E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

Terms such as “flipped classes” and “microlearning” emerged unprompted in my conversations with them. Difficult conversations are difficult conversations. Instead, I found everyone already on board with contemporary ideas. My colleagues are evidently well read, open minded, progressive thinkers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I once had a conversation with a man who scared me. It was over 20 years ago, and I remember him being quite a lovely fellow. He was simply proud of his son earning his PhD.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

We should be scaling up channels to help people have conversations about what they’re learning. Many employees are upskilling and crafting their career journeys with their own hands and L&D needs to have a deeper conversation on how to build this community of learners within and without the organizational boundaries.”

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 31, 2013

You are given a tonne of readings, and the most instruction you can hope to extract from the professors is “read this” The theory is that the students will collaborate with one another, share their diverse experiences, and contribute to robust conversations. At the end of the week, abandon those threads.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 8, 2014

So yes, I invite everyone to add their voice to the conversation. We don’t even have to agree – in fact the discussion is often richer if we don’t – so long as the interaction is empathetic and mutually respectful. blogging blog blogger comments e-learning purpose why writing'

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 1, 2013

If you don’t, your audience will splinter and they will use various permutations of acronyms and digits which will then dilute the conversation. Even better, include it on your marketing material to get the conversation going before Day 1. So tell everyone up front what the official hashtag is.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 25, 2011

I wonder, though, whether conversation (online or otherwise) would indeed be a useful technique after the basics have been bedded down? My sector of practice is corporate rather than K-12, but I would assume that because the learners are children, their level of experience and prior knowledge is limited.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

From simply saying new words aloud, through role plays, to full-blown conversation cafes, the objective is to practise. Now that I’m back in Oz, I know that I’ll lose much of my German unless I find ways to keep up the reading, writing, listening and conversing. OTJ, PBL and job aids.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Conversely, while Innovation is obviously relevant to the CEO, is it any less so for the contact centre operator? While technical capabilities will necessarily be different for the myriad job roles throughout your business, the organisational capabilities should be representative of the whole organisation’s commitment to performance.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 26, 2013

However, in my experience and in conversations with others, it is clear that they often don’t. That of course is not to say that the e-learning designer is prevented from using these devices; for example, he or she might leverage other non-LMS technology within the organisation or in the cloud.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 25, 2011

I wonder, though, whether conversation (online or otherwise) would indeed be a useful technique after the basics have been bedded down? My sector of practice is corporate rather than K-12, but I would assume that because the learners are children, their level of experience and prior knowledge is limited.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 5, 2015

If you try to force feed me, the conversation is over. If you lack an open and collaborative mindset, I won’t engage. Do not feed the bullies. Bully-boy tactics do not lend credence to your argument; in fact they do the opposite. Shut the pop up. I’ll just quit your article.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 22, 2011

There’s no point having an ivory tower bestowing empty training interventions upon the masses; and conversely, there’s no point having an army of hermits toiling away in isolation. Having said that, how the organisation implements the two is important.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In just about every conversation I have with my peers about apps, the peppermint pachyderm rates a mention. The weight of numbers lends credibility to my recommendations. While it’s early days yet, I’m not surprised to see Evernote streaking ahead. It seems everyone is talking about the elephant in the room!

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 22, 2012

”), but rather with the performance variable (“I see your conversion rate has fallen short of the target over the last 3 months”). He or she realises the client isn’t invested in the training activity , but rather in the outcome.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2013

Of course, this became less of a problem over time as huge numbers of participants dropped out, leaving the keen beans to carry on the conversation. In one thread, for example, the discussion descended into a list of sci-fi movies; no explanation as to how they were pertinent to the conversation, but oh what a list!

