Contrived vs Real Experience

Educators and Entrepreneurs have so much in common it is down right scarry.  They each learn by doing.  


Teachers learn about their students by teaching them.


Entrepreneurs learn about the success of their products and services by the purchases made by the clients and customers.


The elephant in the room today is the fact that social media continues to be an important part of everyday life for learners and businesses.  


Today's show discusses 8 social media platforms recommended to businesses by Boyd Petersen of BP Media (bpmedia.com).  Boyd (@boydpete) shared these sites at Entrepreneurial Launch Pad in Kaysville Utah this afternoon (3/12/2015).


You'll want to listen to the show and get Boyd's white paper on the topic.


Enjoy!

Change is happening so quickly in companies and technologies today staying current becomes a challenge.  

Some of us work for companies that are not keeping up and thus our career may become obsolete while we are working hard and doing a good job.  So now what?

When the project ends it is time to reflect to resurrect the troubles of the moment in perspective.

Storytelling is one of the strategies making a return into the training areana.

Trends in Teaching and Learning

Doug Howard of Training Industry Magazine (Winter 2015) identified 10 trends effecting the training industry in 2015.

On this show we discuss the trends and how we are experiencing them with my peers in corporate training and business performance improvement initiatives, education and instructional design projects.

The trends as presented in the show:

1. Corporate Spend for Training is increasing

2. Use of Big Data and Analytics

3. Workforce Readiness and Specific Job Function Learning

4. Outsourcing Growing as Training Function Transforms

5. Formalization of Mentoring and Coaching

6. Storytelling and the use of real-world situations and scenerios

7. Gaming for Reinforcement and Scenerio Delivery

8. BIte-Size Learning Objects

9. Customer Education Converging with Marketing and Training

10. Job Market for Learning Professionalis is on the rise.

Enjoy this episode of trends to watch in 2015.  Do you see these trends in your teaching and learning experiences?  Watch for them.  You just may be surprised.

Best of success,

Teach Jim