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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Infographics in Learning & Development

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Kathleen Iverson 23 comments

Information graphics or infographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge that convey ideas in a complete visual snapshot, like the one to the right that describes a survey of instructional designers. Infographics gained popularity in news media and became so enmeshed that a new field of study, data journalism, evolved. There are also many reasons to use infographics in learning environments.

Corporate Heros: Psychological capital and performance improvement

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Kathleen Iverson 18 comments

Just as organizations benefit from a healthy stash of financial capital, human performance is enhanced by reserves of psychological capital (PsyCap) that supply the strength and capability to carry on, even in tough times. A spin-off the positive psychology movement (see Positive Psychology: Shifting from what’s wrong to what’s right), PsyCap is defined as an individual’s strength, perceptions, attitudes toward

Training Superglue: Design elements that make learning stick

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Kathleen Iverson 68 comments

Are the following statements about learning true or false? The best way to learn from a textbook is to read it over and over. Learning material is retained if it is easy. Practicing a skill over and over leads to successful performance. Creativity is more important than knowledge. Testing is an ineffective learning tool. You might be surprised when you check

Content Curation: A mostly curated blog post

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Vince Cyboran 4 comments

Back in the day—and by that, I mean 2012—there were rumblings about “curation” or “content curation” within the T&D world. For example, David Kelly wrote a brilliant blog post about it for ATD (then, ASTD). Some T&D practitioners may have dismissed this topic as simply e-Knowledge Management (KM); that is, more stuff with better tools. After all, even backer

Trust, But Verify: Why Editing your own Work is a Must

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Kathleen Iverson 15 comments

By Vince Cyboran, Ed.D. Imagine that you are writing an article about T&D consulting contracts. As you work, the phrase “Trust, but verify” pops into your head. It is, after all, an apt quote. And, if you are like countless others who can remember events of the 1980’s, the phrase is vaguely familiar. But because you want to attribute this

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Training at the Movies Part 1: What can Patrick Swayze teach us about manners?

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Eric 8 comments

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

Are MOOCs Doomed to Fail?

Posted on February 23, 2015 by admintrain 10 comments

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

“Don’t Clap, Throw Money”: Misadventures in Employee Engagement

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Vince Cyboran 30 comments

Is your glass half empty or half full? Having been asked this seemingly innocuous — but heavily coded — question several times over the years at employee workshops, I’ve developed a standard response: “You have a glass?” This generally stops the conversation. At one organization in which upper management realized that low-employee morale was rampant (after three years without staff

The Virtual Trainer: From the classroom to the virtual world

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Kathleen Iverson 23 comments

At a recent networking event, I introduced myself to another student as a Virtual Instructor. “Now that’s what I want to do,” she smiled “train from home!” The biggest misconception about Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) is that we simply take classroom materials and put them in the online classroom. Think back to the last time Hollywood turned a TV

Beyond Corporate America: Non-traditional career paths for training and development graduates

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Kathleen Iverson 13 comments

Kathleen Iverson, Roosevelt University Training and Development Department Chair If you visit the RU Training job board, you’ll find many opportunities for instructional designers and e-learning specialists. In fact, instructional design was listed as No. 38 in 2012 in Money Magazine’s list of best jobs. Many MATD grads work for major organizations in Chicago and nationally including Allstate, Hewitt &

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