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Adventures in inventing a game
This is a working out loud story about building a game for use in a workshop. It’s a long one, so grab a beverage and a snack before you dive in. I would not have guessed the turns this project [...]
The wherewithal for self-directed learning
The future belongs to those who learn. Never has that been more true. It's cliche to say the world is changing fast, but just look around. The coronavirus pandemic has forced rapid change in our work, in our day-to-day activities, [...]
Learning and development in a pandemic-scarred world
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” That classic Dickensian opening line perfectly summarizes the state of L&D in 2020. The pandemic has generated immediate learning needs and many L&D professionals have responded admirably using [...]
Curation as rapid response
In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ~ Eric Hoffer These are certainly times of change. The world before no longer exists, and [...]
Cultivating a learning culture
Among the many topics coming up in professional conversations these days is a desire to strengthen the learning culture in our organizations. We want to create an environment in which people freely and deeply learn, an environment that creates knowledge [...]
Are you the expert you need to be?
Do you ever stop to think just how much you need to know to be an effective learning professional? Like every other complex field (think: medicine, the law), it’s daunting to stay on top of a constantly shifting and expanding [...]