Archive for category Learning Theory To Practice
Featured Training Tool: Training Needs Assessment Step-By-Step Helpcard
Posted by Robert Bacal in Advice For Trainers, Learning Theory To Practice, Training Tools & Techniques, adult education on February 19, 2010
Training Needs Assessment Step-By-Step Helpcard guides you through conducting a training needs assessment, and it’s all on two sides of an 8.5 x11 inch “card”. Meant for busy people who haven’t time to read books on the subject and need to get the job done NOW. Also an economical job aid to keep with you.
Special Tweet Series #3: Learning Theories As Applied To Instruction
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, Special Tweet Series, Training Tools & Techniques on December 11, 2009
As our first in the Special Tweet Series (on leadership styles) ended, we’re about to begin the next one. This time the topic is Learning theories as applied to instruction.
Many trainers and learners have had some contact with the more popularized concepts and theories of learning, and limited contact with some of the more important [...]
Concepts versus Skills in Training
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice on August 27, 2009
Don Clark, who is a prolific internet poster and website owner and I had a conversation about understanding the differences between concept and skill. Although we didn’t solve the issue, it’s interesting for trainers, since what we teach affects (or should) how we teach.
Don starts off (the parts with the >)
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 [...]
Informal Learning: Extending the Impact of Enterprise Ideas and Information – Free White Paper
Posted by Robert Bacal in FREE!, Learning Theory To Practice, adult education, human resources on August 23, 2009
Informal Learning: Extending the Impact of Enterprise Ideas and Information
Short Description: Forward-thinking organizations are turning to enterprise learning in their quest to be better informed, better skilled, better supported at the point of need, and more competitive in their respective marketplaces.
Long Description: It is clear that as enterprise learning becomes a central part of strategic [...]
Older Worker Training: An Overview. ERIC Digest
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, adult education on August 21, 2009
Older Worker Training: An Overview. ERIC Digest No. 114.
A number of economic and demographic trends are focusing attention on older workers: individuals over age 55 will continue to constitute a larger proportion of the total population; people are living longer, healthier lives and many see full- or part-time employment as a means of remaining [...]
How People Learn (and What Technology Might Have To Do with It). ERIC Digest.
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, Training & Technology, adult education on August 21, 2009
ERIC Identifier: ED470032
Publication Date: 2002-10-00
Author: Driscoll, Marcy P.
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology Syracuse NY.
How People Learn (and What Technology Might Have To Do with It). ERIC Digest.
Cognitive Science and Assessment (Research Digest)
Posted by Robert Bacal in Learning Theory To Practice, adult education on August 21, 2009
ERIC Identifier: ED481716
Publication Date: 2003
Author: Boston, Carol
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Cognitive Science and Assessment. ERIC Digest.
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? [...]
Incest, Diversity, and Damage to Social Learning and Learning Profession
We know from psychological research that human beings tend to discount information, data, or viewpoints that conflict with their pre-existing positions on any issue. We all do that to some degree. What is jarring is seeing learning professionals, trainers and teachers deliberately avoiding interacting with those who have views different from their’s.
I’ve seen this among [...]
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