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Video streaming brings events to a much wider audience

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The Learning Pool Public Sector Learning Conference 2010, held last week in London, was an impressively-organised event that seems to have met with an enthusiastic response from the 150 or so paying attendees. By all traditional measures for face-to-face conferences, this was a success. Both require people turning up in person.

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Online learners need the means, the motive and the opportunity

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To make good use of the opportunities afforded by online learning, users also need some more specific skills, including the ability to search, to communicate appropriately using forums, blogs, wikis and social networks, and to study effectively on their own. They may be right.

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How online education could mean a very few attain stardom

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I was fascinated to read an article in this week''s Economist on Massive Open Online Forces , looking at some of the economic effects of the rise of online education. Of course they can also do this through face-to-face events such as conferences, but are limited in their reach by geography.

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Time for a clearout of urban myths

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At the time of writing, I am on my to speak at the eLearning Network’s annual conference in London. A true professional is always looking for evidence that will better enable them to provide an effective service to their clients, even when that sometimes means giving up on an idea that you’ve taken to heart.

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Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss

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We are not interested in which is the more popular medium, and we are not focusing on which is the more effective in terms of achieving learning outcomes, behaviour change or positive performance improvements. In examining these two media, we must note carefully what we are NOT comparing. A no-brainer. That’s what I presented.

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Survey on the use of media elements in e-learning

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The survey is being conducted by Dan Bilton in preparation for an I/ITSEC conference paper. Here’s what Dan has to say: The goal of this survey is to gather information about how instructional designers use both text and audio in their design approaches and to identify the approaches that are considered the most effective.

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Ultimately it’s line managers that determine the success of learning and development

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There is so much that managers can do to support l&d: arranging buddies for new employees, organising job enrichment and rotation, providing coaching and guidance, organising secondments, identifying external technical training and conferences, knowledge sharing and running their own briefings and discussions.