E-learning seems to be growing more complicated lately. Whether the field is expanding, or I am just listening better, I find there are many acronyms and terms (LCMS, LMS, SCORM are some the most frequent) that I can’t actually define.
One primary goal of this blog is to help you keep up with the changing landscape of the workplace learning and performance profession. E-learning is a huge part of that change. (E-learning is also a significant component in 4 knowledge items in the CPLP Knowledge Exam Content Outline.) (more…)
In an article published on the Harvard Business site last Friday, Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd suggested that we will soon be working in a 5-generation workforce. Change is already galloping ahead of us; are we going into overdrive?
It seems to me that many organizations are still struggling to cope with 4 generations in the workplace. I work in a small business that employs 4 generations – we are mostly Boomers and Gen-X, however, our oldest was (more…)
Twitter users have probably met him, but if you haven’t started tweeting, you may be missing one of the fastest rising celebrities on the internet: Sockamillion, aka Sockington. Socks is a housecat with his very own Twitter account. He keeps the world posted on his professional activities, with Tweets such as
“and so I slept and then I walked around and then I slept again and then I saw a cobweb and OH FINE YES IT IS A SLOW NEWS DAY”
“excuse me pardon me up stairs not explaining why going around corner WHO HOO RUNNING LIKE MANIAC back around corner excuse me pardon me”
“time for sockington talk show WELL MORE LIKE I AM YOWLING IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM still I make an excellent musical guest”
Did you think there was nothing but banal airheaded celebrity conversation on Twitter? You were so wrong! Join Socks’ army of 1,000,000 and rising. Go to http://twitter.com/sockington and click Follow.
ASTD's Talent Management Model
I noticed an article in the May 2009 T+D by Andrew Paradise which defined Talent Management. Talent Management is one of the 9 Areas of Expertise (AoE) in ASTD’s Learning & Performance Competency model. Since I’m reading the May issue of T+D in August, I suspect that a few of my readers might also have missed this information. For those of you who haven’t seen that definition yet, here it is: (more…)
When was the last time you went to the library to do research? There was a time when you had to go to the library to access business books, journals, and even the catalogs of material contained in those publications.
Have you ever searched on a topic in Google, found an abstract that looked like exactly what you wanted, only to find out the full article would cost you $10 just to view?
Moving all of that information from the library to the Internet was only a matter of time, with the emergence of digital everything over the last 20 years. But access to all that information has been restricted to academic institutions and paying organizations. ASTD has removed that barrier for its members, by including EBSCOhost as a part of its membership benefits.
There are a couple of other research resources worth mentioning as well. Follow me, and we’ll take a brief tour of the ASTD Knowledge Center. (more…)
This blog entry from Fast Company is worth a read by itself. It raises some interesting questions.
In this entry, Robert Brunner hypothesizes:
We are so connected now that peace is elusive. I know I have had to force myself at times to just say no to my iPhone–I find myself in social situations having to stifle the urge to crank up the ol’ pocket pal just to see what is up. We are bombarded constantly with e-mail, IMs, Twitters, RSS feeds, YouTube, iPhone games, the list goes on and on. It’s hard to find moments where the brain can just be still.