Catch up with Megan at Learning Solutions
Are you planning to be at the Learning Solutions Conference March 22-24 in Orlando? Catch up with Megan! Here’s a look at her schedule. Hope to see you there! Morning Buzz Concurrent Session Concurrent Session w/ Rob Houck [...]
Catch up with Megan at TechKnowledge
Are you planning to be at the ATD’s TechKnowledge conference January 11-13 in Las Vegas? Catch up with Megan! Here’s a look at her schedule. Hope to see you there! TK Disrupt Room Concurrent Session Concurrent Session w/ [...]
Guest post: Informal Learning and the Pivot Point
Guest Post by Stephen Gill This blog originally posted on The Performance Improvement Blog. As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point, unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.) is followed by informal learning interventions, at [...]
The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart
Megan Torrance, CEO TorranceLearning This article was also posted in Education & Career News According to the Association for Talent Development’s 2015 State of the Industry Report 39% of all corporate training is delivered online, via mobile phone or remotely. The rise of online learning (also known as [...]
Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture
Guest Post by Stephen Gill This blog originally posted on Learning To Be Great. What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “learning culture”? The answer is, “A great deal.” As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides [...]
Life and Learning in a Post-SCORM World
As learning professionals, we've lived in a SCORM world for a least the past decade; SCORM being the set of standards for sharing and tracking learning content. But the world has started to evolve, and these days, it's abuzz with talk of xAPI. (Not as familiar with xAPI? Click here.) [...]
xAPI Community
I just returned from ATD’s TechKnowledge 2016, where I learned all sorts of groovy stuff: cool tricks for Adobe Connect, the value of microvideo, best practices for MOOCs. However, as is often the case, the most potent lesson didn’t come from any of the fabulous presenters’ direct instruction. Instead, [...]
The Waste of Motion
Before there was LLAMA (lot like Agile management approach), there was Agile. And before there was Agile, there was Lean. Each approach owes some of its principles to the one before. (Hmm. Sounds awfully iterative, doesn’t it?) You’ve probably heard of Lean because it’s a term that gets used a [...]
xAPI: The Stroke Ready App
We recently hosted a group of about 30 clients, friends, and colleagues at an xAPI party (because nothing says “celebration” like verb definitions and data filtering). As the day drew to a close, many of us came to the same conclusion: we need more examples of xAPI in the real [...]