tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52307391866264219022024-03-18T23:08:50.824-04:00Simon BlairSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-11980108204386562572020-10-19T15:49:00.003-04:002020-12-30T20:26:43.993-05:00Where to find meIt's going to be an exciting few months. I have a lot going on! Here's where you can find me:DevLearn Digital Experience (October 19-30)ATD Virtual Conference (October 26-30)ATD TechKnowledge 2021 (January 25-28)DevLearn Digital Experience (October 19-30)DevLearn is going to be a little different this year. With travel being out of the question for most of the world, it's going to Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-80574025840221443662020-08-22T08:43:00.000-04:002020-08-22T08:43:45.326-04:00Thinking About Career Pathing, or How to get There from HereStop me if you've heard this one before.An employee goes to their company's Learning & Development department looking for help setting up a career development plan. On the way in, they're excited because the company makes a big deal of the fact that they promote from within and that they invest in developing internal talent. A little while later, the employee shuffles back to their desk, Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-34754820895948143502020-07-14T17:31:00.002-04:002020-08-22T09:00:39.064-04:00Designing an Information Security CampaignFor the past few months, I've been kicking some compliance training ideas around in my head. Since my memory is less than perfect, and (more importantly) since these ideas help nobody while they're inside my head, I've taken some time to put them to paper (literally). Then I had to to spend a little more time deciphering my chicken scratch.In order to give them some coherence, I've organized themSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-82698644021564200002019-08-07T19:03:00.001-04:002019-08-07T19:03:41.582-04:00Canadian eLearning Conference 2019Last month, I attended the Canadian eLearning Conference in Toronto, Ontario. It's been on my watch list for several years (from back when it was the EACH Conference), but I was finally able to make it this year.
Conferences can be definitely expensive, between the registration, travel, accommodations, and meals. That said, I love going, and here's why:
Seeing old friends again:
My hermitageSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-36543465732681138402019-04-05T07:37:00.001-04:002020-08-22T11:34:46.146-04:00Let's Make Compliance Training More Efficient
Can We Do Something About Compliance Training?
Please!
I've been thinking about compliance training lately.
Thinking about how everybody loves it. About how much people look forward to it. About how people are constantly breaking down my door asking to take more of it. It's costing me an arm and a leg in hinges!
Speaking of costs, has anybody done the math on how much it costs Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-37500978375144327662018-02-06T12:09:00.000-05:002018-02-06T12:09:56.698-05:00An Idea for Measuring the Effectiveness of L&D
Is it just me, or is nobody talking about measuring the effectiveness of Learning & Development?
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of options for (and discussion about) evaluating attendance and completion (aka: butts in seats), reaction, learning, behaviour, results (Kirkpatrick's Levels 1-4), and even return on investment (or ROI, Phillips' Level 5).
That's all well and Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-37850170793413379402018-01-30T20:22:00.001-05:002020-08-22T12:41:20.613-04:00Roll the Bones in Storyline 360 - A Rolling Die Interaction
Ever since Articulate announced the random number feature for Storyline 360, I've been kicking around various ideas for using it - I'm sure many of you have as well.
I'm thinking my first project will be a board game. A key element of many (most?) board games is rolling dice, so I wanted to include an animation of the dice rolling.
Unfortunately, I'm no animator. I did some Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-77264781438216790882017-11-12T12:44:00.002-05:002017-11-12T12:44:58.825-05:00DevLearn 2017 Recap 1: Building an Adaptive Course in Storyline
It's been two weeks since DevLearn 2017, and I'm still collecting my thoughts.
To get things going, here's a recap of the session I facilitated, number 715 on the agenda: "BYOL: Building an Adaptive Course in Storyline".
The four objectives of the session were to learn how to:
customize course content based on pretest results
show remedial content only when needed
end the final testSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-90598697167658283182017-10-15T17:32:00.002-04:002017-11-11T09:41:11.271-05:00DevLearn, Here I Come!
