E-Learning Provocateur

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Violets are blue

E-Learning Provocateur

In Gold vibes only I borrowed a mantra coined by the great Patty Mills and applied it to organisational culture. In Space invaders I untangled terms relating to the spacing effect, while in Time pilot I extended the coverage to interleaving. In The apex of innovation I isolated a variable that’s critical to continuous improvement.

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Gold vibes only

E-Learning Provocateur

A culture of excellence breeds excellence. In contrast, a culture of laziness and unaccountability breeds apathy and mediocrity. In Tokyo, he writes, the Aussie support team “doubled down on dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” And I think he’s right.

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I don’t know

E-Learning Provocateur

I don’t mean to underestimate the shift in culture that would be necessary to effect such a change, but I contend the benefits would be worth it – both to the organisation and to the individual.

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Reality bites

E-Learning Provocateur

They have different budgets, systems, policies, processes, and most consequentially, cultures. By design it locks down the variables, making it challenging to compare apples to apples. In short, all organisations are different.

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Is the pedagogy of MOOCs flawed?

E-Learning Provocateur

How to encourage active participation on social platforms is a hot topic in the L&D sphere, and there is no easy answer because it’s a question of organisational culture which can’t be “fixed” over night. As for local meetups, in all my years I have never seen this offered in a regular online course!

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Rubber bands and chewing gum

E-Learning Provocateur

And I’ve heard all the excuses to justify it: “I haven’t been trained in that”; “We don’t have the technology”; “We don’t have the right culture” Which again I’m sorry to concede, I’ve been quick to judge as symptoms of ineptitude, laziness or apathy.

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All hail the electronic calf

E-Learning Provocateur

So I signed up to The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures course on Coursera. Given I’ve been blogging about MOOCs lately, I thought it was high time I better informed my perspective by actually doing a MOOC. as we consumers are only too willing to worship the one true god.

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