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NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Where am I coming from? Over the last few months I've read a number of blog posts about learning styles (see references at end of post). So, do learning styles exist? (for what it matters, I'm in the 'no they don't' camp) However, this post isn't so much about whether or not they exist, rather I'm more interested in why people believe so strongly that learning styles indicators do in fact provide a measure of how an individual learns best.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Designing a way forward Designing - the first word of this post's title and the overall focus of this post! Over the last couple of months I've read and re-read Hartmut Esslingers book, ' a fine line '. It's rare that I re-read a book straight after reading it, however my mind was drawn back again and again to the book. Upon each re-visit I left the book ever more certain that the design lessons contained within it were essential for successful learning design.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

This is just a short post to point you to another interesting tool for personal learning, it's called Alltop.I've been using Alltop for a couple of months now and I reckon it's a great way of keeping up with multiple blogs, way easier than trying to remember! You do need to create an account, but after that it's pretty easy to use! For those who don't know Alltop, it is a creation of the fertile mind of Guy Kawasak i.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

My last post was a list of tips for using Powerpoint/Keynote more effectively - The Powerpoint Dozen ! Here is part 2, the slideshow. The first installment provided the written tips, much like many slide presentations you are subjected to - heavy on text. Now, there's nothing wrong with text, it just doesn't belong in any quantity on Powerpoint or Keynote slides!

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

In the city I live in, Melbourne, Australia, we have been in drought for most of the last decade. Water storages had recently fallen to just over 25% full. A few weeks ago however it rained and rained and rained, not drought ending rain, but the best anyone could remember in ages. Each day in the local papers are updates on the state of the city's water storages, the updates show how many megalitres the storages have gone up or down from the previous day.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I have just read a really interesting post on the Frog Design site! The article by Tim Leberecht is titled " The future of news: Hyper-distribution or Hyper-branding? " The focus of the article is on possible future business models for news media. As I was reading the article, I was struck by what I felt were parallels with learning and the distribution of knowledge.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Today's post flows nicely from yesterday's post on one type of Personal Learning Environment, Alltop, a site where you are able to aggregate your blog interests in one area. The difference today however is that I'm writing about my very OWN personal learning environment, a personal website, michaeleury.com , that I have published only in the last few days!

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AUGUST 16, 2009

In recent times I've seen and heard much discussion around informal and social learning. For example, is informal learning necessarily social in nature? Has the rise of new technologies altered the traditional view of social learning? How can we harness new technologies to foster a culture of learning within our business? And so on. Firstly some definitions - mine.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

The past I'd like to take you back to where I was 5 years ago. My role was working for Australia's then largest retailer, ColesMyer. I managed a team of facilitators whose role was to deliver face-to-face workshops to staff, from entry level, through to senior management. Face-to-face learning was the dominant delivery method with some elearning to deliver generally fact-based knowledge, for example, induction, food safety, OHS and so forth.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

I know I'm influenced by ideas outside classical learning/educational circles. Yesterday I began a doodle of all the areas that I feel influence how I design programs, develop resources and facilitate workshops. The doodle evolved into the following "Learning Web". As you can see I am influenced by a pretty broad range of disciplines. This is reflected in the types of posts I write for this blog, the way I see it is that there are lessons all around us!

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AUGUST 10, 2009

I've been a keen reader of Seth Godin's perspectives on marketing (and everything) for a while now. But this morning one of his books caught my eye as I went to sit at my desk - Permission Marketing. It's strange how the mind works, I saw the title and I thought "mmm, that's how to get traction for informal learning in the workplace". If you're not following my train of thought yet, let me explain!

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JUNE 24, 2009

I am reading a book called Remix at the moment by Lawrence Lessig. Whilst the books main emphasis is upon how restrictive/outdated copyright laws are inhibiting creativity by preventing me from including an excerpt from a film or TV show on my blog (OK I still might do this! But doing so is criminal according to copyright laws!) My post today though isn't about copyright however!

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AUGUST 9, 2009

I suppose for most people it's fair to say that, 'You know what you know, but you don't know what you don't know.' For me this changed about 12 months ago. How did it change? I subscribed to one blog, PresentationZen. From here I soon realised that there was indeed a lot that I didn't know - so I read one book, then another, subscribed to one more blog, then another and on it went.

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JULY 24, 2009

I've written previously about my use of the term 'Learning Design' rather than the more regular 'Instructional Design'. Briefly, I approach my work from the perspective of designing a way forward for learners to take them from where they are now to where they would like to be. To me this put the learner at the centre of what I do, so therefore I am a person who DESIGNS learning.

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JULY 21, 2009

In an earlier post on Informal Learning I made the observation that social networks allow people to create their own villages of learning. What I meant by this is that people once had only one source of knowledge, the village. Even when a visitor brought new ideas, this new knowledge was shared amongst the group. The industrial revolution introduced the benefits of scale to industry, further enhanced over the last 100 years by the structure introduced through Henry Ford's production lines.

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JULY 14, 2009

A few posts ago I mentioned that I'd just received a copy of ' Ignore Everybody ' by Hugh MacLeod (of gapingvoid ). I read the book on the flight to Hobart Tasmania last week, the book makes a great 'airplane book', short, sharp and easily readable. In the book Hugh writes on 40 keys to creativity, here are my top 10: Good ideas have lonely childhoods.

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JULY 1, 2009

Short and sharp post today! Amazon delivered a package this morning so I'll have some reading material for my trip to Tasmania next week. I've tried resisting reading it already, got 3 chapters in (they're really short!) but then put it down, I'll save it for the flight. So, what is the book I'm talking about? "Ignore Everybody - and 39 Other Keys to Creativity" by Hugh MacLeod.

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JUNE 30, 2009

Waiting doesn't cost me anything! However, Chris Anderson, in his soon to be released new book, "Free: the future of a radical price" , goes beyond this and today on Seth Godin's blog is a review of a review of 'Free' by Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Outliers" and "The Tipping Point" as well as a writer for the New Yorker. Here is Malcolm's review of Free.

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JUNE 16, 2009

I have been reading articles lately from the Journal of Learning Design. For those who don't know of the journal, it is a journal that focuses on designing the learning environment to assist the learning process, concentrating on a design focus rather than technology and looking to move beyond a traditional instructional focus. One article in particular has appealed to me, Beyond Instructional Design: Making Learning Design a Reality, by Rod Sims.

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JULY 10, 2009

6 months of 2009 have already passed me by. Amazon and my local bookstores have been kept pretty busy keeping up with my reading habits and last night I was looking at my bookshelf thinking to myself which books would make a list of the best business books I've read so far this year. After sleeping on it I came up with a shortlist of around 10, but have cut that down to 6, one for each month so far!

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AUGUST 3, 2009

I've written a range of posts over the last few months that in some way have referred to the rising use of various technologies in workplace learning environments. Technologies such as elearning generally, twitter, personal learning environments, wikis, webinars and so forth. As I've looked over the posts I've written, one thing stuck out, I have made no reference to 'standard', 'old school', face-to-face delivery of workshop-based learning?

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