Supporting Remote Employees
Every year I create a photo book for my family. I find digital photos stay digital, and we never see them, so a photobook gives us a way to remember the year. It is great fun pulling out the books from when the kids were babies! I finished the 2020 photobook on the...
What is curriculum design?
And how is it different than designing an individual course? My family put together two puzzles over the holidays. The first was a village in France and made me nostalgic about our family trip in 2017. The other puzzle was rows and rows of kittens. I noticed my son...
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL COMPLETING THIS ELEARNING?
My husband and I were talking one morning after the kids were off to school. He was telling me about this elearning course he wanted to finish that afternoon. By the time he was finished, I thought, "That’s the topic for my next newsletter!” First, let me say that my...
Combatting the Forgetting Curve
You’ve probably heard the adage that we have memories like a goldfish. Of course, this has been debunked, but the myth persists. I wonder if part of the persistence of the myth is grounded in the forgetting curve. In 1885 Hermann Ebbinghaus studied memory and found...
How do adult learning principles inform good instructional design?
Like many of us, my Saturdays growing up included a trip to the pool for swimming lessons. On one occasion, I remember being old enough to venture into the deep end. I was hugging the pool edge and looked back to the shallow end where my mother was learning to swim....
What makes a good online course? Part 3 of 3
Three components for online training: Technology, Design and Facilitation In July, I facilitated my program, Redesigning in-person for Online: Process, templates and Support. As part of the design, I created this model to summarize the components I believe are...
How do I redesign a small group activity for online?
You have a small group activity as part of your in-person program. Participants get into groups and discuss a topic and flip chart their answers. You ask each group to report back to the larger group and lead a discussion to identify themes and learnings. How do you...
What makes a good online course? Part 2 of 3
Three components for online training: Technology, Design and Facilitation I’ve been facilitating my program, Redesign in-person for Online: Process, templates and support. I created this model to summarize the components I believe are necessary for a quality program...
Facilitating Online – When Tech Fails
I'm facilitating my course on Redesigning in-person Programs for Online. In the middle of the session, my computer turned off – every facilitator’s nightmare! My Producer held things together as I got back online. I had some troubleshooting things in place but had...
From the trenches – Using technology when facilitating online
I’ve started facilitating my course, Redesign for Online: Processes, templates and support. Module 2: Technology Today’s module was about how to use technology in online training sessions to engage participants in the moment, and how to use technology between sessions...