This will be in restaurants soon. Surely, there is a training use – maybe a game, a workflow activity. Ray Jimenez, PhDhttp://www.vignettestraining.com/http://www.trainingpayback.com/ “Helping Learners Learn Their Way” “Helping Learners Apply Learning”
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Business Ideas through Social Learning
The site Gogme.biz is an application of adding more “function” in a social networking context. I see that social learning can benefit from this idea by testing how learning can follow this path: Phase I- social learningPhase 2-collaborative learningPhase 3-performance…
Quiz Maker in a Wiki? “Wow, what a paradox – sleepless night!”
Adding a Quiz Maker in a Wiki really causes me anguish. It brings me back to what I call the diseases of trainers, instructional designers, even parents, or anyone for that matter. CONTROL-ITIS – controlling what learners should learnCONTENT-ITIS –…
“Concrete and Vivid Stories Exert Extraordinary Influence”
Roger Heap from Psychological Associates (http://www.spq4.com/) was very nice to share these thoughts on story telling: I have been reading Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, and Switzler. I thought you would enjoy this confirmation…
There Goes the Eye Medicine – Cisco’s Big Move to Social Networking
Application Points: Cisco could be blinding many of us. Commercially viable. Massive solution focuses on technical prowess. Cases still persist on really bad LMSs and Synchronous presentations (virtual meetings). —————————————————————- Many of us are struggling about how to discover the…
Unable to Produce profits. Does It Matter to Us in the Learning and Training World?
—————————————————– Application Points: Not too quick to love the technology of Web 2.0? Let’s ask why they are not making profits. Are we buying into a bubble? So what? Look into providers for training and learning niche of Web 2.0.…
Do You Tell Stories, Rumors or Controversies?
Jakob Nielsen: E-Learning: An Oxymoron? Story Telling, Narrative and Web Reading, and Social Learning Jakob Nielsen Alert Box, June 9, 2008, compares Writing Style for Print vs. Web. ————————————————————- Application Points: Participants in social learning are ALL engaged but differ…
e-Learning 2.0: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfile
Social Networking: Surveying Learner Participant TechnoProfile I have been fine-tuning a survey tool to gauge the TechnoProfile of the target learning audience in social learning, networking, collaboration and Learning 2.0 environments. I call it “Learner TechnoProfile.” The survey design is…
“Beyond Blogs – It Will Be Here After the Bubble Bursts”
Stephen Baker of Business Week says in a video, “We will be using blogs and other tools, even after the blog bubble bursts, if there is one.” I remember the upside of the last .COM bust. A lot of the…
Visualization – IBM’s Many Eyes Rocks – A Tool for Social Network Leaders
There is a lot of progress in web 2.0 tools and widgets in the area of visualization of data, interaction or process. Searchme.com and C Dragon are good examples. The idea is that the more people can visualize data, the…
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Or “Are We Dumbing Our Online Learners?”
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Or my related question is, “are we dumbing our online learners?” Nick Carr This is a MUST reading if you are into e-Learning, web-based training or any technology- assisted work. I had to PRINT the…
Culture of Training Impact Evaluation
Let’s make it a culture “that a training impact evaluation” be done for every training effort. According to Elliott Masie: “The hardcore answer is that every time we start a project for a business unit, we demand that an impact…
Information Overload, Interruptions in Flow – Reduce Productivity
In “3-Minute e-Learning” I focused on the need to present to learners content that is critical to their performance. This is necessary because of the frequent interruptions and preferences of learners to randomly move around whenever they are in online…
Raymond Always Teaches Me Something New — Nuclear Fusion Project
Raymond, 17, my son, always teaches me something new. He just self-published with Lulu.com his book on Amateur Nuclear Fusion. You can download a free PDF copy – allow more download time, it’s 80 Meg. Raymond teaches me: > Tenacity…
Upcoming Online Workshops on Social Learning and e-Learning
I am delivering three Certificate online workshops with Training Magazine Events. Check it out: e-Learning Design http://www.trainingliveandonline.com/certjimenezelearn.html Advance e-Learning Design http://www.trainingliveandonline.com/certjimenezadvelearn.html Social Networking, Learning and Performance http://www.trainingliveandonline.com/certjimenez.html Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com “Helping Learners Learn Their Way”