - Over produced, under designed - Lack of emotional engagement - Uninformed by ... design environments conducive to learning. - We design learning experiences. Don't design CONTENT, design EXPERIENCES ... learn - commitment, resistance, anxiety, motivation) + Most instructional design really addressing Cognitive component ... of the SME and Instructional Designer changes - SME is still expert. But - what can the student DO DIFFERENTLY ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, November 13, 2008 - Comments
  • The problem with the typical real estate agent training program...
    ... is that they focus too much on information ; n ot enough on application and synthesis of skills. Those of you who know me know that my day job is as an instructional designer and course creator for real estate agent ... environment, complete with instructional staff members acting in the role of client. The degree of complexity might also be ... in the law profession, I flinch. I flinch because the fact is, we have different levels of skills. They're different. Business Comp Models Should Be Commensurate With Demonstrated Skills. The demands our industry places ...
    Business Casual - Friday, October 31, 2008 - Comments
  • Seven training resource sites - even if you're not an instructional designer.
    For IDs and non-IDs Alike. (Hint: "ID" = "Instructional Designer".) Below is a list. I asked for ... department head going it alone on a training project (i.e., without budget for an instructional designer), well, god ... Development site offers articles with tips for soft skills development, quizzes, questionnaires and more. Effective Instructional Design: An Online Course Template A good primer if you're a new ID or a manager without an ID to ... preparing a presentation about learning environments. I was surprised not to have been able to find much on the ASTD ...
    Business Casual - Saturday, October 25, 2008 - Comments
  • More Information, New Skills, New Work?
    ... extension, instructional designers aren't a significant part of the solution for equipping today's workforce for ... skills. Not to disappoint, Tony gave the summary a treatment that has a larger question associated with it. It's one of ... the changing nature of knowledge work and the new skills required to work it. A key point: "...foundations of ... Work, New Skills? Given the point above and the title, "New Work and New Work Skills...", I stopped a moment ... really new work. However, the environment is quite different..." I agree with that. For me, it's ...
    Business Casual - Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Training, Creativity, Corporate Transparency, Telecommuting, &Internet
    ... flex the ADDIE model, we need to think about iterative design and development and creating teams of people to complete ... design and development model to generate different kinds of solutions. It's about a different kind of working relationship between and among designers, developers, artists, programmers, media specialists and - yes! - even clients - to pool creative energies and decision making. Also, see Catherine's Learning Environment Design 2 ... Creativity - Scientific American There are four different skill sets, or competencies: The first and most ...
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, October 20, 2008 - Comments
  • E-Networks: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
    ... fast as the business environment within which it operates is destined to regress to the mean of mediocrity. Think of the business environment as a pressure chamber and imagine your organization as a balloon within that chamber. If the ... pressure in the business environment, requiring that enterprises take on the qualities of adaptive organisms rather than ... own organizational and procedural artifacts such as the ADDIE model, and, in predictable fashion, we largely have ... rapidly. In the case of learning, we have been, consciously or not, beholden to the ADDIE model and the classroom ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Friday, October 3, 2008 - Comments