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The StyleLearn Origins Podcast Reveals it All
There were exceptional challenges in the past that pushed the might of the American workforce to its optimal capacity. The catalyst for all this was training and the new StyleLearn Origins podcast brings you these powerful lessons.
Training Within Industry: A Historical Blind Spot in Learning and Development
The Training Within Industry service helped the U.S. win World War II and set the foundational principles for training and development and performance improvement best practices.
Learning and Development Memes II
Keeping up with the series of Learning and Development Memes, here’s the second collection of awesome memes. I hope you get a laugh after a hard week of work.
Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Baking Soda of Learning Design
Baking soda has a rich history as a multipurpose kitchen cleaner, leavening agent and even wound healing properties. Thus far, no one has claimed it to accelerate learning or help you create good learning objectives. Unfortunately, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been treated by many in L&D as the baking soda of learning design. Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals was published in 1956 with the sole purpose of standardize the way academic professors ensured learning objectives are aligned with examination item
The Value of Learning Experience Design for Corporate Learning
As recent as three years ago there has been great impetus in the discussion of Learning Experience Design (LXD). Many recognized personalities in the L&D industry have written about it and as it can always be expected, capitalized on its commercialization. In this triumphant return of the StyleLearn blog we take a look at LXD from the business learning perspective and its value for improving workplace performance.
Five New Year’s Resolutions for L&D
L&D New Year’s resolutions to become a better business partner and performance-driven learning professional.
Tips on Academic to Corporate Instructional Design Crossover
Lately, I’ve been getting several requests from academic professionals for tips on how to cross over to the Learning and Development (L&D) arena. My first reaction to these requests was “Really? Why would you want to do that?”, I find it interesting because I’ve always been attracted to academic environments. After thinking a bit through […]
Barriers to Games and Gamification for Learning
Games and gamification have been around for hundreds of years. Last week I had the pleasure of participating as a panelist to discuss common barriers to games and gamification in organizational learning at DevLearn 2017 in Las Vegas. I shared the floor with Marci Morford and Nick Floro who are well known practitioners of gamified learning […]
Instructional Design is not Information Technology or is it?
Instructional Designers or IDs are in need of several skills which are often not developed in academic programs and are only gained by work experience. Even then, IDs have a propensity to be “techie” in their talk about project requirements and may often mimic the behaviors of an Information Technology or IT professional. You know, […]
Design Learning Experiences with Synapse
Synapse is a learning experience design tool for documenting the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation or ADDIE process of instructional design. As an instructional designer, I always struggled with limited resources to document all stages of a learning project. Often this meant having to manually deal with content versions, shared drives, spreadsheets, and other resources. In […]
10 L&D Worst Practices Everyone Must Know
Best practices have a common popularity among business people. This is a great way to incite quality work but, it’s also easy to see how Learning and Development (L&D) may have trouble identifying what those best practices consist of. Therefore, in good StyleLearn fashion, here are some great worst practices with the hope of enabling […]
3 Solid Strategies For Smarter ILT Experiences
Instructor Led Training (ILT) is still vibrant and dominating the Learning and Development (L&D) landscape. However, there are many reasons ILT is the worst, most inefficient and effective way to transfer knowledge and skills. The only edge ILT has on any other learning medium is the human aspect and the ability to ask questions ad […]
Active Shooter eLearning Experience
Mass shootings are a sad reality of our times and can happen to anyone, anywhere. Recently, active shooter courses have become a staple of compliance training for many companies. Last year, I designed an active shooter elearning course which was my submission for LSDemoFest at LSCON16. Even though it was not a winner, the feedback given […]
We shouldn’t stop using the term “learner” unless…
Last week I read a post from JD Dillon on “Why we should stop using the term “learner” when we refer to those folks we serve through our Learning & Development (L&D) initiatives. JD’s position on the topic clearly reflects why learning in the workplace is the best industry to be in from a vendor perspective. […]