What is Context-specific Creativity? We are all creative, however, our creativity is contextual. It exists within a specific context and disappears outside it. Thus, The Definition of Context-specific Creativity Context-specific Creativity is the ability to arrive at a solution to…
How to Design Effective Training Games?
Designing Training Games – The Challenges and the Rewards (Train-the-Trainer Series) Every good trainer knows that a single good training game can salvage the most boring of training programs. However, what irks a trainer most is that it’s next…
The IDEAL: Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner reviewed the existing definition of intelligence and broadened it to explain intelligence as “a set of abilities” used to resolve problems within a given cultural context. Thus, he moved away from…
Wondering whether you should become an instructional designer?
I know that there’s a strong echo of the term “instructional design” in the job market. I also know that you’ve heard this term from a friend of a relative of yours, and you feel that you have it in…
Creative Agni’s Instructional Design Courses – Views of the Participants.
The first sessions of Creative Agni’s Instructional Design Courses (The IDST Course and the IDCD Course) have ended and the course participants have sent in their views on the courses. You can read these views on the Creative Agni Participants’…
The IDEAL: Bloom’s Taxonomy for Cognitive Domain Learning
The Six Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom’s Taxonomy classifies cognitive learning into six ascending levels. Level 1: Knowledge Level 2: Comprehension Level 3: Application Level 4: Analysis Level 5: Synthesis Level 6: Evaluation As the levels move up, the mental…
A Preference for Indifference – A Short Story
His bed was set against the window. The caretaker had laughed when he said that he liked to look outside his window the first thing in the morning. “You don’t know what’s outside that window or you won’t be…
Froth Demonstrates Anger Management in a Training Program
Trainings that promise to help people give up their bad habits aren’t all that easy on the trainer, as Froth discovers during and Anger Management training program. What’s your take?
Aleatoric Creativity and Instructional Design
According to the Webster’s dictionary that sits on my desk, Aleatoric means, “characterized by chance of indeterminate elements.” Aleatoric Creativity: Aleatoric creativity thus, must mean something that’s the complete antithesis of the kind of creativity required for instructional design, which…