I recently had a conversation with a senior learning leader at a well-known company. She was evaluating various LMSes for their potential fit in helping her organization reboot its learning …
Thinking Beyond the LMS: Four Ways a Learning Portal Strategy Will Improve Your Learning Ecosystem
It’s become an industry meme: we love to complain about our old-school learning management systems (LMSs). Virtually every training and performance technology conference I’ve been to, I’ve seen headline sessions …
Finding a Focus: Four Ways Next-gen Learning Portals Change How You See Performance
In recent years, gigapixel photos have become popular. Capturing visuals from national parks, cityscapes, and sporting events, these photos stitch together many high-fidelity images to create amazingly detailed panoramas. The …
Putting the :) back in learning lifecycles
Here’s the situation: You’re responsible for corporate training, and you’ve just told your management team they have to (get to?) take a new online management course series. The courses are …
I Knew It All Along! : Cognitive Bias and Instructional Design
I’ve long been fascinated by cognitive biases. Like warped mirrors, these thought processes distort our perceptions and skew our decision-making. Psychologists tell us that common cognitive biases include confirmation bias—unwittingly …
Playing the Budget Showdown
Here’s the typical scenario. You’re the client, you’ve got a training project, and you’re looking for the right training development vendor. The last thing you want to do is tip …