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 17, 2011

So they sit on the merry-go-round of meetings and proposals and committees and reviews and research and meetings… Occasionally, someone highly pertinent to the conversation (yet inexplicably left out of the loop) will have the guts to give it a go – all the while blissfully ignoring protocol.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Most cases of negative social media that I am aware of were (or would have been) best dealt with through participating in the conversation. That means you can’t respond. Be careful how you respond. In the case of Kid Fury where the antagonist was an employee, the employer still had to be very careful.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Conversely we can ask workshop attendees to share their experiences in class (connecting experience to education) or encourage them to call out for project opportunities (connecting exposure to experience). In the language of the framework, we are connecting education to experience, which in turn we connect to exposure.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 22, 2011

Conversely, someone with only 3 followers will be incredibly influential if those people happen to be the President of the United States, Rupert Murdoch and the Head of the European Central Bank. Of course, the metric doesn’t recognise who is following you.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

In a conversation I had with a friend the other day, I suggested one solution might be for the various regulatory agencies to develop their own training courses for their minions in Workland to complete. I personally believe it would stand up nonetheless, but without going to such extremes, how else could we ever truly know …?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 21, 2016

By the way, it’s not too late to keep the conversation going. A special thank you goes out to everyone who participated in VR Working Out Loud Week, including Simon Terry who helped me lift it off the ground in the first place. I’m already looking forward to launching it again next year.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The SME may be recognised as a “Java&# SME because they have said so in their profile, or – if the technology is sophisticated enough – their contributions of Java-related content in the wiki and participation in Java-related conversations on the discussion forum flag them as such.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Conversely, when the employee leaves the team (or exits the organisation) the capability framework can be used to assess the skills gap that remains. Not only do they identify the capabilities that someone needs to succeed in their current role, but also the capabilities they need to succeed in their next role.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2014

Whereas traditional design and user-centered design remove the user from the active design process, and conversely, emancipatory design removes the expert designer from the process, user design merges the roles into the shared role of co-designer. User design fits between the extremes of the user empowerment continuum.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Conversely, some of the smaller, younger institutions will emerge from the shadows as the world sees how good they really are. While the world’s most prestigious institutions will enjoy a windfall of new students, those that rely more on age than ability will ultimately fail as the target audience realises how pedestrian they are.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

With tools like blogs, wikis and discussion forums, they can contribute content, participate in the conversation, and keep everyone up to speed in their domain. Taking the logic one step further, every employee also has the obligation to share their knowledge with their colleagues. empowers them to do just that.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

Job aids would also be useful, especially for skills-based information; for example, the sequence of key messages to convey in a client conversation. Then they can look it up just in time when they need it; for example, in the waiting room while visiting a client.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

For example, if I read a newspaper article or have an enlightening conversation with someone around the water cooler, I can log into my account and record it. This idea has taken the education world by storm, and some LMSs such as UpsideLMS have already integrated the API into their proprietary architecture.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 12, 2014

After the specified time period has passed, students rotate and have a conversation with another peer.” Students talk for a short time (1 or 2 minutes) with a classmate, typically in response to a question or set of questions. ” Dare I suggest again the major concern of the participants is their social standing?

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 24, 2008

I didn’t think much of this conversation until recently, when I was reminiscing about my college years. For me, however, the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW), and I remember first browsing it with Netscape Navigator back in my undergrad years at UTS. In haste, I answered 1993.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Conversely, some of the smaller, younger institutions will emerge from the shadows as the world sees how good they really are. While the world’s most prestigious institutions will enjoy a windfall of new students, those that rely more on age than ability will ultimately fail as the target audience realises how pedestrian they are.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2015

In conversation at EduTECH earlier this month, Harold Jarche evoked George E. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” Of course, the purpose of a model is to simplify a complex system so that something purposeful can be done within it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 18, 2016

I also see an opportunity with VR for police officers to experience what it’s like to be hassled on the street, and conversely, for the public to appreciate what it’s like to be a police officer. Returning to the corporate sector, ask yourself: where are the social interactions?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2010

Instead, they are the result of observation, conversation, experience, gut instinct, self-important opinion, and general naivety. To help answer this question, I’ve decided to share 10 insights about workplace social media from a practising learning & development professional in the corporate sector (ie yours truly).

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2013

Conversely, you can earn a cut by promoting other people’s courses too. (The algorithm is slightly different for coupon-derived sales.). You can also add your course to the Udemy affiliate program, which makes it available for others to promote for a share of the spoils. Udemy assumes that the bulk of your course will be lectures.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

For example, if I read a newspaper article or have an enlightening conversation with someone around the water cooler, I can log into my account and record it. This idea has taken the education world by storm, and some LMSs such as UpsideLMS have already integrated the API into their proprietary architecture.

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