Rob Hubbard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As well as being a songwriter and musician, he is now also a writer, film director, choreographer, product designer, visual artist and more. David Byrne is a bit of a hero of mine. He was the lead singer of the art-school punk band Talking Heads, which he founded in 1976.

Courseware 56

Courseware Director Instructional Design Alternatives 56

Rob Hubbard

JANUARY 13, 2016

By Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. A few weeks ago I attended a fabulous workshop by Sally Spinks from Ideo. If you haven’t heard of them before, they are a design consultancy headquartered in California but with offices throughout the world. We have a bit of an organisational crush on them if we’re honest.

Digital 40

Digital Lesson Design Low Cost 40

Rob Hubbard

JUNE 7, 2016

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. Traditional economics is based on the assumption that humans are rational beings, that we evaluate our situation in a logical way, making decisions based on cost- benefit analyses.

Cognitive 40

Cognitive Simulations Design Guide 40

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 13, 2016

By Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. If we’re honest, no one really likes just being told stuff. Cast your mind back to the last conference you attended. I bet there were some sessions where the speak er was just speaking at the audience, where you perfected your doodling, caught up on your emails or drifted off entirely.

Learner 40

Learner Agile Director Trust 40

Rob Hubbard

JULY 13, 2016

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. The UK’s recent referendum on whether we should stay in the EU produced a shock result that has led to political and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale. The VUCA acronym (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) has never felt more apt in this country.

Agile 40

Agile Attitudes Director Library 40

Rob Hubbard

JANUARY 27, 2017

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. Why oh why is The Towards Maturity benchmark report – Unlocking Potential – such depressing reading each year!

Agile 40

Agile eLearning Consultant Performance Support Network 40

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 13, 2015

By Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. Lately I have been spending a lot of time on Webflow, a responsive site builder, redesigning our company website.

Culture 40

Culture Design Embed Site 40

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 12, 2015

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. These days it’s widely accepted that learners don’t really learn much from just sitting passively in front of a screen.

Interactive 40

Interactive Compliance Training eLearning Lecture 40

Rob Hubbard

MAY 24, 2013

by Tess Robinson, Director, LearningAge Solutions. For me it conjures up images of acrobats and contortionists.

Agile 61

Agile Business IBM Predictions 61

Rob Hubbard

JANUARY 28, 2016

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. Our MD recently won an Outstanding Contribution award and was named as one of the Top 10 eLearning Movers and Shakers in the UK for 2016.

eLearning 40

eLearning Skype Director vendor 40

Rob Hubbard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Guest post from my LearningAge co-director, Tess Robinson… Have the right attitude. Open your mind to all kinds of weird and wonderful possibilities. Don’t discount anything at first. Creativity is impossible to achieve if you are not brave enough to look beyond your normal paradigms. Give yourself time.

Music 66

Music Storyboard Attitudes Pattern 66

Rob Hubbard

DECEMBER 10, 2015

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. The latest Towards Maturity benchmark report makes rather depressing reading.

Digital 40

Digital Social Networks eLearning Consultant eLearning Strategy 40

Rob Hubbard

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

by Tess Robinson, Director, LearningAge Solutions. ‘I I absolutely loath elearning with all of my being. I just spent 1hr 40 answering stupid F-ing multiple choice questions in the attempt to gain a poxy bit of paper for work and the blinking site crashed.

Virtual Classroom 94

Virtual Classroom Social Networks Corporate eLearning Simulations 94

Rob Hubbard

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Guest post from my LearningAge Co-Director, Tess Robinson. We’ve all been there – the corporate induction that involves eight hours of PowerPoint, form filling and reading manual after manual of processes and procedures. Did it make us feel engaged, enthused and wanted?

Blended Learning 58

Blended Learning Blended Wiki Information Overload 58

Rob Hubbard

MARCH 7, 2016

by Tess Robinson, Director, LAS. I am trying to teach myself to paint with acrylics at the moment. I have a definite idea in my head of what my paintings should look like, but with no painting experience, they don’t exactly come out like that when translated to canvas. It’s very frustratin g!

Design 40

Design Music Learning Standards 40

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 14, 2015

by Tess Robinson, Director LAS. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ” — Albert Einstein. Our youngest son (7) is the very definition of curious. Every day is a barrage of questions: “Can anything happen in a nanosecond?”

Scanning 40

Scanning Brain Study Research 40

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The highlights for me were the talks by Lance Weiler – award winning writer/director and the man behind the Workbook Project website, Tommy Pallotta producer of A Scanner Darkly and Mike Monello who worked on the Blair Witch Project, arguably the birth of transmedia.

Case Study 49

Case Study Instructional Design Guidelines Courseware 49

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 8, 2013

By Tess Robinson, Director, LearningAge Solutions. Technology now affords so many more options to learn new skills without being physically present, but how can we ensure that participants are kept engaged and motivated when they’re not sat in front of us?

Distance Learning 67

Distance Learning Wiki Collaboration Learning 67

Rob Hubbard

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Director, L earningAge Solutions). by Tess Robinson. So goal-based learning sounds great but what can you use it for? And how can technology augment this way of learning? Performance support. Learning shouldn’t stop when a learner leaves the classroom.

Compliance Training 93

Compliance Training Blended Learning Performance Support Compliance 93

Rob Hubbard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

There wasn’t a single ego on set and it was fascinating to see the way the Director, Director of Photography and Art Director worked together to get the shots they needed. Everyone I met was friendly, professional and really easy to get on with.

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Camera Photography Director Budget 49

Rob Hubbard

APRIL 3, 2014

by Tess Robinson, Director, LearningAge Solutions. I have to admit that if you say ‘gaming’ to me, it still immediately brings up images of spotty youths barricaded in their bedrooms, slowly developing RSI in their thumbs from their controllers. If you look at the basic principles, it isn’t really anything particularly new.

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Games Simulations Gamification Virtual World 45