Joanne Scouler is a Curriculum Architect at IBM where she does the business planning and course development for systems engineering tools. She has been involved in e-Learning and instructor-led training in many different capacities for the past twenty years. Prior to IBM Joanne worked at companies including Telelogic, Addison-Wesley, 3Com Corporation, Symantec, and Hewlett-Packard.

 

Articles by Joanne Scouler

Informalize Formal Learning: Smarter, Closer, Simpler, and More Appealing

(4/11/11)
The relationship between technology and the ways we learn and work is changing. As designers, we have the opportunity to take advantage of this through informal learning and gain many benefits. Here are some points to consider.

Needs Assessment on a Rapid Development Schedule

(7/23/07)
Designers are under a lot of pressure to skip the needs assessment. It’s a bad idea, and in this column you will gain some great reasons not to leave out this key step.