Posts Tagged ‘ training ’
Fundamentally the view here is that learning professionals should no longer look at learning as a medication to treat a symptom but as holistic treatment to enable and support the cultivation of a healthy lifestyle[ READ MORE ]
I love the challenge of finding effective ways to develop new capabilities. To do old things differently or totally new things. After spending the better part of the past 10 years working with professionals and experts in various fields from media to finance, medical sciences to arts, I find one question remains common to all- [ READ MORE ]
We need to start designing for higher outcomes. Current focus on objective outcomes focused on the accummulation of information are old school and a waste of time. Our designs should focus more on supporting the strategic selection and effective application of information as required by the interpretation of emerging situations. We need to spend a lot more time asking how people access, select and use information in the various domains of activity...probably even more than what information they are accessing... [ READ MORE ]
I think on the job training as a term should be retired as it suggests training interventions embedded within the work cycle. Don’t get me wrong, like teaching, there is much value to be had from embedding training in the work flow, however, training is formal and for all intents and purposes, artificial. Learning is [ READ MORE ]
Wisdom is the situational selection and application of skills which itself relies on a body of knowledge which is supported by a wealth of information that draws on a pool of available data. Wisdom is what we ultimately seek to attain, borrowing from DIKW and paralleling that with bloom’s taxonomy, the transition from data to [ READ MORE ]
My approach to learning design You need the knowledge in digestable chunks and appropriate format You need a concrete experience that simulates situations that could call for the use of the knowledge but starting from the framing or assessing the situation and not directly going to a defined knowledge application situation A sequence of learning [ READ MORE ]
There are so many theories on what learning is, how to go about it, best practice this or that. In actual fact the best learning that human beings experience is outside any formal learning environment, it’s everyday learning. The one thing that separates everyday learning from formal learning events is not methodology or design, but [ READ MORE ]
The bigger an organisation gets, the less significant individuals become. Activities replace achievements, doing replaces performance and all in all results are achieved through sheer volume of activities rather than concerted efforts to achieve goals. The motivation to achieve often comes from a clearly defined and shared corporate goal with a strategy that is both believable [ READ MORE ]
In this article, I adopt the following components of learning or types of learning outcomes: Verbal Information Factual Information Conceptual Information Process information Information on principles Intellectual Skills Cognitive Strategies Attitudes Motor Skills Information: Anything we take in from our senses and can remember or reproduce in more or less the same way. Information here [ READ MORE ]
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