“Monsters, Inc.” is a Pixar animated movie that features monsters going to work scaring kids for a living. At least, that’s how director Pete Docter pitched it originally. And, although people who first heard the idea laughed and thought it…
Tag: micro action
Why Avoid Comparing Microlearning with Instructional Design – Tip #165
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, explains why many good ideas never become successful ventures (paraphrased): “When we assess an idea, we need to see if the core concept works and has potential to provide solutions and new opportunities.…
Vortex of the Workplace and Microlearning Fix – Tip #164
In the 1997 disaster adventure film, Twister, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton are storm-chasers researching tornadoes. They figure out a way to get the hurricane’s speed, directions, and behavior by positioning their machine inside the eye of the hurricane. Once…
Ray’s Top Blogs on Microlearning – Tip #163
Here are Ray’s top blog-tips to jumpstart your 2018 Microlearning goals and forward steps. Expertise: Why the Odds are Stacked Against Novices – Tip #93We all have some level of expertise knowledge. However, we have to constantly test it and subject…
How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives – Tip #162
We are inundated by the constant and steady bombardment of information from just about any form of media available – on a daily basis. So how do we help learners focus on usefulness and context of the content and to…
Going Beyond the Microlearning Fad Effect – Tip #161
When asked where Microlearning works and where it doesn’t, we say Microlearning works best in the real world. By tradition, most training and learning takes place in “recreated worlds,” where we attempt to replicate work conditions in artificial or suspended…
Microlearning Leapfrogging – How to Succeed Against All Odds – Tip #160
This year I’ve had projects that I would classify as instances of leapfrogging. Leapfrogging means vaulting from traditional, basic brick-and-mortar (classroom) learning into the rapid and instant Microlearning approach. What the client wanted was to have their group of instructional…
21 Things To Do Before a Webinar – Tip #159
These are some important items on my checklist that I go through to prepare before a webinar. And when I follow these religiously, I succeed! 1 Design a truly interactive and no-lecture webinar. 2 Prepare primary and secondary exercises or…
What Happens If There Is a Chip On Your Windshield? Cases of Microlearning Impacts – Tip #158
Monitoring the impacts and contributions of Microlearning is like figuring out how fast you are falling while you are actually falling from the sky. We can only catch glimpses of moments of impacts rather than substantive end-of-the-year “bean counter” ROI…
Microlearning is The “It’s-Always-There” Solution – Tip #157
What happens to the behaviors of learners and workers after they have been accustomed to Microlearning? For over 10 years I have seen early adoptions and maturing implementation of Microlearning. They all come in different forms and shapes, which is…
Five Sure Ways to Prepare for High-Impact Webinars – Tip #156
How do you grab your audience’s attention? How do you make your webinars relevant, meaningful and useful? When you read newspapers, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other media, one gets overcome by an overwhelming amount of information. How do we sift…
My Transition to Quality Webinar Delivery – Tip #155
In my early years as a learning professional decades ago, face to face events were my go-to learning delivery approach. Then my own journey led me to the discovery of webinars. That’s not to say that I do not value classroom…
The Conversation Catalyst – Create High-Speed Webinar Discussions – Tip #154
Motivate learners to help you create your content Key Ideas to help you: 1 Show a slide and graphic that represents the question and contentbr> Show them an image with books packed into a shelf. Then ask the question “How…
Ten (10) Best Story-Based eLearning Tips – Tip #153
In this tip, I’d like to share what I consider the Best of Tips on Story-Based Learning Design. We have gathered the very best tips from the numerous tips we have shared in the past for your reference and further…
Using Data to Tell a Story and Deliver a Lesson – Tip #152
Data means nothing if trainers do not use it or even look at it. Data visualization expert Stephen Few said, “Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice.” Any insight…