“She works on learning and technology
in a way that is creative, concrete and quirky”

Making Evidence-based Decisions

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Video: Profiles in Leadership: Making Evidence-based Decisions Click thumbnail to view video … [Continue reading]

Beyond Kirkpatrick

Allison Rossett

Recorded class session from San Diego State University. Click thumbnail to view video … [Continue reading]

“Get some coffee and get rid of your guns.”

active shooter training in Second Life

Guest blogger Jim Marshall could tell this wasn't going to be your typical training class-- not with that segue to a coffee break. Here's what Jim wrote about his experience observing a class with 22 sworn peace officers from municipal, state and … [Continue reading]

Investigating the Job Aid: Part I

Investigating the Job Aid

Not Just Child's Play: Part I. Click thumbnail to view video … [Continue reading]

Tell us about your evaluation practices and priorities, please

Metrics in the Learning Organization A few years ago, I and Dr. Jim Marshall from San Diego State University studied how people are using learning technologies. What we found surprised us, as it will you. In the midst of other less cheery … [Continue reading]

Investigating the Job Aid: Part II

Investigating the Job Aid: Part II

Not Just Child's Play: Part II. Click thumbnail to view video … [Continue reading]

Harold Stolovitch at ISPI-San Diego

Harold Stolovitch and Allison Rossett

We were thrilled to welcome Harold Stolovitch and Erica Keeps, plus some of their friends from Orange County and Quebec, to San Diego on February 16, 2012. Harold, who calls himself a technologist because he applies evidence-based knowledge to … [Continue reading]

If Coaching is Good, then E-Coaching is. . .

Coaching continues to be popular. Last week I visited a software company. They are putting coaches in place to help their sales people become productive swiftly. A few weeks before that it was a retail company. They know that store managers must, … [Continue reading]

Mobile for learning AND results

Do you want to send your salespeople to training to memorize product features and prices? Would you take a class to prepare to get the very most from your time during a short visit to Paris? Do you want your physician to rely on her memory to … [Continue reading]

Take the YinYang tool for a spin

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Today, the buzz is about informal learning. You hear it at conferences, on blogs, even on twitter. Are your programs informal? Are they as informal as you want them to be? Are you moving forward to bring informal learning to your organization? We … [Continue reading]