Would an organization be able to survive without adapting to the ever-changing business environment as we know it today? For example, technological advancements triggered change across corporate training departments urging them to digitalize learning offerings. To guide successful change, Biech… Continue Reading →

For this assignment I was asked to describe my approach to leadership, the leadership theories pertinent to leading change in digital learning and whether my leadership approach was impacted by the introduction of digital technologies. I will also discuss, according… Continue Reading →

Discussing with an industry well-respected professor of educational technology at a top Canadian university and Fellow at the Institute for Performance and Learning (I4PL), I asked him where would he position Design Thinking (aka d.Design process) within the I4PL Canada’s training… Continue Reading →

Unit 1 of the LRNT 524 course introduced me to the Stanford Design Thinking process. It is considered a contemporary (generic) approach for designing through problem finding and design thinking mindset. Design thinking is a human-centered process that allows us… Continue Reading →

Kate designs global experiential learning cohorts for undergraduate programs. Dino leads learning and design efforts for pilot training at a Canadian airline. Despite having disparate contexts both are seeking blended learning strategies to increase, the utility, accessibility and engagement in… Continue Reading →

Since the focus of this week’s activities is designing learning, it is important to distinguish learning design from instructional design. George Veletsianos in LRNT 523 commented in one of my assignments that “learning is not something to design, but it… Continue Reading →

Josh Bersin is a world-respected industry analyst focused on corporate HR, Learning, talent management, leadership development, and HR technology. He is the founder of Bersin & Associates, which was sold to Deloitte and is now known as Bersin by Deloitte…. Continue Reading →

Authored by: Dino Hatzigeorgiou, Sue Hawkins, Tanya Heck, Melem Sharpe, Physaun Wilkes The great media debate between Richard Clark and Robert Kozma was sparked by an article written in 1983 by Clark on “Reconsidering Research on Learning from Media.” The… Continue Reading →

This post is focused on the role of the military in the development of educational technology with an emphasis on the origins of the field of performance-based training, the methodologies and the ISD models used. The spreadsheet provided in the link… Continue Reading →