Design better blended learning by understanding affordances

Have you been asked to “blend” learning? In its rushed form, this process involves deciding which parts of an existing classroom course will fall into an “elearning bucket”, and which portions remain in the “classroom bucket”. It is a process, sometimes led by assumptions, that may yield a less-than-ideal split.…

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4 L&D Wishes for 2015

My wish list for corporate learning 2015. Just four, all of them L&D maturity indicators. 1. “Blended” fades No, we don’t stop blending. But we stopped talking about it because slowly but surely everything became more or less blended. At design time, all options are considered equally, without having to…

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The Death of ILT

Will instructor-led training (ILT) be completely eliminated from organization training programs? It’s a question that pops up often, both from learners and training staff. I find this question annoying. Not because I think it’s without merit – it is an important discussion in a time of change. But I tend…

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