Crossing the Digital Divide: Networking and career development for online learners
How do I grow my network of colleagues and gain industry experience sitting on my sofa at home taking online classes?
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Blogging 101: How to write engaging and informative content
If you’ve never written a blog post before, where do you begin? I offer strategies to quickly get up to speed: Know your Blog: If you are a guest blogger, start by familiarizing yourself with the blog purpose, readers, style, and message. I will direct you to two popular guest posts that serve as an excellent example of how to write for
Read moreShow Me Your Digital Badge: A new tool for higher education?
There’s a new badge in town and it’s digital, portable, and displayed in a multitude of locations including your resume, social network sites, and perhaps someday, even your diploma. A grown-up version of merit badges earned by scouts and video game fans, digital badges both motivate and measure learning. Linked to course objectives or competencies, they can document learning and drive
Read moreTraining at the Movies Part 1: What can Patrick Swayze teach us about manners?
BY ERIC HAHN Roosevelt Training and Development Graduate assistant As cases of alleged police brutality garner media attention and ignite protests around the country, it is no surprise that some municipalities have been reassessing how they train law enforcement workers. However, a surprise did come via Larry Celona and Bruce Golding’s February 24 New York Post article about the NYPD
Read moreAre MOOCs Doomed to Fail?
By Paulina Merino MATD Graduate Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) a revolution in higher education or will they forever be just a form of knowledge sharing? Are MOOCs even a “real” education? Their proponents speak about energy, enthusiasm and change happening in today’s education sector and call it “education innovation” (Boyers, 2013). At the same time, many educators believe
Read moreCareer-changer finds prospects to be even better than expected in the field of training and development
Being a “career-change” student in the Training and Development program, I’m often asked, “So, what kind of job do you want when you graduate?” After managing the job board for the TRDV blog for a few months, I’ve discovered the possibilities are endless. Training and Development is truly a hot field right now, and opportunities abound in various industries. I’ve
Read moreGamification: Are you Ready?
By Vincent L. Cyboran, Ed.D. Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Training and Development Most Baby Boomers can remember the opening episode of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ in which Mary Richards is seated in the office of her new boss, Lou Grant. After she answers a few of his questions and is grinning from ear-to-ear, Mr. Grant says to her:
Read moreBirds or Fish? Internal and External Consultants
By Kathleen Iverson Sky and Water, by M.C. Escher, is a tessellated image of birds changing to fish when they sink below the water line. Depending on whether you see the background or foreground as dominant, you see either fish or birds at the water line. To me, this image represents the relationship between internal and external learning consultants. Like
Read moreKeeping Up Made Easy (or, Why You Need to Follow Elliott Masie)
As a hiring manager, one of the questions I always asked candidates was “How do you keep up in the field?” There is no one right answer to this question, but there are many variations on wrong answers to the question. Being in graduate school provides you with a ready-made answer: you are learning about foundational theories and models, as
Read moreSocial Networking and Organizational Learning
By: Kathleen Iverson Prior to the Internet, the last technological innovation that had a significant effect on the way people sat and talked together was the table (Shirkey, 2003). The web has transformed the way we communicate, learn, and work, and in the very near future, it will transform the way we manage organizations. Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis,
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