Beef Up Your Training Toolbox With Web Tools

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Mary Green

Your learning and development materials can sizzle with some easy, and often free, online tools. To keep ideas fresh and learning engaging, training and development professionals need to constantly update, freshen, or create new training materials. Fortuna... More »

Networking is the Goal; Social Media is the Tool

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Michele Lawson

Networking is a word that evokes dread in many people. While most of us would agree its a necessary evil, few of us know how to successfully use events to form professional contacts and lifelong friends. I was once one of those people. I have always admired how ... More »

ISD Practices and Principles

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Chuck Hodell

Instructional systems development has been in existence for a long time. Even though ISD is now recognized and implemented worldwide, there are many facets of the ISD process that are misunderstood or underappreciated. ISD in its purist form is simply a system for the d... More »

Learning Strategies

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Jackie Dobrovolny

The model presented in "A Model for Self-Paced Technology-Based Training" specifies that adult learning begins with and is sustained by self-assessment and self-correction (metacognition). The model also indicates that in addition to metacognition, adults consistently u... More »

10 Tips for Designing M-Learning and Support Apps

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Connie Malamed

For quite a while now, Ive been pouring over mobile design books, listening to podcasts and reading online content to learn the best practices for designing mobile phone applications as I design one of my own. Strangely enough, it seems as though many gurus actually agr... More »