E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In Supercharge your digital training I proposed three ways to transform online delivery. In The right stuff I proposed we recruit an evaluation specialist. In Approaching perfection I proposed we drop the arbitrary pass mark. In I don’t know I proposed we normalise a new answer option.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I’ve blogged in favour of digital badges in the past, not because they’re colourful motivators – which arguably they are, at least for some people – but because they represent an achievement.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 1, 2024

Our audience doesn’t much care for it, and for them I suggest it would make more sense to repackage “digital” skills (working with data, working with technology) and “people” skills (working with humans, working with yourself). Having said that, perhaps all this linguistic gymnastics is just an academic sideshow.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 4, 2022

Well my friends, that day has arrived. Recursive feedback.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 26, 2013

Case in point, the University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC is one of the best online courses I have ever experienced. Sure, that’s to be expected given the massive scale of MOOCs, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I’ve previously expressed my view in the context of digital badges – see The past tense of open badges and More than just a pretty face – that a qualification is a promise that you can do something; whereas a badge is (or more to the point, should be) a symbol that you have done it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

Despite my tongue-in-cheek tweet however, digital self-directed learning hasn’t become the norm. How can we use technology to put people into the same digital spaces to help learning ‘go viral’? Unlike Corona, we actually want that to spread quickly. And this will greatly affect in-person education and training.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 11, 2013

Eventually I settled on The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures mooc, because it targeted practising e-learning professionals who “want to deepen their understanding of what it means to teach and learn in the digital age”, not to mention the fact I was fascinated by its coverage of popular culture.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 4, 2016

Digital Disruption X 2016. Leading a Digital School Conference. . • Where: Sydney. • When: 3-4 March 2016. • More info: FutureSchools. iDESIGNX Live 2016. • Where: Sydney. • When: 16 March 2016. • More info: LearnX. • Where: Sydney. • When: 12-23 March 2016. • More info: IQPC.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

TEDxWarwick talk in Week 3 of The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures course. Similarly, digital technology is an extension of our notion of humanity. In fact, it becomes expected because, just as a bicycle enhances our capability for travel, digital technology enhances our capability for learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

• digital influence. As in the first volume, my intent is to provoke deeper thinking across a range of e-learning related themes in the workplace, including: • social business. • informal learning. • mobile learning. • microblogging. • data analysis. • customer service. • augmented reality.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 27, 2013

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.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

And if it needs to become more digitally literate, recruit digitally literate people. If your organisation needs to become more collaborative, recruit collaborative people. If it needs to become more innovative, recruit innovative people. Onboarding.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Plurality is a brilliant short film watched by the participants in Week 2 of The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures course. We can already store digital information in synthetic DNA. Recording reams and reams of minor learning interactions all seems a bit pointless to me. So where to from here?

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

But if you want to transform the digital online relationship to a whole new different level which has meaningful and memorable impact, the answer is clear: you need face time. So my suggestion is to face up to better instructional design. By all means, continue to facilitate asynchronous discussions – they’re incredibly important.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

Scott is the Co-founder & CMO of Explore Engage , a digital media company that is attracting serious attention for its augmented reality eyewear. While Google Glass has augmented reality capability, it is essentially a wearable computer with which digital information is conveniently presented in front of the wearer’s eye.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 22, 2011

I’ve never been comfortable with attributing digital influence to the number of followers someone has on Twitter. So notwithstanding complicated and opaque measures like Klout, LATI provides an open and convenient snapshot of digital influence. To me, it’s more a measure of your longevity on the platform.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 2, 2013

For example, if I were an employer who needed a graphic designer, I would seek someone who knows how to take awesome digital photos and edit them in Photoshop. So an applicant who has earned badges for digital photography techniques and advanced Photoshop operations would be an obvious candidate.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

• digital influence. As in the first volume, my intent is to provoke deeper thinking across a range of e-learning related themes in the workplace, including: • social business. • informal learning. • mobile learning. • microblogging. • data analysis. • customer service. • augmented reality.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The mooc in question was e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age by the University of Illinois on the Coursera platform. I found the Australian accents of the instructors a pleasant surprise, and the quality of the content top-notch.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Plurality is a brilliant short film watched by the participants in Week 2 of The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures course. We can already store digital information in synthetic DNA. Recording reams and reams of minor learning interactions all seems a bit pointless to me. So where to from here?

