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Enhancing Professional Learning Through Video Game Roleplay

04MayJuly 8, 2019 By Robert Grotans

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.

Connecting Classroom and Workplace Learning

08Feb By Robert Grotans

This article discussed the transition of medical professionals from being a student to entering the workforce.

Supporting Professional Learning in a MOOC

30JanJanuary 30, 2018 By Robert Grotans

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.

Resource Scan: From Flash to HTML5

23JanJanuary 28, 2018 By Robert Grotans

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.

Broadband Internet Access & eLearning Design

25OctNovember 3, 2017 By Robert Grotans

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.

Condition 8: Leadership

14SepNovember 3, 2017 By Catherine Wilson

Ely’s description of leadership in his eighth facilitative condition could also be defined as transformational leadership.

Condition 7: Commitment

14SepOctober 29, 2017 By Catherine Wilson

This simple brainteaser speaks to Ely’s (1999) seventh facilitative condition—commitment (p. 5).

Condition 3: Availability of Resources

12SepOctober 29, 2017 By Maria Pakulova

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).

Condition 2: Knowledge and Skills Exist

12SepOctober 29, 2017 By Maria Pakulova

The second facilitative condition, summarized as “I can do this” or “I can learn quickly” (Ellsworth, 2000) states that people who will ultimately implement any innovation must possess sufficient knowledge and skills to do the job (Rogers, 1995).

Condition 1: Dissatisfaction with the status quo

12SepOctober 29, 2017 By Maria Pakulova

The first facilitative condition described as a “belief on the part of the end user that things could be better or that others seem to be moving ahead while we are standing still” (Ely, 1999), is the cornerstone of a change journey.