E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 31, 2022

Despite the prevailing rhetoric for the Learning & Development function to be “data driven”, data for the purposes of evaluating what we do is notoriously hard to come by. At this juncture I wish to caution against conflating learning & development with performance consulting.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 1, 2024

Australian Tertiary and VET Conference Sydney, 6-8 March 2024 International Conference on Education, Learning and Training Auckland, 7-8 March 2024 International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations Melbourne, 14-16 March 2024 iDESIGNX Sydney, 20 March 2024 L&D Leadership Summit Melbourne, 30-31 May 2024 Learning and Development (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In The next normal several of my peers and I anticipate the long-term nature of Learning & Development. In The leader’s new clothes I distinguish between management training and leadership training. In Transformers I redefine training for a remote workforce.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 1, 2021

And to be scalable from an organisational development perspective, the skill needs to be transferable across roles and leadership levels, so that it’s applicable to the context in which each individual works. While the future extends beyond this timeframe, I typically see any crystal balling for it too fantastical to be useful.).

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 3, 2023

Which, I’m sorry to concede, does not represent everyone in the Learning & Development profession. Over the course of my career, I’ve witnessed a lot of talk among my peers about what should and shouldn’t be done to improve learning outcomes and hence business performance… but not a lot of action.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

While many of us had been offering online courses and other alternatives to in-person training for years, suddenly nothing could be run in a traditional classroom setting; and so as a collective we’ve been forced to shift learning and development online. And this will greatly affect in-person education and training.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As to their decency, I’ll let you be the judge… In Not our job I proposed we Learning & Development professionals defend our remit. In Supercharge your digital training I proposed three ways to transform online delivery. In The right stuff I proposed we recruit an evaluation specialist.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 7, 2022

I like to think I called a spade a spade: we’re responsible for learning & development; our colleagues are responsible for performance; and if they’re willing to collaborate, we have value to add. (A former colleague did politely pose a comment as a disagreement, but I happened to agree with everything she stated.).

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 31, 2020

To innovate our way out of the underwhelming “new normal” and usher in the modern “next normal” In some cases that will mean pivoting away from training in favour of more progressive methodologies. Bums on seats misses the point of training which, let’s remind ourselves again, is to improve performance.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

There are two sides of the innovation coin in corporate learning & development: technology and pedagogy. So it was with much surprise that, upon starting my new role in a global bank, charged with innovating its learning & development offering, I encountered the reverse! In this way, the training becomes performance oriented.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the context of corporate learning & development, consider the employee who complains of being overwhelmed by the number of search results returned by the online course library, yet happily uses Google which returns billions of results. As a populace, we nailed that one. It is – by definition – an exemplar of the $100 Hypothetical.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 20, 2012

• 10% of learning occurs via formal training (eg classes). This 70:20:10 breakdown has since been supported by subsequent research , though sometimes the ratio is represented as 80:20 to reflect informal learning and formal training respectively. Moreover, it may stand alone to meet the organisation’s development need.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Sooner rather than later, it was clear to me that not all our training was to be delivered to everyone in the same room at the same time. Of course, even if Jim did upskill himself in online course development, the company may very well have ended up outsourcing that work to an offshore provider.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Evidence-based practice is the darling of Learning & Development geeks. So if a study or even a meta-analysis demonstrates the efficacy of the flipped classroom approach to workplace training, it mightn’t replicate at your company because no one does the pre-work. And with good reason.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 22, 2014

Notwithstanding either the validity or the importance of our concerns with UGC, the traditional training model is becoming increasingly unsustainable in the modern workplace. Ron has made sure that there is a comprehensive training program to cover all aspects of the job. And yet… the world is changing. What should Ron do?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

Of course, remnants of the “formal first” philosophy still exist, whereby every conceivable problem is attempted to be fixed by a training solution, typically in the form of a course. While in some cases informal learning obviates the need for training, in other cases it will complement it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 15, 2018

I have long been of the opinion that L&D professionals should dispense with being the SME of what is being trained; and instead be the SME of how it’s being trained. Under this paradigm, we are the experts in the science and practice of learning and development, and we consult the business accordingly.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 27, 2017

Now I realise that I severely underestimated the level of support that my colleagues seek in relation to their learning and development. Far too many imho wait to be trained, and our boring, time-guzzling and ultimately useless offerings haven’t helped change their minds. But our target audience is not like us.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 26, 2017

