March, 2007

Clive on Learning

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Case studies galore

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Laura Overton, who has been working with e-skills UK , the sector skills council for IT professionals and IT users, but who is not yet a blogger (come on Laura), put me on to this excellent resource of UK e-learning case studies. I counted 66 in total and no, I haven't read them all (actually I haven't read any yet, but they will definitely become part of my knowledge network).

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Keeping fit

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I've been tagged by Don Taylor to share with you some inside knowledge of my keep fit regime. Personally, I just think Don's a nosey so-and-so - what's next, revelations about activities between the sheets? Anyway, I shall be a good sport (if you'll excuse the pun) and let you a little further into my life. Working from home I have few obstacles to keeping fit.

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Made to stick

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On a recommendation from Donald Clark , I have been reading Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Made to Stick (Random House, 2007), and an excellent read it was too. The authors have pooled their experience and their collective wisdom (Chip is a Professor at Standford, Dan a consultant at Duke Corporate Education), to try and figure out what it is that links "sticky ideas of all kinds, from urban legends to corporate mission statements to advertisements to proverbs".

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Boys and their toys

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I have used my desire to try out Widows Vista as an excuse to buy the most turbo-charged new PC I could lay my hands on; that's quad core, 4GB RAM, 2 x 250GB drives, 23" widescreen monitor, you name it. I decided to run it in parallel with my old PC for as long as it took to become stable with Vista, i.e. all hardware and software running. Well, in one day, I'm 95% there.

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Executive slogan writers are our most patronising assets

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Taking a lead from Donald Clark (party pooper extraordinaire) and his regular debunking postings, I thought I'd express my irritation at another great training cliche -the insistence that 'people are our greatest asset'. Now there are organisations where this is undoubtedly true (hospitals, schools, professional service firms - I'm sure you can think of plenty more), but it simply defies credibility that this holds true for every type of organisation.

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Informal learning - less than a dollar a hit

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For some months now I've been carrying Jay Cross's new book Informal Learning around in my bag to read on train journeys. I must have been making lots of very short journeys because I never seem to have spent more than ten minutes or so on any one of the topics - a sort of lucky dip reading experience. Perhaps this is because I was already sold on the central idea - that informal learning was an important and often neglected element of learning at work - and so was really just looking for those

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From enlightenment to romanticism

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Patrick Dunn, in his posting The Science of Yearning (for answers) , continues and expands the debate about the value of cognitive neuroscience to the work of the learning and development profession, as kicked off in my posting The Science of Learning , which reports on a seminar I attended that was facilitated by Dr Itiel Dror. Now, there's no reason why I should be defending Itiel's work (or what I understood of it), but I find myself doing that (perhaps it's because I'm having lunch with him