The Challenge to Human Minds During this COVID-19 crisis, the world as we knew it has undergone a sea change. A lot of things that we thought were not possible have now been made possible. Amidst the pandemic, the goal is to preserve businesses and the economy, to continue essential services, and increase social awareness and responsibility. All this comes at a cost of certain people's jobs, exposing them to health risks, and the mental challenges of dealing with isolation to protect both ourselves and other people. Some people want to believe this is equivalent to a war. The focus on productivity for academics and business takes a lower priority than caring about life as we knew it before the pandemic broke out. This is a sea change in the way we did things in the past. The urgency of the issue is exacerbated by the nature of how easily this virus spreads. This can do one of two things. Take the human race to the: Next level of consciousness and realization Depths of our w...
I've always wondered how instructional designers appear to work in silos while building training and cranking out several hours of courses. With the advent of xAPI and data science, we could consider a possibility of linking training 'outcomes' to customer success. New Implementation Case Study Let's take the case of a new product release or a new implementation for a large company like Oracle or Salesforce. The partners and consultants undergo training to either use the product in their day-to-day tasks, or to implement it for a customer. A 5-day training is organized and successfully completed. Now the consultants are ready to head back and actually implement the application. After this point, I've never had visibility into 'data' about the outcomes of the training. I've never known whether they were actually able to use the specific knowledge to successfully use an application including their ability to troubleshoot issues and design one-off cus...