by Jay Allen (ADL). Jay serves as the Instructional Design Team Lead for the ADL Initiative. Jay retired from the U.S. Coast Guard after flying helicopters for over 16 years and serving as the Coast Guard’s ADL Program Manager. He joined the ADL Initiative after three years as the Department of Homeland Security’s Enterprise LearningRead… Read more »
Last week, Ben Clark (Rustici Software) and I participated with a few hundred people on #lrnchat, a weekly, international online chat about learning as a profession and a practice. Every week a series of questions is asked around a different topic, and this last week we contributed to the topic of “learning technology standards.” TheRead… Read more »
by Jonathan Poltrack I’m really happy to announce that, as of today, our Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Technical Team is beginning a joint effort with the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC) that will update the CMI Data Model. This effort, along with Project Tin Can, furthers the Future Learning Experience Project. Many of you knowRead… Read more »
by Jonathan Poltrack I’m really happy to announce that, as of today, our Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Technical Team is beginning a joint effort with the Aviation Industry CBT Committee (AICC) that will update the CMI Data Model. This effort, along with Project Tin Can, furthers the Future Learning Experience Project. Many of you knowRead… Read more »
I want to remind those of you who might be interested of a couple of opportunities to engage with us directly. Today, members of ADL and Rustici Software will participate in a #lrnchat focused on learning technology standards. #lrnchat happens at 11:30am ET & 8:30pm ET every Thursday. #lrnchat is an online chat over theRead… Read more »
by Peter Berking (ADL) Peter has an M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley and has led Instructional Design efforts for over 15 years. Peter has designed and developed a wide range of training products ranging from technology-driven courseware and human performance design systems to instructor-led courses. He teaches classes in computer graphics at Northern VirginiaRead… Read more »
Today marks the first day of Advanced Distributed Learning’s (ADL’s) Future Learning Experience Project, a major new effort from ADL that returns our organization to its roots in Applied Research & Development in the learning technology space.For those unfamiliar with what ADL is, it is an initiative out of the Office of the Secretary ofRead… Read more »
“This is Service Design Thinking” by geschenkt I’ve been playing with this notion in my head over the last couple of weeks that while it’s clear that there are digital literacy skills needed, there seems to be little progress made on what those literacy skills look like. I spent the day at the Chicago Children’sRead… Read more »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillaradio/494169708/ Yesterday, like every Thursday was #lrnchat, a weekly public Twitter chat I help moderate that focuses on organizational learning. The topic was on “Tools of the Trade” and the group of 100 (more or less) professionals ran through a number of topical questions related to how we find out about, select and replace toolsRead… Read more »
Note: At the suggestion of Andrew Krzmarzick, I am crossposting from my personal blog. A thought stewed in the slow cooker of my brain for several weeks, which finally reduced to a tasty idea in the wake of the COINs 2010 conference: It is difficult to undo (Ctrl-Z). It is often easier to begin anewRead… Read more »