Paul Clothier recently wrote a thought-provoking article for Learning Solutions magazine called Interactive Video: The Next Big Thing in Mobile. The article is worth checking out, if only for the tasty examples he provides – they definitely ping my “Oooh, Shiny!” meter. The idea is video with embedded links to other video, providing a less
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
Chief Learning Officer’s Ladan Nikravan opened a conversation on their Linkedin forum recently, asking “What is the classroom’s place in learning in 2013?” It’s a fair question, but I have to say I was surprised by some of the answers offered. Some of the respondents seem to assume that the sole alternative to the face-to-face
The news that there will be no more telecommuting at Yahoo again raises the question of what it takes to build a highly effective workforce. I’m sorry they took a blanket approach at Yahoo. It seems clear that something is lost when people don’t run into one another in the halls, and in the cafeteria,
The Kellogg School of Management devoted its Fall 2012 alumni magazine issue to “The Collaboration Economy” and the school’s commitment to thought leadership within it. Kellogg has LONG been identified with a collaborative approach to the teaching and learning of management skills, so this is an obvious fit. As a loyal alumna who has been
The blogs are all atwitter (can we say that these days?) with discussion about coaching. Who should receive coaching? Executives, or everybody? Under what circumstances? There are calls for a “coaching culture” in which everybody coaches everybody else, all the time. I admit, I’m attracted to that model. Except that if one is not already
Atul Gawande did an excellent reflection on the value of coaching last year for The New Yorker. While we normally think about coaching as something we do for people who are new to the tasks at hand, Gawande’s focus was on what happens when experienced professionals take on a coach. He offered this fascinating case
One of the things we try to do with our training initiatives is keep the activities as near to the tasks required for learners’ jobs as possible. Of course we also want to be training space to be a place where it’s safe to make errors . And frequently we want to make the thinking
The educational world is abuzz with the concept of flipping. I initially saw it in response to the K-12 modules made available at Kahn Academy. Teachers have been sufficiently impressed with the quality of the content presentation available at Kahn, that they have started “outsourcing” lecture to Kahn, and now spend class time helping their
If you’ve not been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard mention of the 70:20:10 model – the one which suggests 70% of workplace learning takes place from doing the job itself, another 20% from talking to people, and a mere 10% from course work and reading materials. Charles Jennings, in his recent article traces