Face to face trainers often see technology as threat or replacement of the face to face experience. But when used appropriately technology can enhance what happens in the training room (and afterwards). At the eLearning Network event “A fresh look at elearning”, Julie Wedgwood demonstrated five tools which have great potential and they’re free! These tools are especially applicable when participants have access to tablet computers or smartphones. read more…
Last week I attended #SLCONF , a conference on social learning. Social learning is a zeitgeisty term which is very much in the early stages of the Gartner hype cycle for most organisations. I participated to find out more about what social learning is and what L&D practitioners should be doing about it/ with it. read more…
As an L&D professional working in one of the UK’s leading accountancy or legal firms, do you wonder how other firms are taking advantage of mobile and social technologies in L&D? Why not find out by meeting your peers? read more…
For months I’ve been immersed in the zone where marketing and learning overlap – helping marketers become as confident and astute with digital media as they are with traditional media. Although Marketing and L&D departments tend to attract different types of people, in essence both roles involve communicating in a way that is designed to change people’s behaviour. And where two fields of expertise overlap there’s learning to be had… here’s 5 points to start with read more…
Interested in e-learning in a wider context than professional services? That feels like a large part of the venn diagram to me…
Take a look at the eLearning Network’s splendid new blog eLN insights. You also find that I’ve found a way to apply something from school Latin lesssons to real life – What can e-learning take from classical mythology?
Hope that Christmas and the festive season treats you excellently. Here’s a small gift of knowledge that I’ve been pleased to share, via the e-learning industry’s advent calendar, 24 tips:
http://24tips.elearningnetwork.org/2010/12/posing-question/
May your distractors find whole new levels of plausibility in 2011!
Possibly a sign of an industry’s maturity is when it has its very own advent calendar. The eLearning Network has sponsored this fab resource where each day you will get a gift of tips from some of the industry’s leading thinkers. Happy festivities @ http://24tips.elearningnetwork.org/
I was recently interviewed by AccountancyAge about my views on Continuing Professional Development. Here’s the resultant article. Leave me a comment if you want to continue the debate.
The “Ig Nobel Prize” was recently awarded to a research group who produced a simulation that showed that “If the Peter Principle is right, we should randomly promote people”. To recap, the Peter Principle states that people rise through organisations through roles for which they are competent to a role for which they are incompetent (and that’s where they stop). Apart from being an opportunity to nostalge about people you’ve worked with who conform to the principle, there is a serious point in the research somewhere… read more…
In September’s TJ, Rob Ashton of Emphasis gives his tips on how to write training materials more punchily. Whilst I enjoyed most of Rob’s messages, there was one piece of extraordinarily bad science that stood out: “According to a report by the William Glasser Institute, we only remember 20% of what we hear and just 10% of what we read. In contrast, we remember 80% of what we have experienced personally and 70% of what we discuss with others”. I have two problems with this. read more…