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Creative Commons and Discovery Learning

10 Apr

I’m not a graphic designer. I’m a very amateur photographer, and a mostly-non-recording Imagemusician. So, I’ve had little reason to pay very close attention to the Creative Commons movement, and how it is changing the way creators and consumers of digital media interact.

But with a little help from articles like this, I’m realizing more and more that how we share, use, re-share and reference resources that are readily available and a mere click away has a lot to do with the way we learn today. And even more about what ways in which we’ll be learning in a very close-at-hand tomorrow.

It references back to ideas about learners as their own curators and creators instantly enhance learning. For adult learning and professional development, it will be interesting to see the ways this intersects with the move towards “big data” and the movement towards available data crunching and graphic display technology that has been the buzz in the business world recently.

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Linking Training to Performace

21 Mar

A course is just a course, but better performance is transformational.

Will Thalheimer, PhD, a big name in training and adult learning circles, has done quite a few short video presentations along with his articles, books, blogs and teaching. This is one of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbReKzaYVY

It makes the strong case for looking at the overall job performance as the measure of a training program. The implication is that too many folks — clients, trainers and Instructional Designers included — focus on a course or curriculum rather than on performance outcomes.

It is too true. At times it is lack of time or vision on the part of course developers, but more often it is lack of organizational/institutional support (understanding!) for what training and e-learning’s mission really is.

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