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A Practical Guide To Implementing Professional Development
Yesterday I blogged about the rippling impact of professional development. Today, I share with you a resource I found. This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) strategy, framework and employer’s guide is published by Skills for Care and the Children’s Workforce Development Council, and Skills for Care’s 2009 CPD case studies publication. Though it is destined to…
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Learning Management Skills
One of the areas where I’ve often seen people struggle is when they move from being technical experts to managing a project team. The following article which addresses moving from technical expertize to management expertize is one of a series of phenomenal articles which can be found at http://www.mindtools.com/. Any management promotion can be a…
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E-Learning Study Shows Rippling Impact of Professional Development
ScienceDaily reports on Boston College researchers who engaged in large-scale randomized experiments with the purpose of studying the impact of online professional development for teachers who aimed at improving their instructional practices as well as their subject matter knowledge. In the e-Learning for Educators: Effects of Online Professional Development on Teachers and their Students study,…
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How Some HR & Training Professionals are Informing their Practice with Research
Last night I attended a CSTD event focussing on how Research Meets Practice and how some HR & Training Professionals are informing their practice with research. I personally attended 3 of the 5 sessions (which was the formula for the evening). Dali Hammouch, Senior Advisor-Capability Development, Rio Tinto, discussed on the impact of space on…
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Brushing Up On Your User Experience Design Skills? Take A Look At These Books
Yesterday I wrote about the importance of user experience design testing as part of the overall eLearning course testing process. Paul Seys compiled a fantastic list of books on user experience design (or UX). Borrowing mainly from Web and multimedia design best practices, much of this can inform the design of your online learning environments…
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Taking Into Account User Experience In Your E-learning Design
Two months ago, Tom Kuhlmann wrote a piece on the importance of thoroughly reviewing your e-learning courses before launching them. One of his key tips was to watch learners go through the course in order to understand how they experience it. Web and multimedia designers call this user experience design testing. ZURB, a team of…
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The 21st-Century Workplace is a Cognitive Battleground. What’s Your Training Strategy?
Ever feel completely wiped at the end of of a work day? According to Nemo Chu, a neuroscientist might offer the following explanation: The brain, despite being just ~2% of our body’s mass, actually accounts for ~20% of our body’s total energy consumption. What is 20%? To put that in perspective, that’s like having a…
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Who Else is Working On What I’m Working On?
Yesterday, I blogged about the use of microblogging to improve productivity in an organization. Today, I focus on microblogging to improve connectivity within an organization. In a recent blog post about using a microblogging application such as Yammer for communities of practice and knowledge management practices, Renata Gorman writes: This feeling of connectedness creates more…