Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Paul Signorelli

Trainer-teacher-learners familiar with Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions and Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking will be well-primed to appreciate and savor Nobel Prize-winning aut... More »

Designing Games for E-Learning: A Framework

Purnima Valiathan

A framework and taxonomy to help workplace learning professionals design games for e-learning. 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 »

Case Study: A Virtual Success at VALIC

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Annamarie Lang

VALIC, a member company of SunAmerica Financial Group and market leader in group retirement savings plans achieved great results using a virtual classroom. It started as a necessity: The economic slowdown drove the need to develop new skills among leaders, while also de... More »