Rob Hubbard

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Stop Wasting Time: Designing Effective and Efficient Learning Systems

Rob Hubbard

What’s the biggest cost in any elearning or training programme? The production of video, graphics and audio? 10,000 employees going through three hours of bloated elearning courseware is a huge time cost to your organisation. The instructional design time? The subject matter expert’s time?

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Virtually there – VR AR World London

Rob Hubbard

They were more interested in sharing their enthusiasm for their products, many of which were at prototype stage, than making a sale. I took a trip down to London recently for AR VR (Augmented Reality Virtual Reality) World. It was a small affair with geeks rather than sales people manning most of the stands.

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10 lessons from Design Thinking that can be applied to digital learning

Rob Hubbard

They use the design thinking methodology to design products, services, environments, and digital experiences. Prototype early and at low cost to mitigate risk and to build your business case. If you haven’t heard of them before, they are a design consultancy headquartered in California but with offices throughout the world.

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How does responsive design impact learning culture?

Rob Hubbard

When a client asks us to create a responsive site for them, for example, a job aid or a resources hub, they are not simply asking for a well-designed product that will look nice wherever it is accessed, they are asking us to help them embed learning more thoroughly into workflow and into the everyday life of the organisation.

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6 ways to convince your organisation to embrace digital learning

Rob Hubbard

Despite being consistently able to show that those organisations who embrace learning technologies perform better, be it through increasing revenue, improving productivity or job performance, the overall situation remains relatively static in terms of budget committed to digital learning or the range of technology used.

Digital 40
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Why Use Video for Learning?

Rob Hubbard

The historical reasons for this have been cost of equipment, the high level of skill required to produce it, low bandwidth / slow corporate networks, the cringe-inducing ‘corporate videos’ that we’ve all seen. Here are a few ideas on how video could be used for learning purposes: Guided tours of new products , equipment or facilities.

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5 Ways to Use Goal-Based Learning

Rob Hubbard

They argue that this type of learning requires a serious shift in organisational thinking: “The learning is actually a by-product of facing unexpected challenges and ever-increasing performance requirements. The book describes the ongoing shift in power from institutions to individuals through what the authors call “pull”. This is a biggy.