Around this time of year, the design industry starts to create lists about the top trends of the year. While I’m always eager to read those lists, a recent conversation …
Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 3
“Is Instructional Design Dead?” There was a great discussion around this question in one of the sessions. I am glad that the conclusion was, “No, it’s very much alive but …
Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 2
Learning Affordances When technology provides additional capabilities for employees to do their work more efficiently, it allows us to think about the emerging technologies from the affordance perspective—rather than just …
Learning Trends: Highlights from the Masie 2011 Conference – Pt. 1
Last week I attended Elliot Masie’s Learning 2011 Conference with two colleagues. There were over 2,000 training professionals gathered at the magical Disney resort in Orlando. The energy around us …
Corporate Learners, the Renaissance, and Autodidacticism
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, …
Innovation: Step Away from the Box for Training and Development Professionals
I recently read an article about the state of our economy that had an interesting take on the problem. It didn’t blame the Bernie Madoffs of the world, or the …
Breakthrough Ideas on Learner Motivation? Or Just Looking More Deeply at What You Already Knew?
The January/February issue of Harvard Business Review this year addressed a few “breakthrough ideas” for the year. The first one, “What Really Motivates Workers: Understanding the Power of Progress” by …
First Day at Learning 2008
As can be expected, this year’s Masie 2008 is a show and challenging process for learning professionals to check and recheck some of their assumptions about training and development. As …
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
I just returned from San Jose, where I was in attendance at Brandon Hall’s Innovations in Learning Conference. I had a great time, connected with some of our clients, and …