E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you’ll be in my corner of the globe over the next 12 months, may I draw your attention to the following… Learning Cafe Unconference. With 2012 gathering steam, it’s time to plan the next round of professional development events to attend. • Where: Sydney. • When: 16 February 2012.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

By focusing the L&D team’s attention on the real needs of the business, not only does the volume of demand reduce, but the work becomes more relevant. Individuals who are “not yet competent” in particular areas can be assigned personalised interventions. This approach avoids the solution first trap.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the funniest tweets I have ever seen was brought to my attention by Vala Afshar … How it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time. Impressed with what the app can do, I turned my attention to using it in the workplace. #UX pic.twitter.com/IwcqECciFN.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 10, 2014

The scenarios involve real employees as well as paid actors, and they recreate scenes that have actually happened at the organisation – eg a young woman receiving unwanted attention from a colleague at the Christmas party, a baggage handler being bullied by a peer in his team, a manager reprimanding one of his team members for her dishevelled appearance, (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

Freed from the burden of training everything , we can now focus our attention on what should be trained. The building blocks in the 70 and the 20 spearhead an informal first approach to learning and development which lifts a mountain of weight off the shoulders of the L&D team.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 12, 2011

It describes increases in what we are aware of, or what we can pay attention to, and therefore what we can influence and integrate.&#. And yet these parallel universes have many features in common: both dog and mistress must be careful crossing the street, and both will pay close attention to other dogs, if not for the same reasons.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2013

If you’ll be down under over the next 12 months, may I draw your attention to the following… ACE2013 – Australasian Computing Education Conference. 2013 has well and truly arrived. That means it’s time to plan your next round of professional development events to attend. • Where: Adelaide.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 12, 2011

I rarely enjoy a clear half hour at my desk anyway, with the constant distractions of the office environment demanding my attention. For example, I wouldn’t mind working my way through a 30 minute course over two or three sessions on the ferry, especially when my boss lets me go home early to do so.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 31, 2013

Seriously though, one aspect of moocs that I think requires urgent attention is the sense that many participants feel of being overwhelmed. Now that I have participated in a mooc, I am naturally qualified to dispense expert advice about them.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 5, 2012

For a fledgling language student like myself there is no more difficult way of learning space systems than by lectures delivered entirely in Russian … I learned very little during the 4:00PM to 6:00PM lecture time-slot, other than how to appear attentive while daydreaming.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 2, 2017

Successive realisations have rapidly dawned on me that I love maths and stats, I’ve floated away from them over time, the world is finally waking up to the importance of scientific method, and it is high time I refocused my attention onto it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 8, 2011

Returning my attention to m-learning this year is probably a wise idea. But times change. Now every man and his dog owns an iPhone or a Blackberry or an Android or an iPad. Phone plans are a lot cheaper, and download speeds are smoking. The moral of the story.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

From an organisational capability perspective, a gold-plated opportunity arises during this phase in the employee’s lifecycle to draw their attention to the capability framework and the riches therein. Yet it is crucial for setting up the new recruit for success.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

Scott is the Co-founder & CMO of Explore Engage , a digital media company that is attracting serious attention for its augmented reality eyewear. Sydneysider Scott O’Brien is back in town after an extended stint in San Francisco.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 1, 2015

I translate this dichotomy as the difference between “learning” and “development”, recognising that as a profession we tend to assign disproportionately more attention to the former – to our organisation’s detriment. I elaborate here. Siemens, G. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you’ll be in my corner of the globe over the next 12 months, may I draw your attention to the following… Australian eLearning Congress. With 2012 gathering steam, it’s time to plan the next round of professional development events to attend. • Where: Sydney. • When: 7-9 February 2012.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I grew up playing football (aka soccer) and although a few different codes compete for my attention in my home town, the World Game is the one I truly care about. As my friends can attest, I’m a big Socceroos fan.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 21, 2008

With social networking starting to make in-roads into the corporate sector (eg NAB , ING ), our attention turns increasingly to netiquette. I feel that existing codes of conduct and other company policies probably cover most cases of unprofessional behaviour, whether in the online space or otherwise.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2013

After the novelty of the first couple of weeks wears off, real life competes hard for your attention. The duration of the whole course was 5 weeks, which again I found to be just right. In all honesty, I think I would have dropped out if it were any longer.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

With ever increasing pressure bearing down on L&D professionals to put out the next big fire, it’s no wonder we don’t have time to scratch ourselves before shifting our attention to something new – let alone measure what has already been and gone. Alas, today’s working environment favours activity over outcome.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

With ever increasing pressure bearing down on L&D professionals to put out the next big fire, it’s no wonder we don’t have time to scratch ourselves before shifting our attention to something new – let alone measure what has already been and gone. Alas, today’s working environment favours activity over outcome.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 2, 2017

I thank Helen Blunden and David Kelly for drawing it to my attention. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. As its name suggests, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a multi-player hoot. In the virtual reality version of the game, the player wearing the headset is immersed in a room with a bomb.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The argument is that workers these days are busy professionals with the attention span of a juvenile gnat, so anything longer than a few minutes won’t be effective. The universal advice for m-learning is to keep it short. I don’t buy it, but I am in the minority. Nonetheless, I recognise the benefits of this approach.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The argument is that workers these days are busy professionals with the attention span of a juvenile gnat, so anything longer than a few minutes won’t be effective. The universal advice for m-learning is to keep it short. I don’t buy it, but I am in the minority. Nonetheless, I recognise the benefits of this approach.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Not only was the glory of Canberra amplified throughout the social media metasphere, but the initiative itself was the subject of interstate media attention. But miniscule gripes aside, I expect the Human Brochure will prove to be a roaring success. Time will tell whether ROI is achieved.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 20, 2015

However one who took the bait hook, line and sinker was none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose involvement helped catapult the photographs to public attention in the first place. In fact, most probably weren’t. It must also be said that as a devout spiritualist, Sir Arthur wanted to believe.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Not only was the glory of Canberra amplified throughout the social media metasphere, but the initiative itself was the subject of interstate media attention. But miniscule gripes aside, I expect the Human Brochure will prove to be a roaring success. Time will tell whether ROI is achieved.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Connie Malamed recently drew my attention to the How Do I Become President? challenge at Kids.gov. It’s a competition for kids to create an infographic or poster that explains the process of becoming the President of the United States.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

• Avoid bright decorations and looped animations that compete with the substantive content for the learner’s attention. . • Migrate extensive text into a downloadable document or into a wiki. • Use consistent navigation, symbols and visual design (as per behaviourism, but according to a different rationale).

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2010

Now that I have your attention, please bear with me. A touch dramatic, isn’t it? There’s method in my madness… The myth of rapid authoring. The proliferation of so-called rapid authoring tools over the last few years has coincided with an explosion in the number of online courses developed in-house.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 18, 2011

And guess who’s shifting their attention to the business sector. You can also assign people to groups – even if you’re not the group’s admin. All good for Yammer, right? You see, everyone on the planet has heard of Google, but relatively few have heard of Yammer.

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