Next week is DevLearn 2017, the eLearning Guild's biggest conference of the year, and I couldn't be more excited.
This is my first time attending DevLearn, and only my second time attending a conference. I attended Learning Solutions Conference (LSCon) in March 2016 and had a blast. So many sessions! So much to learn and bring back to my work. Also, I got to meet many people I've Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-73378264057666197262016-02-23T18:10:00.000-05:002017-03-08T14:55:22.433-05:00This Week in Training: Your Favorite Articles
Greetings friends and colleagues! Welcome to the inaugural edition of "This Week in Training" (or #TWIT).
The idea for "This Week in Training" (#TWIT) came about because there are so many great articles and blogs out there related to Training, Learning & Development, e-Learning and so on. So many, in fact, that I'm not finding them all.
I need your help! As they say "all of us are Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-77217914993857769512015-06-11T08:02:00.002-04:002020-08-22T13:09:50.573-04:00This Week in LearningHi everybody. I'm trying out something new today. I've picked some of my favourite posts and articles that I've read recently. I really think you should read them too. Trust me, you won't regret it.
Write a strong goal: Sell it to Scrooge by Cathy Moore.
What does a client really mean when they say "My team needs training"? Cathy provides a story to remind us what service we really Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-35381696331207748532015-04-12T20:46:00.000-04:002017-03-08T14:57:40.113-05:00Observations from a Hospital Waiting Room: The Abilene Paradox
I was at the hospital with my wife on Tuesday. I'm not telling you that for sympathy, though. I'm telling you that so I can tell you a story from our visit. You should know that my wife was at the hospital for day surgery. Trust me, it's a key plot point.
If you haven't had surgery, there's something you should know to fully appreciate this tale. Are you ready? Here it is: you're Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-68700299732448857952015-01-30T07:55:00.002-05:002017-03-08T14:59:12.497-05:00Making an Interactive Org Chart Using e-Learning Software
Org charts! Pretty boring, right? Just a bunch of names and titles laid out in a tree.
Let's see what we can do to spice things up a bit with some e-Learning software.
A (not so) recent challenge in the e-Learning Heroes community tasked participants "to design an interactive graphic to introduce an organization's team members or key players."
That's where we come in today. I'm going to Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-41299208643942637792015-01-23T16:00:00.000-05:002017-03-08T15:00:31.468-05:00Performance Support: Don't Memorize What You Don't Have To
Story Time
I’m going to tell you
a story – twice. More specifically, I’m going to tell you two different
versions of the same story. Afterwards I’ll ask you a few questions. Don’t
worry! You won’t be graded on them.
The Setting
My son contracted
Blastomycosis this past summer. He’s on medication for it, and probably will be for
another 9 months. I won’t bother you with the Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-91634537961745674762015-01-18T11:34:00.002-05:002020-08-22T13:06:49.466-04:00How to Write Better TestsPop quiz!
Multiple choice questions are:
A) Easy to write
B) Kind of a cliché
C) Often too easy to guess (eliminate the obvious and it comes down to a 50/50)
D) Not the best way to test mastery
We've all taken tests. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably even written some yourself. Why is it that so many test questions are so bad?
Who’s the test for anyway?
True or false? This typeSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-50865180848785626732013-09-17T08:32:00.001-04:002020-08-22T12:51:51.142-04:00Agile Learning, or How Half a Course is Better than 95% of One
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It’s quiet
time at the cottage (that’s a cabin for my American friends and colleagues).
Our youngest is in bed, pretending to sleep (he’s a sly one). The dogs are
curled up on the floor or stretched out on the couch. My wife is reading her
book (her eyes may or may not be open). I’m catching up on some of the blogs I
follow (courtesy of RSS – there’s no phone or internet here, but I Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04682268633307107424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230739186626421902.post-37086707467939484282013-03-17T22:45:00.001-04:002020-08-22T12:31:24.833-04:00The Difference Between Knowledge and Performance (Or What my Five-Year-Old Taught me About Workplace Performance)
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