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I've been looking for a good phrase to replace 'engagement'. Is it emotion, or motivation, or... Here're some thoughts.| Learnlets
In a recent post, Harold Jarche talks eloquently about moving into the networked era, and practices of workscaping. He points to this insightful model by Jane Hart, showing the bigger picture supporting performance in the workplace, or what I like to call Big L learning.| Learnlets
How do you review? You could do a full coverage, but instead how about a cognitive audit for the small changes with big impact?| Learnlets
I've been looking for a good phrase to replace 'engagement'. Is it emotion, or motivation, or... Here're some thoughts.| Learnlets
LXD may be an improved approach, but how do you learn it in useful ways to incorporate it in your practices?| Learnlets
If you get the design right, there are lots of ways to implement it; if you don’t get the design right, it doesn’t matter how you implement it. Too often, people under design and overproduce, resulting in great looking products that are worthless. This is certainly the case in elearning, but you see it […]| Learnlets
I try not to commercialize this blog. It doesn’t cost, you can get ad free updates in your email, and of course it’s really for me ;). Still, once in a while there’s something I do want to draw your attention to. And, of course, you can stop here. However, I’ll suggest you at least give this a look. What I’m talking about are the whys and whats of an upcoming mini-scenario workshop I’ll be running on 9/11 from 11-3:30 ET. (Yes, I know, that date, but really, we don’t want to le...| Learnlets
I try not to commercialize this blog. It doesn’t cost, you can get ad free updates in your email, and of course it’s really for me ;). Still, once in a while there’s something I do want to draw your attention to. And, of course, you can stop here. However, I’ll suggest you at least give […] The post Announcing my mini-scenario workshop appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
As this is my place to ‘think out loud’, here’s yet another thought that occurred to me: is ‘average’ good enough? And, just what am I talking about? Well, LLMs are, by and large, trained on a vast corpora. Essentially, it’s averaging what is known. It’s creating summaries of what’s out there, based upon what’s […] The post Is ‘average’ good enough? appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
I’ve worked with a lot of organizations that train others. I’ve consulted to them, spoken to them, and of course written and spoken for them. (And, of course, others!) And, I’ve seen that they have a reliable problem. Over the years, it occurs to me that these failures stem from a pattern that’s understandable, and […] The post Training Organization Fails appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
Every year, the inimitable Jane Hart collects what people say are their top 10 tools for learning. The results are always intriguing, for instance, last year AI really jumped up the list. You can vote using this form, or email your list to her via the address on that page. I’ve participated every year I’ve […] The post Top 10 Learning Tools 2025 appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
While the whole process is important, I tend focus early on the process (and then the bigger picture). What about when we go beyond design?| Learnlets
The post I did yesterday on Distributed Cognition also triggered another thought, about the augmented learner. The cited post talked about how design doesn’t recognize the augmented performer, and this is a point I’ve made elsewhere, but I wanted to capture it in a richer representation. Naturally, I made a diagram: If we […]| Learnlets
When we do learning, we must be active. That is, it’s not enough to receive information. (Unless we’re actively practicing and attending presentations are reflection.) We must do! Then the question becomes one of doing ‘what’? I’m seeing too many of the wrong sorts of things in play, so it’s worth asking: what sorts of activities should we be doing?| Learnlets
So, I know I’ve talked about this before (not least, here), but it seems to continue to persist. What I’m talking about is the continuing interest in neuroscience for L&D. And, as has been said by others, it’s the wrong level of analysis. What, then, is the ‘right’ level? Here’re my thoughts, and I welcome yours. […] The post The ‘right’ level appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
Retrieval practice can be approximated with auto-marked activities, such as mini-scenarios. How about auto-marked generative activities?| Learnlets
I've talked about working with SMEs and the information you get, and about miniscenarios. What is the mapping of information to miniscenarios?| Learnlets
One of the things I’ve recognized is that we don’t pay enough attention to context. It turns out to be a really important factor in cognition, as our long-term memory interacts with the current context to determine our interpretation. And, as such, makes our interpretations very ’emergent’. Thus, our training needs to ensure that we’re liable to make the right interpretation and so choose the right action. Do we do this well? And can artificial intelligence (AI), specifically genera...| Learnlets
One of the things I’ve recognized is that we don’t pay enough attention to context. It turns out to be a really important factor in cognition, as our long-term memory interacts with the current context to determine our interpretation. And, as such, makes our interpretations very ’emergent’. Thus, our training needs to ensure that we’re […] The post Context and models appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
Bad questions are not the answer to move from knowledge to performance. What is needed? Let's look at the types of questions we ask.| Learnlets
I've maintained we can and should do more with engagement. Now, with the advent of LLM AIs, I truly think emotion is the new ID.| Learnlets
I’ve regularly suggested that you want to use the right media for the task, and there are specific cognitive properties of media that help determine the answer. One important dimension is context versus concept, and another is dynamic versus static. But I realized I needed to extend it. To start with, concepts are relationships, such […]| Learnlets
I’ve been advising Elevator 9 on learning science. Now, while I advise companies via consulting, this is a different picture. For one, they’re keen to bake learning science into the core, which is rare and (in my mind) valuable. It’s also a learning opportunity for me. I’m watching all the things a startup has to […] The post Continually learning appeared first on Learnlets.| Learnlets
What is involved in writing for learning? Our language matters, and it will differ in different parts. Some thoughts.| Learnlets
One of the ways I’ve been thinking about the role mobile can play in design is thinking about how our brains work, and don’t. It came out of both mobile and the recent cognitive science for learning workshop I gave at the recent DevLearn. This applies more broadly to performance support in general, so I […]| Learnlets
I’m writing a chapter about mobile trends, and one of the things I’m concluding with are the different ways we need to think to take advantage of mobile. The first one emerged as I wrote and kind of surprised me, but I think there’s merit. The notion is one I’ve talked about before, about how […]| Learnlets
I have a statement that I actively recite to people: If I promise to do something, and it doesn’t get into a device, we never had the conversation. I’m not trying to be coy or problematic, there are sound reasons for this. It’s part of distributed cognition, and augmenting ourselves. It’s also part of a bigger picture, but here I am in praise of reminders.| Learnlets
Human in the loop has several problems, most notably the lack of specifics. Is 'expert in the loop better? I argue the case.| Learnlets
I've advocated that even for rote knowledge you should make meaningful practice. I've now found research that supports me!| Learnlets
On the way to the recent Up To All Of Us unconference (#utaou), I hadn’t planned a personal agenda. However, I was going through the diagrams that I’d created on my iPad, and discovered one that I’d frankly forgotten. Which was nice, because it allowed me to review it with fresh eyes, and it resonated. […]| Learnlets
Learning should be active. So what sorts of activities do we need? Generative and retrieval 'for use', is what the research says.| Learnlets
Where's the intelligence in gen AI? Is it in the AI? Or our use of it? The locus of intelligence is still with us.| Learnlets
Increasingly, our work at many levels is about thinking. Folks approach it from different perspectives, so what and why cognitive science?| Learnlets
How do you get the necessary grounding to be the L&D practitioner you could and should be? Introducing the Learning Science Conference 2024.| Learnlets
There's a lot of talk about AI, but there's smoke as well as fire. Here, I present a brief AI overview that hopefully provides some clarity.| Learnlets
