Last week I spent a few days in Orlando at Masie’s 2011 Learning Conference. There was a great line-up of speakers this year—Bill Clinton, John Lithgow, Dean Kamen, Betsy Myers, …
How Did the Elearning Course Development Really Go?
Here at Allen, we have a weekly designer meeting, which is a great opportunity for our design leads to meet and talk about what is going on with our projects. …
Introducing DesignJot, The First iPad App for Training Professionals
If you’ve seen me speak or read my blogs recently, you know I’ve whole-heartedly joined the tablet revolution and I consider myself somewhat of an iPad power-user. I’ve spent a …
Working in Utah, It’s Not What You Think
Utah is becoming increasingly recognized as a “mecca for learning and creative talent” in the U.S. Allison is one of many clients who have complete confidence in our ability to deliver creative, elegant, well-executed solutions using best-in-class project-management tools and processes.
A Tale of Two Flights
“To create value, training needs to be more than a presentation of information; instead, it should help learners perform the real-world behaviors that will allow your organization to meet its business needs.”
Systematic Creativity in Training Development?
Can you take a systems approach to creativity in training development? Many would argue you can’t. At 江湖电竞 , we’ve created an environment that nurtures and promotes creativity. This environment relies …
In Defense of Level 1 for Instructional Design Professionals
Sometimes I think that we’re too quick to dismiss level-one feedback as we target the upper realms of Donald Kirkpatrick’s levels of evaluation or even Jack Phillips’s ROI. Although such lofty …
What Did You Say?
“Make sure the dialogue is authentic.” I am sure many instructional design teams have heard such a request. It is after such a comment that I inevitably sit in front …
Benefits of internal collaboration and collaboration between client and vendor teams
Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, authors of Learning to Fly: Practical Knowledge Management from Leading and Learning Organizations, were members of BP’s Knowledge Management team. They wrote the said book …