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As 2018 comes to a close, I4PL would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of I4PL Weekly a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.
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Forbes
It’s the time of year for human resources professionals to look back on employee performance and begin planning their training needs for 2019. To any business, human capital is its greatest asset and the biggest key to achieving business goals. How can you better prepare your teams to perform in a highly competitive environment? Through training.
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eLearning Industry
What is the forgetting curve? In this installment of the online learning glossary, we look at one of the biggest challenges met in the training community.
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 What is your biggest achievement to date — personal or professional?
Apart from raising two intelligent successful daughters, one of my biggest achievements to date was to return to school at 48 years old to complete my MBA. It was both a personal and professional feat. Personal in that I had only graduated from grade 12, and in my profession people assumed I had a degree. Professional in that it helped me significantly in my business acumen and allowed us to move our business to Calgary. (I should also mention that my husband also did his MBA at the same time, while we renovated 2 houses and had two teenagers in high school.)
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Zsuzsa Jablonszky, Chapter Leader, Durham Chapter
Someone once asked me once how I ended up in the field of learning and performance. I had to think back to this ‘eclectic’ historic evolution, as it dates back a few decades. As I pondered the question, I found myself realizing that some of the choices I have made in my past were based on a combination of curiosity and the desire to explore or learn about thing I knew very little about. It started in my early school days when I remember being discouraged from trying out for the gymnastics team because I was too tall. Gymnasts were supposed to be 5’4”, from Romania, appear delicate with a cute child-like demeanor and with great sense of confidence. I was none of those. I have been 5’8” since I was 13 years old, broad shouldered, slim but strapping, with little to no confidence. “Take swimming,” they said. “Play basketball” “Go for the volleyball team”. Well I knew I was a good swimmer having earned a bronze medallion many years earlier. I didn’t care for basketball — it seemed too painful and aggressive. The volleyball team at the cottage earned me a position with a very competitive group. Gymnastics however seemed to offer all those things that I wanted to be: flexible, shorter, and more delicate; with a grace that seemed unattainable. So I opted for gymnastics. Following four years of 20-hour weeks in the gym with a Yugoslavian Olympic athlete-coach, our university varsity team turned out three Olympic athletes, none of whom were me. However, I did manage to make the team and compete at the Ontario level. I felt triumphant!
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Procept
As technology continues to evolve, we as project managers will find an ever growing array of tools at our disposal. Technology helps us to collect and analyse project data but the basic principals of project management have not changed. If you want to see a project through to success you need to get rid of uncertainty and mitigate risk. Here’s how!
Laura Sukorokoff, Chair of I4PL's Vancouver and Mainland BC Chapter
There is so much cool stuff going on out there. Every time we turn around, there’s some new gadget or way of thinking we could use in our work. But when it comes time to revise how or what we teach, we often struggle with the same thing our trainees struggle with — we don’t apply what we’ve learned.
If we refer to Bloom’s Taxonomy, we see that application refers to the ability to use what we’ve learned in new and concrete situations. This requires us not just to know and understand what we’ve learned, but to use it.
And that’s where things get tough. It’s tough because people don’t do what they know, they do what they’ve always done. L and D professionals included. That creates a problem. Our clients and trainees are looking to us to not just present information, but to be Learning Leaders.
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Company: Micro Learning Bursts
What do you do?
Program Development, Instructional Design, Interactive Media, Marketing.
What do you like most about your current role?
As the owner of Micro Learning Bursts, I get to work with some pretty amazing people. I live in Kelowna, BC, but I continue to work in Alberta and other locations with client and contractor teams. Being an Instructional Designer is a flexible profession for work location, especially with so many technology options to connect with colleagues. I also love that my work varies as much as my clients do. I have created technology-driven educational tools for global organizations with hundreds of thousands of learners and, more recently, I wrote and directed video clips for CoastSmart (a public safety campaign in Tofino and Ucluelet, BC) while living on the beach. My work gives me the opportunity to travel to some really unique places on Earth while creating awesome educational programs. As the Tofino surfers would say "I'm STOKED" about my work!
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Learning Solutions Magazine
Information graphics, or infographics, include a wide-ranging category of visuals intended to present data and information in an accessible format. Quantitative infographics represent measurable data in formats like data visualizations, graphs, charts, statistical maps and numeric tables. When successful, these infographics serve as cognitive aids to enhance understanding, assist in problem solving, and support decision making. Effective visual design is a key consideration in creating data visualizations or infographics for e-learning.
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The I4PL Research Committee was born with the goal of cultivating a learning environment that addresses specific member needs and moves the performance, learning and development industry forward by:
• Creating new knowledge, information exchange, and skill development;
• Linking scholarship, research, and practice;
• Fostering professional development opportunities;
• Promoting a network that serves to empower and connect our members with each other, and;
• Providing resources in their chapters and communities.
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 I4PL member, Kahlia Castelle, is conducting a research study to explore workplace learning and development professionals’ perception of the value of game-based learning for training and talent development purposes. You will have the opportunity to share your opinions, insights and experiences as a workplace learning professional. You will also have the opportunity to win a $25 Visa card! To participate, please read the attached informed consent document and click here to take the survey.
If you have questions about your role in the study, please contact:
 Company: Learning Pirate
What is your biggest achievement to date — personal or professional?
I took on my biggest professional challenge when I quit my role as Learning Director to study Neuroscience and how the brain learns in order to bring the way we learn, design and deliver to a much needed next level of learning. Starting with two of the most difficult institutions, having no prior knowledge, was one of the hardest learning challenges I've had to date.
It also proved to be my biggest achievement, as the knowledge of how the brain learns, is invaluable to the work we do as L&D professionals.
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