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Employee Engagement – The Mad Fad of the 2000’s – A Poor Construct
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Performance Management and Appraisal, Research, Robert's Editorials, Site News, human resources on February 1, 2010
A colleague asked me where one could find criticisms of Employee Engagement, the buzzterm championed by marketplace monster, Gallup. There’s tons of stuff about it pushing it and making it appear to be as vital and important as…well, let’s see, Total Quality Management, Quality Circles, Employee Empowerment, and on and on.
There is very little PUBLICLY [...]
Knowledge Management in Instructional Design. ERIC Digest.
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, Research, Training & Technology, Training Tools & Techniques, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, adult education on August 25, 2009
Knowledge Management in Instructional Design. ERIC Digest.
Instructional designers engage in activities related to the planning and implementation of instructional and performance support solutions. Available tools and technologies influence the way in which instructional designers accomplish their tasks. Knowledge management represents a technology that is [...]
Distance Education and Accreditation – How It Works
Posted by Robert Bacal in For Learners, Research, adult education on August 25, 2009
Distance Education and Accreditation. ERIC Digest.
In 1997-1998, there were more than 1.3 million enrollments in college-level, credit-granting distance education courses – approximately double the almost 754,000 formal enrollments in 1994-1995 (Lewis, Snow, Farris, and Levin, 1999, p. 50). The number of courses offered also almost doubled, [...]
Organizational Culture and Institutional Transformation (Research)
Posted by Robert Bacal in Managing and Organizations, Research on August 24, 2009
During the past two decades higher education in America has attempted a number of reforms. Reform efforts are predicated on the assumption that proactive, intentional change efforts in colleges and universities can succeed despite the predilection for tradition and maintaining the existing culture. Culture proves to be a critical component in understanding the process of [...]
Narrative and Stories in Adult Teaching and Learning
Posted by Robert Bacal in Research, adult education on August 18, 2009
Narrative and Stories in Adult Teaching and Learning
ERIC Digest, by Rossiter, Marsha
Narrative and stories in education have been the focus of increasing attention in recent years. The idea of narrative is fertile ground for adult educators who know intuitively the value of stories in teaching and learning. Narrative is deeply appealing and richly satisfying to [...]
Trauma and Adult Learning
Posted by Robert Bacal in Research, adult education on August 18, 2009
Trauma and Adult Learning. ERIC Digest.
by Kerka, Sandra
Adult learning can often be challenging, and traumatic events add extreme challenges to the learning process. The catalog of sources of trauma is sadly long: psychological or physical abuse, rape, war, forced relocation, diagnosis of a terminal illness, job loss, death or suicide of a loved one, [...]
The Learning Organization – In Depth Myths and Realities Series
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, Managing and Organizations, Research, adult education on August 17, 2009
Myths and Realities by Sandra Kerka, 1995
The Learning Organization
At least since the 1990 publication of Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, the concept of the learning organization (LO) has been promoted as a way to restructure organizations to meet the challenges of the coming century. What are learning organizations-in theory and in practice? [...]
Meharabian, verbal, non-verbal communication and some lovely irony
Posted by Robert Bacal in Research, Stupid Trainer Tricks, Training Wisdom or Training Foolishness, Videos of Note on August 7, 2009
I’ve pointed out that the numbers oft quoted with reference to the percentages of meaning that come from verbal, and non-verbal cues, and attributed to Meharabian, were never actually said by him, at least in the way that is commonly understood.
So I was looking forward to seeing a video entitled “Busting the Meharabian Myth” which [...]
Teaching Critical Reflection, Myths and Realities 7
Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Managing and Organizations, Research, Training Tools & Techniques, adult education on July 28, 2009
Teaching Critical Reflection, Myths and Realities 7. by David Stein. 2000 PDF Available
The ability to reflect critically on one’s experience, integrate knowledge gained from experience with knowledge possessed, and take action on insights is considered by some adult educators to be a distinguishing feature of the adult learner (Brookfield 1998; Ecclestone 1996; Mezirow 1991). Critical [...]
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