From the Coleface
MAY 11, 2023
I believe that concerns about ChatGPT making formal learning obsolete are unfounded. The picture is more nuanced and so it helps to be clear about which use cases play to ChatGPT’s and formal learning’s relative strengths. Where does formal learning win? Where does ChatGPT win?
From the Coleface
MAY 31, 2017
In 1990 Peter Senge published “ The Fifth Discipline ” , giving a compelling vision of how companies could transform into learning organisations. L&D’s board sponsor had read The Fifth Discipline and was inspired to move the culture towards becoming a learning organisation. Personal Learning Record.
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From the Coleface
DECEMBER 24, 2014
At a recent Professional Services e-learning Forum, L&D teams were likened to “cobbler’s children with no shoes” This allegory describes the phenomenon where professionals are so busy with work for their clients and their teams that they neglect using their professional skills to help themselves or those closest to them.
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Much of the e-learning that professional firms offer is compliance-based. The risk is that poor compliance e-learning ends up tainting learners’ expectations of e-learning (this is sometimes referred to as the “compliance e-learning cul-de-sac”). p49: “What must we do differently to develop a culture of compliance?”
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 14, 2014
If e-learning has a creation myth, it is that the e-learning industry was born out of the dotcom crash at the turn of the century – swarms of freshly unemployed web designers and developers started applying their skills to changing learner behaviour rather than consumer behaviour. Rating systems (e.g. But of what?
From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
In the November Issue of TJ , Des Woods and Henry Marsden have an article called “How professionals learn” As the former head of learning at Ernst & Young and head of professional development at Linklaters, Des is writing from considerable experience. Professionals like business school style case studies.
From the Coleface
MARCH 13, 2012
Last week I attended #SLCONF , a conference on social learning. Social learning is a zeitgeisty term which is very much in the early stages of the Gartner hype cycle for most organisations. I participated to find out more about what social learning is and what L&D practitioners should be doing about it/ with it.
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