Good Is Good, and Bad Is Horrid

Linda Hainlen

A recent conversation about training brought that poem to mind. Our conversation premise was: Training is either good or bad – no matter how it is served. We spend a lot of time as learning professionals, making our classroom slides prettier and converting them ... More »

Applying Bloom’s Taxonomy to Learning Technologies

Jennifer Hofmann

As the use of various learning technologies becomes commonplace in training departments, a perception has been building that implies that you can force fit any content into any technology. There are several fundamental problems with this perception: We are looki... More »

Learning Democracy

Silvio Stoppoloni

Someone recently raised the question as to whether living in a context of war, peace, or crisis can change the characteristics of a trainer’s duties. Nowadays in Europe and in Italy, a deep crisis is perceived, and it is generating distrust toward institutions a... More »

Podcast: Best Practices for Partnering With SMEs

Juana Llorens

When working on instructional design projects with subject matter experts (SMEs), there are numerous moving parts to take into consideration—for launching a project, defining roles, bringing key players into the fold, and solving common critical issues with these... More »

Learners of Time Management Need to Be Taught Metacognitive Skills

Francis Wade

As trainers, when we conduct training in time management, we need to provide our audience with more than laundry lists of optimal behaviors. Instead, we need to show learners how to use the simplest principles of metacognitive learning—the science of teaching ours... More »