While the 4 Part Employee Lifecycle is purposefully simple, for many it may be a little too simple in terms of “Performance” So I propose the subdivision of this part into its own four subparts: (1) Performance Management; (2) Development; (3) Health & Wellbeing; and (4) Retention. What training should we push?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

The initiative allows training providers to issue digital “badges” to the participants in their courses, who thereby earn online representations of their newly acquired skills. Moreover, mandatory compliance training is universally disdained and dreaded in equal measure. But I have since realised this is a terrible idea.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

One of the more exciting ideas to emerge from the corporate learning space, which I hasten to add is yet to be realised, is to transform the Learning & Development department into a performance centre. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2014

As another year dawns, another round of professional development opportunities beckon down under… Bonza! SimTecT2014 – Asia-Pacific Simulation Training Conference. Learning and Development: The Tools to Prepare You For 2014. Australian eLearning Congress. • Where: Melbourne. • When: 11-13 February 2014.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In A slight misnomer I propose an adjustment to the job title “Learning Experience Designer” In The definition of insanity I revise my solution to fixing our senseless compliance training. In Reality bites I urge caution when using research to inform decisions.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 1, 2015

So it was with much gratitude that I read The Science of Training and Development in Organizations: What Matters in Practice. Industrial and Commercial Training , 36(7), pp. In this paper, the author distinguishes between two directions of human development: horizontal growth and vertical transformation. Kraiger, K. &

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 22, 2020

He proudly explained how the year prior, the lab had applied the progressive methodology to the development of a new product which had, finally, launched. We see this kind of thing all the time in workplace learning and development. So the team needs to develop x capability? His straight-faced answer: Seven.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 16, 2013

I consider this an important point because as learning in the corporate sector becomes more informal, the employee’s motivation to drive their own development will become increasingly pivotal to their performance, and hence to the performance of the organisation as a whole. Open badges can credential in-house training.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2013

That means it’s time to plan your next round of professional development events to attend. Simulation-Based Training. SimTecT2013 – Asia-Pacific Simulation Training Conference. 2013 has well and truly arrived. • Where: Adelaide. • When: 29 January – 1 February 2013. • More info: ACE2013. .

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 20, 2012

This 70:20:10 breakdown has since been supported by subsequent research , though sometimes the ratio is represented as 80:20 to reflect informal learning and formal training respectively. Informal first is a mindset that prioritises informal learning over formal training in practice. Formal training becomes value add.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 22, 2011

The fundamental learning and development needs in the organisation (eg leadership, culture and change) are enterprise-wide. 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.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 28, 2014

In M-Learning’s dirty little secrets I advocated the creation of “one course to rule them all” I argued that if you must push out training, forget about smartphones. It replaces the notion of training “in case” it will be required with performance support “when” it is required. And the answer, of course, is it can.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

Learning & Development Professional has been running a poll on the following question: Is the 70:20:10 model still relevant today? After all, plenty of research can be cited to support the efficacy of on-the-job learning, social learning and formal training. Training will never die. And I’m shocked by the results.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 29, 2012

• Training needs analysis. • Content development. • Courseware development. • Training and coaching. • Training and coaching. For example, these are some of the activities that I might do on any given day: • Client consulting. • Content curation. • Content mapping.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I think of the plethora of skills that are developed away from the cubicle. No – I’m referring to the learner’s training records. But worse, if the learner leaves the organisation to join another, they also leave their training records behind. We’re going to make you do your training all over again.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

audience: Tips to try in Training & Development in Australia , 38(4). It’s tempting for the managers of these teams to deny their staff the opportunity to attend training, or even to undertake e-learning at their desks. Late last year, I stumbled upon the story of the hardworking woodcutter. And you know what?

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

In my view, every employee has the obligation to drive their own development. This relieves the L&D professional from developing and managing content over which they have no authority. Must it be said that every manager has the obligation to manage the development of their own staff.? The role of the manager.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

As a teenager I developed a fascination for the German language. Skills development. Developing a skill is a waste of time if you never apply it in the real world. At some stage you need to immerse yourself in the environment (in my case, Germany) and actively participate (eg order food, buy train tickets, ask for directions).

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of my peers in Australia, Arun Pradhan , is developing an app to help us learn smarter, faster and deeper. Of course computer-based training had been around for decades, but when the World Wide Web took off in the 1990’s, it transformed education. When I first got into e-learning, it was all very new for everyone.

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