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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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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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 recent 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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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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eLearning Weekly: Blogging on the article “E-Learning NO How: 7 disastrous decisions sure to sink any e-learning implementation”. Some tips to avoid failure.

Will at Work Learning: Lists of Myths That the Business Side Has About Learning (according to learning professionals).

Josh Bersin: Informal Learning becomes Formal – That is to say Informal Learning is made real and valuable.

Dale Waldt: Will XML Help this President? XML and related technology is a powerful tool for government. “I think there is a very big role for XML and related technology in the aggressive, sweeping change promised by this administration”.

Interviews: Some Instructional design insight shared by Instructional designers. What skills they feel are important for instructional designers, and what they feel the future of the field will be. Students interested in instructional design, you might want to listen to this!

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