Evolution and Revolution in Learning and Development
I’m a big fan of social media (SoMe) learning. In a traditional class you work with students for a limited amount of time and then they return to the workplace, usually with little follow-up or ongoing...
View ArticleBack in Style
Mom used to keep old dresses along with Dad’s old sport coats, never wearing them but refusing to toss them out. “I’m keeping them for when they come back into style,” she’d say. Sure enough, the...
View ArticleTechnology in Training Delivery – Reflections on #ASTD2013
I wrote earlier how the word “training” was making a comeback after a brief period of exile (“Back in Style“). During the conference, I participated in several great concurrent sessions on enhancing...
View ArticleTalkin’‘Bout My Generation
During the keynote address at the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference and Exposition a few weeks ago, president Tony Bingham talked about the Millennial...
View ArticleLearning and the Changing Workplace – Part 3
In part 1 of this series, I wrote how the field of Learning and Development* (L&D) hasn’t really changed much over the last decade, despite substantial changes in the workplace. Part 2 addressed...
View ArticleThe Mobile Handset, an Inflection Point?
Today I feel like rambling a bit. This time my thoughts are about wearable technology and the mobile handset (smartphone). Wearable technologies are coming, with many early arrivals on the market...
View ArticleThe New Nerd
100-year-old wearable technology, circa 1915 In a recent post I wrote about the wrist watch as a century-old example of wearable technology. Knowing the time of day was important for people to make...
View ArticleI Believe in the Inverse Relationship Between Experience and the Value of...
If Learning and Development organizations (or anyone, for that matter) are going to facilitate learning in the changing workplace, it’s vitally important to understand how employees actually learn. To...
View ArticleMicrolearning: Fab or Fad?
There’s a new buzzword in town, and it’s name is microlearning. Like its predecessors social learning, mobile learning, and blended learning, it’s being tossed around as the new big thing, something we...
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