When I start working with organizations, I like to take some time to meet with the employees. find that listening to how they describe their own organization — its values, behaviors, and attitudes — often shows more about the company’s real culture than anything the management says. And one of the best indicators of an organization’s culture is its attitude toward learning and development. These are the organizations I find tend to be more progressive, optimistic, and focused on solutions. In my first book, Fire Up! Clearly defined ethical standards and expectations. MORE >>

by Kevin Siegel    Last week I wrote about how you can  save and share effects  you've added to the Effects panel (so the effects can be used in other projects or by other developers). I'd like to stick with the Effects theme for another week. If  If you've used the Effects panel, there's a good chance that you've missed a useful feature--it's often overlooked by even veteran developers. However, you won't see any effects, videos or slide animations, which kind of renders  Play this slide  useless. But even better. MORE >>

Not so much about Moodle in this blog post, but of equal importance materials that you can use as part of your course. If like myself you make use of YouTube videos in your lectures and classes, then I feel certain that you will have come across the Ted Talks , so I was really very pleasantly surprised when the other day I discovered Ted Ed lessons worth sharing. Essentially these are a collection of Ted Talk videos that have been ready packaged with quiz style questions, a Think section for open answer type responses and a Dig Deeper area for any further resources. Regards MORE >>

From watching the great talk from Sir Ken Robinson on “Changing Education Paradigms” I recently found this talk from Dan Pink that “illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.” ” Watching this helped me realise a similarity between the reward mechanism that is sometimes offered to employees and the reward (grade) offered to students from their assessment. What if we could get students working like this? Let them produce anything, within a given framework (Atlassian define the business need as this criteria) and. MORE >>

Are Your Learners Disengaged? It’s true: no one likes being forced to do anything. L&D professionals have the tough task of taking job related information and making it easy to learn while appeasing all the appropriate company stakeholders. Budgets are shrinking and the ubiquity of “rapid authoring tools” is making it more and more tempting to churn out eLearning in-house that is cost-effective and easy to produce. Once the learner has judged that your training is not worthwhile, you have lost them. To-do lists: We all have a long one. MORE >>