My husband is a family doc who works for a large medical group owned by a hospital system. The system is rolling out a new Electronic Medical Records system and my beloved, who as medical director is the divisional advocate for physicians, will be among the first in his division to get it. I’ve been
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
At the HRD 2012 conference, attendees heard that the role of the learning professional is more and more shifting to that of “curator” of content already available to the public, rather than producer of proprietary content for the organization. Color me skeptical. Certainly, especially in consumer product fields, there is a great deal to be
Adobe commissioned a global study on creativity and released it this week. It’s an interesting and light read, since it’s mostly charts and graphs. It’s nice to see that around the world, (or at least in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Japan) we agree that people are inherently creative, irrespective of age and opportunity
We at Q2 have been doing a lot of thinking about mobile learning these days. I’ve been reading all over the place trying to come up to speed. This post is likely the first in a series of reflections on the challenge. What is it? What I think mobile learning means to LEARNERS is
In Connecting the dots between informal learning and video, Kim Benton attempts to make the case for why more learning resources need to be in the form of video. Excuse me while I run from the room screaming. But first, let me offer my screaming credentials. I’m sold on the value of video, used judiciously.
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
Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced MITx, saying “MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will: organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication allow for the individual assessment of any student’s
You’d have to be living under a rock to be unaware that the use of social media is considered to be THE hot skill effective knowledge workers must master. What you might not realize is that you are probably already a pretty effective user of social media, even if you do not yet have a
Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has put together a list of 100 Top Learning Tools for 2011. She surveyed 531 self-identified learning professionals, and these are the tools these folks mentioned. Now, Jane takes a very learner-centered approach. She’s all about enabling informal, just in time learning for individuals to