Cammy Bean is discussing the “Shades of Instructional Design” and Jonathan Atleson is blogging on the same topic about “The various Roles of Instructional Design” – make sure you don’t miss the comments 
Jay Cross is blogging about the session he led entitled “Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning”. In his posting he suggests that in order to implement informal learning infrastructure projects, learning professionals should shift their focus from learning to earning.
Also, check out Karyn Romeis’ answer to “How do we control what people are learning”.
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As the economy has forced organizations to do more with less, we’re seeing more and more interest in LCMS systems. The times of getting through the inherent inefficiencies of the old approach of having multiple copies of instructor guides, student guides, slide decks and online courses are gone. Organizations are looking for ways to streamline their processes and remove waste.
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Tony Karrer is blogging about the term “meta-learning” and its definition as it was used in the article “Become a chief meta-learning officer” by Jay Cross and Clark Quinn. Great insights are shared by author and commenters.
Harold Jarche is exploring the challenges of training in complex environments. “In complex environments, only emergent practices are effective, as backward-looking “good practices” are inadequate”. Harold suggests that an effective strategy to deal with complexity would be first going in “Beta” (meaning testing training through some action) and then tapping the feedback gained and revising either with radical or small changes.
A nice description of the process undertaken when using the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) strategy to learning program development, by Michael Hanley.
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Despoina Industry Talk emergent practice, instructional design, meta-learning
A recently published report concluded that Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS) implementations using reusable learning object (RLO) models typically result in a small return on investment. I am not surprised. For starters, I happen to know that none of our customers participated in the study
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Mark Executive Perspective, Instructional design for single source LCMS, learning content management system, reusable content, reusable learning objects, RLO, single source publishing, xml publishing
I’ve been in the training and development business for nearly 20 years now. Things certainly have changed a lot in that time.
My first job out of graduate school was as an Interactive Designer for a small but growing multimedia development firm. I was hired to be part of a multi-million dollar project for a major automotive manufacturer. We were creating CD-ROM based training for service technicians. Each course cost over $1 million dollars! They were fantastic, cutting-edge, pushing the envelope in every way.
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Stuart Instructional design for single source blended learning, elearning, instructor-led training, single-source content development
Jay Cross has started a conversation on the Future of Organizational Learning and Development. Great ideas have been shared so far. We are looking forward to the discussion on April 21st!
Michael Hanley analyzing 5 factors that are contributing to the emergence of informal and non-formal learning. Blended learning, Talent management and Learning 2.0 are discussed in the first part whereas Knowledge centers and Learning simulations in the second part of his blog posting.
Brandon-Hall just published a new 526-page report entitled “Learning Technology Products 2009: Authoring Tools, Learning Management Systems, and Learning Content Management Systems” that contains short one - to three - page profiles of the products featured in three Brandon Hall Research KnowledgeBases: Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase, LMS KnowledgeBase and LCMS KnowledgeBase.
Thinking outside the blocks (yes “blocks,” not box): New ways of learning with shiftables. Now, this is a post Bryan Chapman uploaded in February, but I had to include it. Wow, it is amazing!
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Despoina Industry Talk blended learning, enterprise learning, informal learning, LCMS, organizational development, organizational learning, workplace learning
I remember the first time I went out on a sales call. I was a young engineer and I really didn’t know much about sales. After the call, the VP of Sales I was with gave me a book called “Prospecting Your Way to Sales Success”. It was a great story about the discipline sales professionals need to be successful. Contrary to what many people believe, the best sales professionals are not “the slick salesman” or the “tell them what they want to hear to get the deal” type. The best sales people have a methodology and rigorously follow it. The most successful sales people will tell you that sales is a hard profession, and the key is making the hard things easier to do.
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If the number of people in my resent conference sessions are any indication more and more organizations are seeing the promise of single-source learning content development. Everyone knows that the old way of doing things is just not working any more once you have any number of courses… doing your Instructor Guide and Student Guide in Word or FrameMaker, your Slides in PowerPoint or Keynote and your learning in Articulate or Lectora.
What happens every time something has to change? EEEKKKKK!
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Stuart Instructional design for single source instructional design, learning content development, Reusability 2.0, reusable content, single source publishing
I want to comment and discuss a real-world example of why XML and XML standards are fundamental to your strategy when selecting an LCMS. One of the great questions we hear when prospective clients evaluate LCMS solutions is “what is the role of XML in my decision”? Does it matter if I choose an LCMS built on a pure XML platform or one that is built on proprietary content formats?
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February’s collection, enjoy!:
Jay Cross is rethinking the agile instructional design approaches and expands on some fresh ideas in his very interesting blog posting ”Agile instructional design”.
“E-learning: the fad that’s lasted 30 years”: Clive Shepherd is blogging about why e-learning is not a fad.
“Anatomy of a classroom: think out of the box” (My personal favorite for the month): Donald Clark is questioning the boxed-in traditional classrooms and taking his arguments back to human nature and how learning should be unboxed. A must read!
In his blog posting Konrad Glogowski analyzes key findings of the Living and Learning with New Media (Ito, Horst, Bittani, et al., 2008) report published at the end of 2008.
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Despoina Industry Talk classroom learning, elearning, instructional design, knowledge management
