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The Cost of Learning
The cost of learning is minimal, but the cost of NOT learning is HUGE. Business leaders, are you measuring the costs only in money?
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Un-Learning Un-training, Un-workshop
Ask yourself Is there a lack of excitement and energy around learning and training in your organization? Are learning and training viewed as a requirement and not an opportunity? Is there a disconnect between training and the people being trained? … Continue reading
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Discipline-Focused Learning
Ok, isn’t that what all learning is… where we study a discipline? Uhm no. Actually it’s not. The model of education that we have blindly followed for decades is a collection of highly connected disciplines, but yet which rarely interact. … Continue reading
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6 Elements of Effective Online Learning
The world of online learning has taken the world by storm over the last several years. One of the questions we struggle with is, “How do we create effective online learning?” It’s simple: Address the why before the how. In … Continue reading
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How to get more females into the tech industry?
Well, it starts in school. This is something near and dear to my heart. There are several things I experienced as a high school Computer Science teacher that can help us explore this and learn. In education, technology and CS … Continue reading
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The Great Resignation. The Great Layoff. What happened to loyalty?
Immediately following Covid, we saw “The Great Resignation” where the nature of working changed, people were unsatisfied with their current role, the way they were being treated, or how much they were being paid. Because they were remote and alone, … Continue reading
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Is there a best strategy for Instructional Design content creation?
For those in L & D, internal and external training, and instructional design roles, we have the goal of creating engaging and effective learning content in the optimum learning experience. Ideally that happens through tried and proven methodologies , frameworks, and models. … Continue reading
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What we need in business
The business world needs more technical people who can interact with non-technical people. We need more non-technical people who can interact with technical people. We need more non-technical people to develop technical skills. We need more technically-trained people to develop … Continue reading
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The lack of Liberal-Arts minded Engineers
This post is a response to this article/commentary from the CEO of BMW. 100% agree. The elephant in the room is that what we don’t need is nerds who cannot interact with people in non-technical ways. The stereotypical engineer still … Continue reading
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Digital Native Skills
Having spent many years in the Computer Science classroom, I developed a pretty good understanding of how digital natives interact with technology. The biggest thing I noticed is that their tech device is a part of them like a wallet … Continue reading
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