TiER1 Performance Solutions announced today that they received a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (ARFL). The Phase I contract, called Competency-based Adaptive Training System (CATS), will develop a system to derive a learner’s competence from many sources such as assessments, high-end simulations, and peer review. Through their Performance1 technology platform, TiER1 will build out a Competency Management System (CMS), which manages various domain-specific competency models and learner proficiency ratings. At the core of the CATS...

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From the mid-1970's through the end of the century, corporate America sunk a bundle into Left-brain vs. Right-brain training.  And, there's still a trickle of this sort of stuff around.  "Training for a Right-brain Workplace."  "Are you a left-brain or right-brain thinker?"  "Conflict Resolution:  Understanding Left-brained people in a Right-brained World."  "Maximize your Right-brain Potential." How about "Never mind!!!!" (Roseanne Rosannadanna)? At each of two seminars (different months, different neuroscientists, three thousand miles apart) the Brain & Behavior Blogger listened...

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G      C               D7            G Here comes the hurt again, you'd think I'd learn  A7                                          D7 The more that I believe in love, the more I get burned G           C      D7             G I'm lying right here again, so close to the flame G       C              D7            G Here comes the hurt again, but I'm used to the pain                 ~~From an old Mickey Gilley song In addition to every other...

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The selection of TiER1 by Williams Energy increases TiER1’s experience in the Energy industry, one of our most rapidly growing verticals.

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If you work for a learning company for a while, you start to see that a lot of what we do is repeatable. That’s not to say that every client is the same or that every solution can be just pulled out of a drawer. There is a need for custom solutions to learning problems. But – good design is good design, and I often find myself going back to the same drawing board over and over again. We all do. And it seems that it would save everyone a lot of time and energy to recognize this fact and use it to our and our clients’ advantage. To this end, a group of our consultants started working last...

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