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PDX T&D First Fridays - next meetup November 7!
Monday, October 6th, 2008Interested in a monthly happy hour with some of your fabulous Portland-area training colleagues? You’re in luck! Last week a few ASTDers met for the first of what we hope will be a monthly happy hour! We just happened to all be ASTD members, but that isn’t a requirement. This is just a low key [...]
Needed: A Company to be a Case Study on Web 2.0
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Image by ____federico____ via Flickr
Jim and I met earlier this year. He is doing his doctoral dissertation by creating a case study examining the use of wikis and podcasts for training and performance improvement within an organization. The company he was working with changed leadership and decided not to participate in the research. In fact, their commitment [...]
October Webinar: Informal Learning in the 21st Century
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Join us for the Social Learning SIG’s October Webinar
Title: Informal Learning in the 21st Century
Description: There’s a true transformation happening on the Internet. The passive read-only experience of static web pages is changing into active participation via the read-write web. Our children are on Facebook and listening to podcasts on their Ipods, and every day [...]
Getting to the roots of performance
Friday, September 12th, 2008Here’s one of the honorable mentions from the Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest. It talks about getting to the roots of a performance issue, and includes a great tool at the end that you can print out to help you with assessment.
Got Roots?
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: learning tool)
If you are interested [...]
Agonizing over social learning?
Monday, August 4th, 2008A while back I wrote a post on Learning Frameworks, about work being done by Ray Jimenez Ph. D. He dropped by the post and left a comment, where he says he agonizes:
I agonize about social learning. For me there is a huge jump from traditional learning to Web 2.0/social learning. I must be really [...]