As learning businesses, it’s critical that we know how to empower our learners in order to achieve long-term success. That’s because empowerment is at the core of a successful business model for all learning businesses. So how can we best empower learners? It starts by committing to understanding and applying what we know related to how people learn—essentially, … [Read more...]
Creating Leverage in the Learning Business
Leverage is essential to the success of a learning business. It's about helping learners get the maximum value out of their learning experiences and it's basically the key to maximizing reach, revenue, and impact. So creating leverage for ourselves – and much more importantly, our learners – is arguably one of the most powerful things a learning business can do now, or in the … [Read more...]
Rethinking a Dangerous Art Form with Dr. Will Thalheimer
Smile sheets (i.e., learner response forms, student reaction forms) are perhaps the most widely used tool in the learning industry for gathering feedback and attempting to assess the effectiveness of a learning event. The problem is, there is almost no correlation between smile sheets and learning results. The good news is that if we are thoughtful in the design our smile … [Read more...]
The Power of Reflection in Learning and Leading
Reflection is perhaps one of the most important practices we can engage in as learners but most of us aren’t taking the time to do it. It is also a key element that distinguishes the best learners and leaders—so why aren’t more of us doing it? In this special 25th episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele discuss the topic of reflection as it … [Read more...]
Stream of Conference #2 – Spaced Practice and AI
Stream of Conferenceâ„¢ is an informal video series designed to highlight key information and insights and spark discussion and reflection in connection with the Leading Learning Symposium. In this second installment, Tagoras managing director Jeff Cobb shares thoughts about spaced practice (also mentioned in the previous episode) and artificial intelligence that were prompted by … [Read more...]
5 Key Concepts from Make It Stick
Prior to the 2015 Leading Learning Symposium we launched a series of Stream of Conference™ (SoC) videos series, a collection of brief, informal videos that provided content related to the symposium. While we don't plan to publish those here going forward, I thought I would share the first one, partly because we are we're also used SoC to announce the first of our … [Read more...]
The Opportunity of Lifetime Enrollment
What if you enrolled in a graduate program and then never really graduated? Instead, after an initial immersive experience, you are able to access "mini-courses" and other resources as they actually apply throughout your career. As a result, you are able to move from “learn-learn-learn-certify-wait-wait-wait-deploy" - often not very effective as a way of transferring real … [Read more...]