What Can We Learn from 50 Years of Project Management?
What can history teach us about being better project managers in today’s workplace? An article published in the International Journal of Project Management earlier this year took on the task of combing...
View ArticleMOOCs: Effective Instruction or Pedagogical Disaster?
The last few years have seen a tremendous surge of interest in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Just last month, Harvard and MIT jointly published a large research study examining the trends...
View ArticleExperiential Learning Theory: Learning by Doing
Let’s say you want to teach someone to drive a car. You, as the instructional designer of Driver’s Ed, might choose to assign a hefty textbook—perhaps the manual to the car—as well as a pamphlet about...
View ArticleEffective Employee Onboarding: What You Should Know
When we talk about organizational transitions, we are often talking about the large scale—structural reorganization, mergers, new leadership, or going public. But smaller, ongoing transitions have a...
View ArticleIs Your Training Effective?
There are many questions you may ask as you design training for your employees: Is it engaging? Does it cover all the learning objectives? Is it accessible? But the most important question is one that...
View ArticleOnce Upon a Time, Stories Transformed eLearning
Story-based learning (SBL) uses narrative as the main way to present course material. And there are multiple formats this strategy can take on: video or audio production, written text, dramatic...
View ArticleOnline or Blended: Which is Better?
If you Google “online or blended?” you’ll find a number of opinions, the surprising majority of which offer a concrete answer: blended. But is that true? Is one delivery method really superior to...
View ArticleRubrics: The Scaffolding of Quality eLearning
Rubrics are a necessary part of any effective training, but many instructors and designers struggle with creating them. Rubrics serve as a guide for determining whether or not the learning process was...
View ArticleWhen the Going Gets Rough: Surviving the Top 3 Hassles of Being an...
It may be fun at times, but no one said this line of work would be easy. Developing courses for outside audiences can be difficult, especially for designers who are neither content experts nor teaching...
View ArticleIt’s Not What You Do, It’s Who You Are: The Experience of Embodied Leadership
Leadership expert and author Pete Hamill likes to compare leaders to top athletes. Both undergo rigorous training in order to become the best in their fields. Both want to push the boundaries of their...
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