Tag Archives: training

 

Learning In Context – The Evolving Way We Learn

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This past week, I ran into one of my friends who is  a grade school teacher at a social event.  I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the adoption and use of the iPad, so I couldn’t help but ask … Continue reading →

 
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 1 Comment
 

Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 3

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“Is Instructional Design Dead?” There was a great discussion around this question in one of the sessions. I am glad that the conclusion was, “No, it’s very much alive but it needs to change.” Almost everybody agreed that instructional design … Continue reading →

 
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Comment
 

Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 2

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Learning Affordances When technology provides additional capabilities for employees to do their work more efficiently, it allows us to think about the emerging technologies from the affordance perspective—rather than just the features or hype. For example, when designing for mobile … Continue reading →

 
Monday, November 21st, 2011 Comment
 

Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 1

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Last week I attended Elliot Masie’s Learning 2011 Conference with two colleagues. There were over 2,000 training professionals gathered at the magical Disney resort in Orlando. The energy around us was palpable—it seemed like everybody was full of anticipation to … Continue reading →

 
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 1 Comment
 

When Apples Go Bad – UI Design and Usability

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Apple released the latest upgrade of their operating system (iOS5) a couple of weeks ago. This release gave us happy new features—notifications banner! to-do list! iMessage! multiple routes on maps!—as well as the Why-would-you-do-that-to-us features—if I can’t put Newsstand in … Continue reading →

 
Friday, November 4th, 2011 1 Comment
 

Getting Out of the Dump

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A common practice in the world of training is what we affectionately call the “information dump.” You might know what I’m talking about—the courses that are so text heavy and dense that you lose the learner on page two. These … Continue reading →

 
Friday, October 14th, 2011 3 Comments
 

How Did That Course Really Go?

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Here at Allen, we have a weekly designer meeting, which is a great opportunity for our design leads to meet and talk about what is going on with our projects. This week we had a designer showcase, and there were … Continue reading →

 
Monday, September 26th, 2011 2 Comments
 

Seeing the Training for the Trees

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The popular philosophical question goes, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” The 18th century Irish philosopher George Berkeley is known for his belief summed up in … Continue reading →

 
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 6 Comments
 

Finding a Universal Symbol for Yes

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Suppose you were me eight months ago. You were in charge of designing a web-based course on business ethics for a large financial company. This course was scheduled to be translated into ten languages. One of the activities in this … Continue reading →

 
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 5 Comments
 

Ridding the World of Bad Scenarios

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Using scenarios to help learners apply new knowledge has been a long-standing training best practice. And in more recent years, to the relief of online learners, scenarios have started to take the place of some of those dreaded knowledge checks … Continue reading →

 
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 2 Comments