A Reflection on my Career in Learning It was 1980-something when I graduated college with a business degree, prepared for a career in marketing. After several attempts to get a job in a tough employment market, I landed a position doing something I could’ve never imagined — writing proposals for a custom training consultancy in […]
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Eight Components to Cultivate a Robust Learning Experience It’s gardening season where I live, one of my favorite times of the year. Waiting for perennials to come up, watching for buds and leaves to appear, moving plants to more favorable locations in the yard, deciding what vegetables to plant where, all bring me joy. I’m […]
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Five Features Every Learning Portal Should Have At the beginning of the pandemic, I made the choice to enroll my first grader in our school district’s virtual academy. I thought, “Virtual learning, this is an aspect of my job — how hard could it be?” Ha! My son’s courses are provided through vendors,each with a […]
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Using Empathy to Create Impactful Learning At the end of 2020, a colleague and I were recapping the year’s experiences and the abrupt shift that had to occur in learning for many companies. In particular, we’d both noticed how often the word “empathy” had come up in client conversations, and in industry articles, blogs, and […]
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Five Digital Learning Strategy Revelations Last year indeed proved to be a year of pivoting for learning organizations… pivoting on the technology infrastructure used to support learning… how training is delivered… what technologies are used for learning… and how learning is being consumed. What can we net-out from all of this? I recently moderated a […]
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Five Considerations to Building an Animation Library In case you weren’t already in the know, animation takes a lot of time. A few seconds worth of high quality animation can take days, entire scenes take months, and the films Disney and Dreamworks release take several years and hundreds of artists! With that in mind, the […]
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Five Actions to Take to Advance Your Learning Future Now that we are many months into this pandemic, I think we’ve come to realize that many of our normal routines have changed forever — at home and at work. For learning professionals, those whose work weeks were largely filled with maintaining and delivering live instructor-led […]
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Create — Instead of Convert — Virtual Instructor-led training In the past few months, we’ve all found ourselves connecting more in a virtual space than in person. Before this, I wouldn’t have taken an online exercise class or used a telemedicine service. Why would I when I live in an urban area with so many […]
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Color Has A Big Impact On Learners Color is an extremely powerful tool. It can affect your mood, well-being, thoughts, and motivation. Research suggests that different colors play a role in cognitive functions. For example, researchers at the University of Linz in Austria demonstrated that the color red significantly decreases cognitive functioning in men. And […]
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3D Animation Can Add Dimension to Your Custom E-Learning Projects Animation is a great way to grab learners’ attention in e-learning, but how do you determine when and how to use 3D to take it to the next level of engagement? It’s helpful to think about 3D options in stages of complexity (and cost). When […]
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