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Published: 16/10/2019

David Becker

David Becker
Award winning performance architect and instructional designer with over 20 years' experience in corporate EdTech. Expert in microlearning, design thinking for learning and data modelling performance.
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Induction Journeys

David Becker elearning, learning, LMS, MLS, performance, Rethinking Learning, training

Dissonance between content and experience

Perhaps you've experienced an induction that goes something like this:

  • Step 1: Watch a video welcoming you to the team, fill out some paperwork
  • Step 2: Do some (lots) of boring eLearning, meet some people,
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Your guide to deploying performance campaigns

David Becker elearning, learning, LMS, MLS, performance, Rethinking Learning, training

Performance campaigns are unlike other blended and digital learning approaches, because they don't set out to teach. Instead they set out to create the circumstances from which performance arises. As a result they draw on different design and

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Performance campaigns: The future of workplace learning

David Becker elearning, performance

We’ve shifted the dial completely!

The problem is philosophical

Much has been written about the effectiveness of digital and blended learning. I won’t speak to that issue broadly, but I’d like to share my observations from over 20 years in the

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Digital learning dish I prepared earlier

David Becker corporate learning, corporate learning programs, elearning, learning, learning analytics, learning courses, learning management, LMS, micro-credentialing, MLS, mobile learning, modern learning system, performance, training, xapi

Set and organise goals within a defined space

Set out a clear picture of what success looks like in story form using real stories from people the learner knows, trusts or has heard about. Alternatively, use case studies or a ‘day in the life of’.

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My recipe for world class digital elearning

David Becker corporate learning, corporate learning programs, elearning, learning, learning analytics, learning programs, LMS, LRS, micro-credentialing, MLS, mobile learning, modern learning system, performance, Rethinking Learning, training, xapi

World Class Digital Learning can be prepared and served effectively when given the right recipe!

Ingredients

For this recipe, you’re going to need the following:

- Evidence-based adult learning - Storytelling, gamification and behavioural
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Learning content as a torrid affair, not a bad marriage (Kill the LMS Part 4 of 5)

David Becker elearning, learning, LMS, MLS, performance, Rethinking Learning, training

In the previous article, I argued the case for user and algorithmically generated content and suggested that combining the two in a value chain could create a stream of fresh content able to keep up with the recommendations generated from an eCoach

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Kill the LMS Part 3 of 5: The LMS as generative, not prescriptive

David Becker elearning, learning, LMS, MLS, performance, Rethinking Learning, training

Image credit: Andrew Beeston

In the previous article, I made the argument for an eCoach blending adaptive and affective learning with psychometric analytics. I suggested this engine could meet our current and future learning needs at both a trait

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Kill the LMS Part 2 of 5: The LMS as coach, not manager

David Becker learning, LMS, MLS, performance, Rethinking Learning, training

In the last article, I criticised the LMS for being a gilded cage, locking people and content into a frictious, top down, narrow, reductionist and mostly rational experience. I asked how we might create a low friction flow of more natural learning,

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Kill the LMS Part 1 of 5: The LMS is dead. Long live the LMS

David Becker elearning, learning, LMS, MLS, performance, Rethinking Learning, training

Over this series of articles, I’ll examine the flaws in the learning management system and explore the ideas and technologies pointing the way to a superior approach. Then, in my final article, I’ll meld these ideas into a model and re-examine the

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