Here’s a fun way to get students interested in anthropology. Earlier this year, Alberto Gomes of Melbourne’s La Trobe University (who, as coincidence would have it, also came here to Max Planck to give a lecture last year)
embedded a flashmob of Bollywood-style dancers in his introductory
anthropology lecture. It’s worth watching to the end, when the entire
lecture hall gets up to perform the dance moves.
Showing posts with label Training. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Training. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Top 10 Providers Of Free Online Training
From e-Learning
- How to Create a Cartoon in After Effects: Excellent and detailed tutorial showing how you can create funny and semi-complex cartoons using Adobe After Effects.
- CBTcafe.com: Some great free training demonstrations. They also resell inexpensive e-Learning tutorials.
- GCF Learn Free Organization: GCFLearnFree.org® is supported by the Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc.
- Free Microsoft Office Online Training Courses (by Microsoft): Courses developed and offered by Microsoft.
- Small Business Association (government): SBA is dedicated to helping you and your small business succeed. There are a variety of online trainings which cover many business topics for you to learn.
- Free Online Conversvation Training: Learn more about this facinating subject. This conservation training is an online course system focused on conservation-based training, created and maintained by the Nature Conservancy in partnership with other conservation organizations.
- Lynda: A popular provider of e-Learning covering a wide range of areas
- Free OSHA Training: OSHAcademy online safety and health training is endorsed by theNational Safety Management Society and approved for the accredited Associate Safety Health Manager (ASHM) certification through the Institute for Safety and Health Management. We provide free online safety courses and low cost certificate programs. We also conduct training throughout the world by independent Authorized Trainers.
- Free Training Power: TrainingPower is committed to connecting individuals and companies to valuable free resources, getting them started with long-term training initiatives. TrainingPower has added valuable usability and effectiveness functions to free government-published content and is offering a selection of free courses to workers, trainers and employers on its FreeTrainingPower.com web site.
- Online First-Aid Training: Everyone who loves someone should know first-aid. Do you and your fellow employees need or want first-aid training? Try this great free resource.
- Free Online Safety Training: Offering a wide range of free and fee-based online Safety courses.
- eLearning Center
Why People Hate Training
Why People Hate Training By Denise D. Ryan
Commentary: Well, do people really hate training? I don't know. I suspect the author is tilting at straw men to mix metaphors, but, this article contains some useful hints about how to get better results from seminars.Most employees view training as medicine or worse, as punishment. As an outside trainer, I work with hundreds of groups in a wide variety of industries and most people enter the training room as if they are going to the gas chamber. They might not expect death, but clearly some horrible form of torture. There are exceptions to this rule, but they are few and far between. Why is this and what can we do about it?
Evaluating Cognitive Training Outcomes: Validity and Utility of Structural Knowledge Assessment
By Journal of Business and Psychology, Volume 18, Number 2 - Conventional approaches to evaluating cognitive outcomes of training typically use paper-and-pencil tests that emphasize gains or differences in declarative knowledge. Yet a key factor in differentiating expert and novice performance is the way individuals organize their knowledge. Accordingly, the acquisition of meaningful knowledge structures and methods of assessing structural knowledge are potentially important issues for designing and evaluating training programs. Two studies were conducted to examine the validity and utility of one structural assessment technique called Pathfinder (Schvaneveldt, Durso, & Dearholt, 1989). Results from academic and organizational samples indicated that Pathfinder measures of structural knowledge quality predicted individual differences in performance self-efficacy. After controlling for differences in declarative knowledge, measures of structural knowledge quality added to the prediction of performance self-efficacy in the student sample, but not in the organizational sample. The unique features and potential advantages of structural assessment for training evaluation are discussed.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
What Does “CEO Commitment” to Leadership Development Really Mean?
Another Post From Dan McCarthy
From: Great Leadership
Subject: CEO commitment to leadership development.
You've recently learned that the biggest differentiator of companies that excel in succession planning and senior leadership development ("talent management" is the latest buzzword) is the commitment and ownership of the CEO or top executive.
I heard you candidly say recently: "OK, I'm committed all right, I'm just not sure what to do".
The good news, there IS something you can do. Lot's of things. The bad news is you could waste a lot time and money on low impact things. As you know, activity does not always produce results.
What Does “CEO Commitment” to Leadership Development Really Mean?
Another Post From Dan McCarthy
From: Great Leadership
Subject: CEO commitment to leadership development.
You've recently learned that the biggest differentiator of companies that excel in succession planning and senior leadership development ("talent management" is the latest buzzword) is the commitment and ownership of the CEO or top executive.
I heard you candidly say recently: "OK, I'm committed all right, I'm just not sure what to do".
The good news, there IS something you can do. Lot's of things. The bad news is you could waste a lot time and money on low impact things. As you know, activity does not always produce results.
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