Let me take a moment…or rather, Eight Moments of Learning Need
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson I can imagine the conversation that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Conrad Gottfredson...
View ArticleAgile: An incredibly freeing way to work
At a recent conference session on using Agile project methods for elearning (what we call LLAMA), an interesting question came up. I’ll paraphrase. “Doesn’t the project team think this is just...
View ArticleWhy do we teach Agile to elearning developers?
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.” This is the preamble to the Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org) and it’s one of the most important...
View ArticleHow We Use Lean Coffee for Rich Results
“Lean Coffee is a discussion facilitation technique that helps a small group agree on topics and a structure for a discussion that otherwise has no specific agenda.” As a team of project managers,...
View ArticlePay it forward. Be a mentor.
It’s about time. Are you ready? The world needs you to be a mentor. Megan’s recent blog post on DBusiness Daily News: It’s Time for You to be The Mentor has gotten more than a bit of traction. We think...
View ArticleADDIE or Agile? A false dichotomy
There’s a lot of buzz these days about whether we should abandon the training industry’s go-to model, ADDIE, for an Agile approach. The discussion has been rich, with elegant arguments made on both...
View ArticleNamaste, Friends. Find your Office Zen.
Does your work stress you out? We’ve all experienced the squeeze of work-related stress from time to time, but too much stress at the office too often can make a huge dent in your quality of life and...
View ArticleTorranceLearning Announces Eleventure Business Skills Course Library
We are completely geeked to announce our new Eleventure elearning library, a business skills curriculum designed for and hosted on the LearnCore LMS platform. The first 30 courses in the series cover a...
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LLAMAs here, LLAMAs there…LLAMAs at Work
LLAMA is everywhere! And now you can learn our Lot Like Agile Management approach in the November issue of TD at Work. The Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly known as ASTD) publishes...
View ArticleLive Fearlessly
One of the biggest cultural shifts that new team members at TorranceLearning face isn’t our casual-every-day dress code or the lack of enclosed offices. It’s not the open book finance or the daily sync...
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An Agile Year in Review
2014 was a big year for us in our Agile journey. No, we’re not any better at yoga, despite having a yogi in residence. No, 2014 was a big year for us because really set ourselves to sharing what we’ve...
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Which came first: Agile or Culture?
We get asked the proverbial chicken and egg question a lot: which came first our LLAMA (Lot Like Agile Management Approach) project management or our communicative, accommodating culture? Agile is...
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xAPI: The Stroke Ready App
We recently hosted a group of about 30 clients, friends, and colleagues at an xAPI party (because nothing says “celebration” like verb definitions and data filtering). As the day drew to a close, many...
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The Waste of Motion
Before there was LLAMA (lot like Agile management approach), there was Agile. And before there was Agile, there was Lean. Each approach owes some of its principles to the one before. (Hmm. Sounds...
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xAPI Community
I just returned from ATD’s TechKnowledge 2016, where I learned all sorts of groovy stuff: cool tricks for Adobe Connect, the value of microvideo, best practices for MOOCs. However, as is often the...
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Life and Learning in a Post-SCORM World
As learning professionals, we’ve lived in a SCORM world for a least the past decade; SCORM being the set of standards for sharing and tracking learning content. But the world has started to evolve,...
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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture
.fusion-fullwidth-1 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; } Guest Post by Stephen Gill This blog originally posted on Learning To Be Great. What’s the difference between a...
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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart
Megan Torrance, CEO TorranceLearning This article was also posted in Education & Career News According to the Association for Talent Development’s 2015 State of the Industry Report 39% of all...
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Guest post: Informal Learning and the Pivot Point
.fusion-fullwidth-1 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; } Guest Post by Stephen Gill This blog originally posted on The Performance Improvement Blog. As David Grebow explained...
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Catch up with Megan at TechKnowledge
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