I just had such a great Out-Of-Box-Experience. My experience was with a new desk chair, manufactured by SPACE . I ordered it online, so of course, it came needing to be assembled. When I opened the box, I got the usual assortment of parts and fasteners, with one brilliant difference. Instead of the bag o’
Like many of you, I receive a lot of invitations to industry conferences. These days, it’s fashionable to include a video of people talking about the conference and how cool it is. I don’t usually click, preferring to get this sort of information via text, but today, for some reason, I watched the video. I
Gotta love Breaking Science News! I normally prettify link text, but in this case, the URL says it all: http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/lectures-arent-just-boring-theyre-ineffective-too-study-finds Raise your hand if you find this shocking. (Didn’t think I’d see any hands…) Per the article: “Freeman and a group of colleagues analyzed 225 studies of undergraduate STEM teaching methods. The meta-analysis, published online
My friends the game designers are at it again, posting stuff about their work which makes me think HARD about my work in the training field. Mike Sellers at Rumble Entertainment recently pointed me to Warren Spector’s fascinating post on the commandments of game design. Written for an audience of developers of high-end games, the
There’s a buzz around micro-learning in training circles. A brief survey of the training-oriented discussion groups on Linked-in suggests that as with many au-courant terms, this one isn’t very well defined. The basic idea is to break training up into very small, highly digestible “chunks” – but what this looks like in practice varies from
Gary Duffield did a wonderful post earlier this month on Why a great coffee machine is like a great (instructor led) course. While his organization offers a range of training methodologies, he writes: I fly the flag for training delivered in the classroom, by a subject matter expert. Possibly because Instructor Led Training supported by
The Learning Circuits folks have a new space which they are calling the “Learning Circuits Blog Discussion Wiki.” They introduce it by observing “Here the community can take on topics of interest to the elearning and learning fields. The wiki can afford a longer, more involved dialogue than the somewhat here today, gone tomorrow approach
Josh Catone does a very nice round-up of freely-available collaboration software this week in Rolling Your Own Online Office. Though our xPERT eCampus is a pretty comprehensive online collaboration tool, we at Q2 do use a few of the tools he mentions – email, obviously, but also Google Docs and instant messaging, and some other