I was at an electronics store recently looking at various tablets and wondering when I would take the plunge to make a purchase. While I was experimenting with one I turned on the front-facing camera and was a bit stunned at the image that came up on the screen. My head was tilted forward and …
The Social Media & Learning Daily
Each day about 3pm Eastern Time a new edition of my "Social Media & Learning Daily" comes out online at http://paper.li/jeffkross/smlearning. As is the case with all "papers" at http://paper.li, it's automatically generated from links in tweets of selected people I follow on Twitter and who I have listed on a social media and learning …
Trust
Themes can arise unexpectedly some days. Today the theme was "trust." I happened to come across three articles today on the subject in the course of my normal blog and Twitter perusing. The first was from Harvard Business Review - "The One Thing That Makes Collaboration Work." In the article, Larry Prusak writes "If I …
Evaluating Training – Will We Ever Do It Well?
I read an excellent article today by Paul Kearns called "All you need to know about training evaluation in about 700 words." I'll respond with about 800 words. The article resonated with me because I have spent most of my adult life in some role related to training or education. I've been in a million …
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It’s Tough Changing One’s Direction
After nearly six years, many thousands of hours of effort and tens of thousands of dollars, I have made the difficult decision to stop pursuit of my PhD degree. Since July of 2005 I have been in Capella University's PhD in Education program specializing in Instructional Design for Online Learning. I completed the courses and …
