Dear Reader, Welcome to Workplace Karma! This is a scratchpad of my learnings, non-learnings, and un-learnings as a learning industry practitioner. My interests lie in learning design, engagement, platforms & tech, and analytics. I hope some of my posts will be of use to you.
As some of you know, I work for a vaccines manufacturing organization. Our primary training content is scientific in nature; however, topics like vaccine hesitancy and public healthcare approaches to vaccination are also extremely important. And, while these topics can be trained using classroom/ virtual lectures with an SME, they […]
I am fascinated with ongoing use of and findings in social media. What an amazing cross-discipline of content, technology, design, psychology, and marketing. As a Learning Consultant, I find incredibly helpful tips from social media that I can apply to my training projects. For example, there are so many tips […]
Oftentimes, we are called in to consult for clients who show us their current training program with a request to improve it. When we ask them why they’d like to improve it, the most common response is that the program failed to fly, that Learners did not complete all their assignments, that […]
Welcome back, dear Reader! In Part 1 of this post, we reviewed some of the benefits of using Reflection as a learning tool based on the theories of Dewey, Kolb, Schon, Boud, Gibbs, Pedler, to name a few. The first benefit of reflection is to institute a pause in learning. […]
As part of a learning academy at my workplace, we provide more than 35 hours of mandatory training to a group of approx. 100 nominated learners over a time period of 10 months. That’s a lot of training on a complex topic (the science and business of vaccinology and vaccine […]
I am currently enrolled in a course on qualitative research and learning so much from it. Or, to be more correct, ‘unlearning’ so much from it. The course is quite academic and planted in western philosophic concepts like ontology, phenomenology, epistemology, pragmatism, etc. Simple recap: Ontology helps us categorize things […]
Title 21 CFR Part 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations deals with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines on electronic records and electronic signatures in the United States. 21 CFR Part 11, as it is commonly called, defines the criteria under which electronic records and electronic signatures are […]
Do you find it beneficial to use personas during your training requirements research? Have you used personas to conduct audience interviews, or to present findings and solutions to management? Personally, I find personas to be one step too many in the research process; an application of story-telling where it is […]
Micro-learning isn’t a new concept in the training industry any longer; it has proven its benefit to Learners and management alike, and is here to stay. In fact, many of the new tools and technologies being developed for the training industry are now done so with a focus on micro-learning. […]
