With a younger generation entering the workforce, expectations for workplace training programs are rapidly changing. According to Gallup, 87% of millennials said career development is important when considering a potential job.
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Career Inquiry – 2018 Development Plan
During this time of year performance reviews are conducted at my workplace and career discussions are taking place. To prepare for my discussion with my manager and come up with a development plan for this year…
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Increasing Workplace Motivation Through Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
When I’m developing new training programs I typically try to think about the motivations of learners that will be taking the content I create.
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Connecting Classroom and Workplace Learning
This article discussed the transition of medical professionals from being a student to entering the workforce.
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Supporting Professional Learning in a MOOC
In this study, Milligan and Littlejohn explained that massive open online courses (MOOCs) present a potentially useful means for supporting and enabling professional learning; however, there has been a limited understanding of their actual effectiveness.
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Resource Scan: From Flash to HTML5
Adobe Flash is still used in much of the content we create at my workplace and this is starting to become problematic since its demise is rapidly approaching.
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Broadband Internet Access & eLearning Design
I feel that growing up in a low-income household always caused me to struggle in school more than other kids. I did not have access to the internet or a computer and this was at a time when my teachers were already requiring research papers to be typed up.
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Condition 8: Leadership
Ely’s description of leadership in his eighth facilitative condition could also be defined as transformational leadership.
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Condition 7: Commitment
This simple brainteaser speaks to Ely’s (1999) seventh facilitative condition—commitment (p. 5).
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Condition 3: Availability of Resources
The third facilitative condition, summarized as “I have everything I need to make it work,” requires that resources are available to acquire learning objectives (Ellsworth, 2000).
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