(To protect the interest of our clients, we are using fictitious names. However, the data presented here are close to real and living cases.) Last week, I had a conversation with a VP for Sales Training. He asked what is…
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My Encounter with the Galactic Minds: Feynman TEDX Caltech and Stephen Hawkings
This week is very exciting for me. I will be attending Caltech’s TEDx event on January 14, 2011 “Feynman’s Vision: The Next 50 Years”. I am also attending a Caltech lecture by Stephen Hawking. TEDx CALTECH This will be a…
DIYEL #7 Use a straight-line micro-incision on content to instantly apply ideas. All else wastes precious time.
IntroductionTable of PostsPicture this: a surgeon uses a scalpel to create a straight-line incision to begin an operation: sharp, quick and instant. This is how our training and learning designs should be. Instead, most of them are dull, prolonged and…
No Ugly Content Please: iPhone’s Modality Learning Is Great, but It Will Not Work with “Ugly Looking” e-Learning Content
I stumbled upon eQuixotic Blog and was impressed with Chris’ quality and mission. Chris talks about Apple’s July 11, 2008 release of Modality Learning. View Steve Jobs’ Keynote Address at WWDC 2008. Comments: 1) In the training industry, many times,…
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…
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…
Why Do Top Executives Make e-Learning Systems a Business Strategy?
Sometimes e-Learning leaders and professionals act out the “pigeon dance.” Pigeons keep on doing what they do because it worked in the past. They are slow to adapt to new ways or finding them. E-Learning leaders and professionals can break…
Ray’s Upcoming Online Learning Events – edited
I am very excited to share with you three online learning workshops. These are sponsored by Training Magazine Events. Basic Social Network Learning Certificate E-Learning Design Certificate Advanced E-Learning Design Certificate Ray Jimenez, PhD www.vignettestraining.com “Helping Learners Learn Their Way”
Boiling It Down to Valuable and Useful Knowledge
Many pundits of Web 2.0, Social Networking, e-Learning, training and education are raising the issue about people’s inability to process information overload. Some solutions may come from having better software and processes. I am skeptical about our over reliance on…
Micro-Learning Impacts: Training Magazine Event Study
We just released a study and report on “Micro-Learning Impacts.” This study (on-going) was conducted in cooperation with Training Magazine Events showing how learners learn, apply, network, and measure results. The participants submitted micro-goals, networked with their leaders and peers,…
