A Harvard Business Review article “What’s Lost When Experts Retire” reminded me about the dire need to rethink our roles as learning professionals and leaders: My sense is that our current of definitions and understanding of expertise may be at odds…
Category: Uncategorized
The SMEs’ Fault – They Think That All Content Is Important – Tip #92
When I asked leaders and instructional designers why their courses and eLearning are long, extensive and take hours to complete, they decry, “the SMEs say all content are important.” There are a number of reasons why we, as designers and…
3 Story Sources for Deeper Learning – Tip #91
Have you noticed in your learning sessions that learners tend to tell their own stories and sometimes it is hard to stop them? Some trainers think of this as wasting time and yet learners telling their stories is one of…
Be A Scientist – Set Up Your Own Learning Behavior Lab on Micro- Experiences and Stories – Tip #90
Do you like to ride a roller coaster or go skydiving? Have you tried scuba diving or deep cave hiking? For many of us, these might be extreme experiences. We could not even begin to fathom the feeling or the…
What Happens When New Becomes Old? – Tip #89
Have you ever experienced having mastered a web-based learning tool and then be informed that the tool was discontinued? Ning.com was new years back. Then Twitter.com and Prezi came. Then Pinterest.com followed. Now, there is Snapchat.com. Soon more will come…
In Annenberg watching launch of SpaceX Falcon 9
Is your content out of context or in context? – Tip #86
We can learn from politicians. When they say “my comment was taken out of context”, what they mean is that the press reporter used their statements giving it a different meaning, which is not the original intent of the politician.…
Factual and emotional content
Watch “Japanese great guitarist~shamisen” on YouTube
Estimation
Is it Curation or Co-Creation of Content? – Tip #85
The focus of most curation methods when applied to learning is in organizing, filtering, distilling, adding value, etc. to content. This is like serving food (content) in an improved way. There may be a risk in this trend. As…
Remove the Sting of Compliance Courses: Make Them Short, Succinct, Easy to Learn – Tip #84
More often than not, compliance courses have received a bad rap and reputation. The main complaint is that compliance courses are just “clicking boxes to meet lawyers’ needs.” As the perception persists, part of the blame is caused by designers,…
How to Implement a Corporate Wide Story-Based Learning – Tip #83
In the workshops that I conducted on Story-based eLearning Design, participants constantly ask: How do we implement Story-Based Learning in our entire company or in various forms of our learning? There is no one sure-fire answer to accomplish this.…
Role of Stories in Learning – A Map – Tip #82
Thanks to Clark Quinn for allowing me to use this chart. It summarizes what Roger Schank presented at the LearnTechAsia, where according to him, “Roger gave his passioned, opinionated, irreverent, and spot-on talk to kick off LearnTechAsia. He covered the…
Adding Magical Powers to Otherwise Boring Videos and Webinar Recordings – Tip #81
Studies have shown that more and more companies are using videos and webinar recordings to support learning. The challenge however, is that most videos can be boring, tedious and limits the learner from following their own interests. Most videos and…