Comments on: Logs, lectures, and learning

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By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:14:20 +0000

Ellen, when I worked on a huge client project to train 2,500 salespeople, one of the goals was to train them in standard office software (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.).

My mantra was, “They’re applications. Apply them.” That means not wasting the learner’s time with useless field trips (this is the name field, this is the address field, this is the phone number field). Instead we aimed to have people do things that looked like useful work to them–with the software.

By: ellen wagner

ellen wagner — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:56:49 +0000

let us not forget that we are talking about “killer APPS”, which means APPLICATIONS. Comes from the word “apply”, which infers that we don’t care as much about the tool – or an idea, or the facts or a new skill – but how that tool/idea/fact/skill tool is used in practice. Those that change the way we get things done are killer.

If you stop and think about it, lectures themselves were a killer app, in their day – they extended the sitting on the log model of mentor and student to (point to point) to teacher and students (point to multipoint).

thanks for raising the question