My first interest in ASTD came in 1949 when I finished my MBA in Personnel Management from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. A discussion with my professor, Dr. Russell Moberly, led me to take a job as an instructor with the Management Institute (MI) of th... More »

Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Beginner Level Content , Measuring and Evaluating , Training and Development - General

I think about safety quite a bit. For one thing, I work in manufacturing, and were attuned to the possibility of production floor accidents. Because I also travel frequently for my job, Ive learned much about simple ways to keep myself out of harms way while on solo... More »

Career Development

Beginner Level Content , Training and Development - General , Trends

Darlene Van Tiem, CPT, CPLP, is associate professor emeritus, performance improvement and instructional design, University of Michigan Dearborn, and is on the faculty of Capella University. She was formerly training director at AT&T Yellow Pages (Midwest) and... More »

Career Development , Learning & Development

Beginner Level Content , Career Planning , Jobs , Training and Development - General

A discussion of all web presentation software would be impossible; more than 100 different packages are out there, with more added all the time. As if that werent daunting enough, most of them do version or feature upgrades at least once a year. Instead, lets focus on t... More »

Learning Technologies

Beginner Level Content , Delivering Training , E-Learning , Training and Development - General

In Latin educare to educate means to draw out. But it seems as if education and training are often more focused on a top-down teaching approach, where information is disseminated, than a true drawing-out process in which participants discover the learning through a proc... More »

Learning & Development

Beginner Level Content , Delivering Training , Engagement , Training and Development - General