Category Archives: learning

31 Steps to Live to 100

Orginally posted at The Longevity Strategy: How to Live to 100 Using the Brain-Body Connection Part One: Get the Longevity Attitude 1. Start looking forward to living to 100 years of age or older. The twenty-first century will be the age of the centenarian. 2. Discard negative stereotyped thinking about aging. 3. Assume the oddsContinueContinue reading “31 Steps to Live to 100”

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Knowledge Management Review: FOCUSING ON BEHAVIORS AND LEARNING AT SHELL

I participated in a KM / Enterprise 2.0 session with Royal Dutch Shell via APQC in which they shared  a lot of great things about what they are doing in this arena. I found this article that captures very well what we covered in the session. I like that their focus is on the peopleContinueContinue reading “Knowledge Management Review: FOCUSING ON BEHAVIORS AND LEARNING AT SHELL”

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BOOKSTOREAD.COM

I just found this on Bookstoread.com. The purpose of the Top Ten Lists is to showcase the bookshelves of leaders in the field. If you’re familiar with instructional design literature you’ll know most, if not all of these names. Allison Rossett, David Merrill, Jeroen Van Merrienboer & more! They each give their personal top 10 IDContinueContinue reading “BOOKSTOREAD.COM”

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Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » SME? Not for me

Great post about SMEs vs. “expert practioners”. I like what Dave says in this paragraph in particular.   A subject-matter expert can trace the theoretical route of some process (along with its uncles, grandparents, and third cousins twice removed). An expert practitioner can tell you from direct experience how that process operates in the real worldContinueContinue reading “Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » SME? Not for me”

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Question your work – (37signals)

Based on the large corporate wide project I’ve been working on lately I really wish everyone could avoid the “group think” and ask themselves Jason’s questions from this post. I just spent 45 minutes discussing whether or not there should be a “corporate governance” around using dashes (-) vs underscores (_) in course IDs withinContinueContinue reading “Question your work – (37signals)”

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Bad grades? Faulty memory could be to blame – Yahoo! News

Working memory is the new IQ? Per this article “Some psychologists consider working memory to be the new IQ because we find that working memory is the single most important predictor of learning,” For instructional designers the key point is this… “Since there is this limit, it is important to put in the right thing.ContinueContinue reading “Bad grades? Faulty memory could be to blame – Yahoo! News”

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