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ASAE has named NIGP: The Institute for Public Procurement a recipient of a 2026 Power of Associations Gold Award. The recognized program is titled “The Public Procurement Profession Redesigned: Competencies, Credentials, and Real-World Practice” and, as it happens, Todd Slater — then Chief Content Officer at NIGP, now Chief Learning Officer — and Diane Elkins, …
If all learning is social, then it seems clear that those of us in the business of lifelong learning, professional development, and continuing education need to understand social learning – and understand what is involved in designing social learning – if we’re to succeed in our business. If, as Jeff and I wrote in the …
A poet and a lifelong learner, I attended a two-day workshop in May where poet-teachers Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar introduced me to Tony Hoagland’s five powers of poetry. Hoagland classifies implication as poetry’s fifth power: A good writer does not say everything. When Jane Hirschfield says, “It is foolish / to let a young …
To paraphrase Malcolm Knowles—the father of andragogy—adults learn best when the following conditions are met: Why they need to learn something is obvious. What they will learn is immediately relevant to them. How to apply the learning to specific tasks or problems is clear. More recently, brain science, like what John Medina highlights in Brain …
Assessment is critical for learning. We know that formative evaluation helps learners consolidate knowledge as they’re taking it in, and summative evaluation gives instructors, learners, and other interested parties (associations, accrediting bodies, employers, etc.) a stick by which to measure mastery of concepts. But how do you write assessments effectively–or make sure those tasked with …
The above video is rough and ready Flip camera footage from my 15 minute session on instructional design at the recent PCMA annual conference. This was part of the Learning Lounge put together by the folks over at Velvet Chainsaw, who did an excellent job. You can grab the slides that go with this on SlideShare (full …
One of the data points from our Association E-learning: State of the Sector report earlier this year, is that the use of professional instructional design association online courses is relatively low. More recently, I had a conversation with a client who wanted to “Call 911” after an estimate received from a vendor for creating online …
