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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Oct 192011

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Proposing and Implementing Recommendations

By Joel Gendelman

In my last several blogs, I began describing how organizations can better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs by aligning their business needs with their instructional assets. This final step of the process is “Proposing and Implementing Recommendations”. Following are the activities that are typically performed during this step.

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Tags: business alignment, Curriculum design, content development, recycling learning objects, instructional assets. analysis, instructional design, task analysis, audience analysis, curriculum analysis, business alignment

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Sep 132011

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Analyzing Your Curricula

By Joel Gendelman

In my last two blogs, I began describing how organizations can better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs by alining their business needs with their instructional assets. The second step of this six step process is Analyzing your Curricula. Following are the activities that are typically performed during this step.

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Tags: business alignment, Curriculum design, content development, recycling learning objects, instructional assets. analysis, instructional design, task analysis, audience analysis

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Aug 242011

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Documenting Your Business Needs

By Joel Gendelman

In my last blog, I began describing how organizations can better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs by alining their business needs with their instructional assets. The first of the six steps of this process in Documenting your Business Needs. Following are the activities that are typically performed during this step.

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Tags: business alignment, content development, recycling learning objects, instructional assets. analysis, instructional design, task analysis, audience analysis

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Aug 012011

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Aligning Business Needs with Training Assets

By Joel Gendelman

High-performing training organizations are focused on the alignment of their instructional curricula with the needs of the business. However, the content development field lacks a systematic methodology for performing that alignment. Such a method can provide organizations with a powerful tool to better support current business initiatives, increase organizational responsiveness, and reduce curriculum acquisition and development costs.

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Tags: business alignment, content development, recycling learning objects, instructional assets. analysis, instructional design

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Jul 182011

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Saying it Doesn’t Do Diddly

By Joel Gendelman

Those of us who have children know that saying it doesn’t do diddly and saying it twice doesn’t do a heck of a lot more. People need simple rules and a few good examples.

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Tags: content development, instructional design, rules, examples, mnemonics, positive examples, negative examples, KISS

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Jul 072011

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Where Did we Lose it?

By Joel Gendelman

School is out and many of us are seeing a lot more of our children. Hopefully, we will take this opportunity to notice how they have grown in magical ways.

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Tags: grades, relevant learning, opportunity to practice, learning on our own terms, supportive learning environments, group competition

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Jun 272011

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More Content is not the Answer

By Joel Gendelman

It's not our job to ensure that employees are provided with challenging work, in a pleasant setting, and are paid a fair wage. Our job is to provide them with the skills they need to do their jobs and let management worry about the rest.

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Tags: Content development, training, work environment, management turnover

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Jun 202011

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Ten Ways to Ensure Failure in Working with Outside Resources

By Joel Gendelman

Outside resources can increase the scope and flexibility of internal training departments. They can provide knowledge of a particular subject matter (e.g.,Leadership and Management Development) or additional horsepower during a "crunch" period. However, using outside content development resources is not without its share of problems. Here are the five most common ways training departments fail in working with outside content development resources. I sincerely hope that none of you make these mistakes, but if you do, be assured that you stand in good company.

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Tags: Content development, Web 2.0, immersive instruction, mobile learning, second life, project management

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:Jun 132011

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Talking Ain’t Teaching

By Joel Gendelman

The objective of training is not to tell anyone anything. It is for them to do something. Those of us who have children know too well that telling people to do something doesn’t guarantee that they will do it.

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Tags: Instructional Design, Content Development, Performance Technology, Subject Matter Experts

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Joel Gendelman

Posted on:May 252011

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Who Cares about Content Development

By Joel Gendelman

All too often organizations believe that having a technical writer jot down a few notes or asking a product manager to create a PowerPoint presentations is what content development is all about.

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Tags: Instructional Design, Content Development, Performance Technology

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