Top 5 Questions to ask BEFORE you hire your training consultant

As a training manager (or a project manager in charge of the training), you will be faced with the prospect of hiring an internal team, hiring a consulting group, or a mix of both.

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Lifelong Learning: the Introduction to Lori Reed

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In my quest to work through the 23 new web 2.0 things, I have started with the general introduction to the concept of Lifelong Learning.  The “course” links to an Articulate-produced, e-learning module/course designed by Lori Reed, whose site indicates:
My name is Lori Reed. I’m the Employee Learning & Development Coordinator for the [...]

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Learning 2.0 – 23 Things

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Learning 2.0 – 23 Things.
I stumbled across this mini-course, made in Blogger, which purports to teach the user 23 new and cool things about the web in as many weeks (perhaps sooner).
I am going to try it out.

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Paperless Classrooms: a miscelleny

I have a tendency to open an article, skim, and then decide that it will take more attention than I have at the moment to address, process or blog about.  So, I leave the tab open in Firefox (which once opened, will re-open upon restart).  This process has left me with 5 firefox windows with [...]

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Music in instruction

Arguing against the old-school notion that learning can only occur in absolute quiet (think a library), her experience with her class told her that learning often occurs when a student is able to focus on a task (obvious enough). But she was not to prevail against policy.

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Technology and Higher Ed–Educause survey

Just how wired are our colleges and universities?  Educause, a non-profit whose mission states that they are transforming higher ed through IT, was reported in InsideHigherEd as having released a survey/report about the use of IT in colleges and universities.
A brief summery goes like this:

Use of open source: 32% (2005) –> 47% (2006) –> 51% [...]

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Taking college content home–Streaming lectures

While I can appreciate hesitation to being filmed (one mis-fired joke endlessly looped on YouTube sort of horrors), I also see tremendous benefit in providing access to as wide a range of educational content as possible.

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Teaching to the metrics–dangers to k-12s and business

Metrics will pop up quite often on this blog as I wrestle with just how to use performance indicators to “pulse” the learning encounter. It seems that often how to test and then how that test is used determines the outcome–Schrödinger’s Cat in training.

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Education Question: Is Googling “Research”?

What Berkeley and Cornell are both wrestling with is the complication of performing research in an iPod age. The players as I see them: “digital native” students, cranky, if well-meaning professors, Google and brick-n-mortar libraries. Oh yea, and Steve Jobs.

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