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 27, 2017

As a digitally savvy L&D professional, I’ve had the temperament to recognise the capabilities I need – nay, want – to develop, the knowledge of how and where to develop them, and crucially the motivation to go ahead and do it. But that was then, and this is now.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

It’s a subtle yet powerful distinction that occurred to me as I absorbed the core reading for Week 1 of The University of Edinburgh’s E-learning and Digital Cultures course; namely Daniel Chandler’s Technological or Media Determinism. That’s why I don’t want a gun on the table.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 26, 2018

I soon re-titled my blog E-Learning Provocateur , not only for unique branding, but also to better convey my intent to provoke deeper thinking in the digital learning space and across L&D more broadly. Some of my posts have been contrarian, others counter-contrarian.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 7, 2020

What does it mean for digital learning? The iconic “2020” has dawned. Let’s find out… International Conference on E-Learning and Distance Learning. Sydney, 30-31 January 2020. International Conference on Virtual and AR Simulations. Sydney, 14-16 February 2020. Blended Learning & Innovation Summit. iDESIGNX.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. Learning in the digital age. Siemens bills connectivism as “a learning theory for the digital age&#.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 1, 2019

Digital Disruption X. Leading a Digital School Conference. Perth, 23-25 February 2019. Brisbane, 27 February 2019. Learning Disruption. Melbourne, 20 March 2019. National FutureSchools Expo and Conferences. Melbourne, 20-21 March 2019. Sydney, 26-27 March 2019. Learning Disruption. Sydney, 28 March 2019. Hobart, 2-3 May 2019.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 15, 2011

Barry Vercoe shows how the XO “$100 laptop&# is improving digital literacy among children in the world’s remotest areas. Mark Zawacki predicts that everything will be in the cloud and your mobile device will be your thin client.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 27, 2013

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.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 1, 2015

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. I translate this dichotomy as the difference between “learning” and “development”, recognising that as a profession we tend to assign disproportionately more attention to the former – to our organisation’s detriment. I elaborate here. Siemens, G.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 14, 2017

In the AITD’s discussion forum on LinkedIn, I asked my fellow members whether conferences were obsolete in the digital age. And if you publish your blog, you’ll be sharing something useful with the wider community. Extend your network. I love catching up with old friends as well as meeting new people at conferences.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 26, 2012

PDP-8/E minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1970. This oscilloscope is similar to the one that was used to demonstrate the world’s first computer game, Tennis for Two , at a US research lab in 1958. Ermeth electronic computer, Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology, 1956. Working memory: approx 80 KB.

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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. Here are my suggestions for getting it to boil… 1. Inform everyone of the official hashtag. So tell everyone up front what the official hashtag is.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

I had envisaged an arduous intellectual slog trying to convince my colleagues in the L&D team – let alone in the broader business – of the value of evolving our pedagogy to become more effective in the digital age; and of leveraging technology as an enabler of the outcome, rather than it being the outcome per se.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In this digital age, when convergence is inevitable, perhaps labels become inconsequential. (Besides, I don’t think linearity is necessarily a bad thing, so long as the learner is empowered to navigate as they please.). But it may just be semantics after all.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

In this digital era, we recognise that there’s simply too much knowledge to take in – and it changes too quickly anyway. As the learner acquires expertise, we must recognise that in this digital age, no one person can ever be expected to know it all. Fast forward to today and connectivism is all the rage.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Leading a Digital School Conference. SimTecT2015 – Asia-Pacific Simulation Training Conference. • Where: Adelaide. • When: 17-21 August 2015. • More info: Simulation Australasia. • Where: Melbourne. • When: 20-22 August 2015. • More info: iwbNet. LearnX 2015. • Where: Sydney.

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