E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Indeed, the Department of Education and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations have jointly released a consultation paper which advances the idea a smidgen more. A skills passport could combine a person’s qualifications across VET and higher education to more effectively demonstrate their skills to employers.”

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For instance, I recently called out the “captive audience” that characterises many of the experiments undertaken in the educational domain. Hence studies undertaken in the K12 or higher education sectors may not translate so well in the corporate sector, where the dynamics of the environment are different.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2021

Right, rather than waste my thought bubble, I’ve decided to reproduce the thrust of it here… The OP was about the future of Higher Education being modular and flexible, which I agreed with. As a bastion of education, the university is losing ground to external competitors. A later comment by someone else has.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In addition to my annual list of conferences in Australia for digital educators, I applied my cognitive surplus to another nine posts that dive deeper into the murky waters of meaning. When I pressed the Publish button on Roses are red , it capstoned a year of semantics for me which spilled over into this year.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 8, 2021

Just as the spacing effect can be employed to produce spaced block presentation : …so too can it be employed to produce spaced interleaved presentation (grouped) : …or spaced random interleaved presentation (grouped) : I use the qualifier “grouped” because, while that’s the traditional way of illustrating interleaving (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Our friends in vocational education have already this figured out. For example, if we refer to the Tap furnaces unit of competency documented by the Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment, we see elements such as Plan and prepare for furnace tapping and Tap molten metal from furnace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In Academic deflation I spot a trend in higher education. In Transformers I redefine training for a remote workforce. In More than just a pretty face I maintain a difference between certification badges and practitioner badges.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 25, 2019

The trail being blazed by the entertainment industry is being quickly followed by workplace educators. Some companies are also using AR to educate their customers. Some companies are also using AR to educate their customers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Since I’ve been blogging about the semantics of education lately, I thought it high time to dig a little deeper. In Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum , Dave similarly mentioned the abundance of content on the Internet, and also the shrinking half-life of knowledge. The Wikipedians are conducting rhizomatic education.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you’re aware of any other L&D conferences in Australia or New Zealand this year, please do let me know… Conference List The details of the following events may change, so best check the latest information on their websites!

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2021

In this broader sense it’s an umbrella term that may also cover andragogy – the teaching of adults – and heutagogy – self-determined learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The learnification of education. blogging e-learning education educational technology elearning learning thinking out loud TOL' Let’s get rid of the instructional designers! Let’s get rid of the instructors! The grassroots of learning. The relationship between learning and performance support. Merry Christmas!

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 2, 2013

.” …and… “I also suspect that traditional higher education providers will resist providing them because they don’t fit in with traditional academic perceptions of achievement and credentialing.” ” I wonder if these academics have consulted their own faculties of education?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 2, 2019

While educational, Hardcore History isn’t about education. What I love about Connie’s expertise is her focus on practicality. Thought leadership is great and all, but how do we apply it to our work? Hardcore History. Each episode spans several hours and frankly I could listen to Dan Carlin talk all day.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

All this got me thinking about the under-exploited role of comedy in education. But this post isn’t about the sociability of our continental cousins; it’s about e-learning – so I cornered CJ on the pretence of catching up for coffee and asked her the following questions: • Should comedy be used in education? (0:17).

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

They believe the new paradigm will democratise – and even revolutionise – education. I believe MOOCs will democratise education to some extent, and they will revolutionise the delivery of education. I happen to stand somewhere in the middle. I just don’t buy it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

And this will greatly affect in-person education and training. Organizations and institutions now need quick and creative solutions to be able to deliver online education and effectively compensate for the lack of interactions between instructors and students. ” Ger Driesen (The Netherlands).

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 3, 2023

Nor do I mean the heroes who disrupt the education of children. I don’t mean the type of person who leaks the diplomatic cables of the United States government (but curiously, not of the Russian or Ecuadorian governments). No – by “hacker” I mean the type of person who gets the job done, come hell or high water.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Back in the real world which recently declared Australia’s most educated generation faces the worst job prospects in decades , I wonder: is academic inflation undergoing a Sneetch-like reversal?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

What opportunities exist for workplace education? (6:14). Medical education has long been the poster boy of salivatingly engaging content, and the tradition continues with this emerging technology. Is augmented reality worth the hype? (3:54). What opportunities exist for the finance sector? (5:04).

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Don’t all these people deserve a better education? Moreover, I submit they are yet to wreak their full vengeance on the education industry. Again, this is already being considered by the American Council on Education. Consider the young woman in Indonesia who can’t afford college. Online cheating will mushroom.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2014

Australian Computers in Education Conference. conference 2014 Adelaide Asia Asia-Pacific Australia Brisbane Canberra e-learning education elearning event Gold Coast Melbourne PD professional development Sydney world' . • When: 25-28 August 2014. • More info: Simulation Australia. schoolstechOZ. • Where: Melbourne.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Don’t all these people deserve a better education? Moreover, I submit they are yet to wreak their full vengeance on the education industry. Again, this is already being considered by the American Council on Education. Consider the young woman in Indonesia who can’t afford college. Online cheating will mushroom.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 17, 2023

However, empirical research in the educational domain is usually based on what L&D pro’s with a dark sense of humour would call a “hostage situation” Whether it’s a high school exam, a university assessment, or perhaps a mandatory online module, the participants are compelled to participate.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 29, 2013

Quality content, for free, from some of the world’s most respected educational institutions? By educating them, you build up your goodwill and engender a sense of trust in your brand. More specifically, I recognise the following opportunities to leverage them in the workplace. Sourcing content. That’s a no-brainer.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

It’s a symptom of the way workplace education (and education more generally) has been administered over the years, and while I don’t blame people for thinking this way, I confess to being frustrated by the redundancy of it all. In other words, you wear your badges wherever you go. They are, after all, badges of honour.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2014

In educational situations, for example, the expert designer may analyse the target audience, identify their preferred learning styles, and perhaps run a pretest. User-design research, in Handbook of Research on Educational Communication and Technology , 2nd ed, D. User-centered design. & Savoy, M. Jonassen (Ed), pp.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The Future of Learning in Higher Education Summit. Special Education Technology Needs Conference. Social Media in Tertiary Education Conference. International Conference on Human Computing, Education and Information Management System. • Where: Sydney. • When: 16-17 February 2015. • More info: Informa.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 18, 2012

Last month I attended the Didacta education fair in Hannover, Germany. Five cavernous halls – each larger than several football fields – promoted the full gamut of the education sector: child care, primary school, high school, further education, workplace training and accreditation. It was MASSIVE.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

On the contrary, I think a Learning Management System is a valuable piece of educational technology – particularly in large organisations. This idea has taken the education world by storm, and some LMSs such as UpsideLMS have already integrated the API into their proprietary architecture.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2015

Click the image below to discover my Top 10 movers and shakers in the Asia-Pacific region… This is by no means an exhaustive list, but rather a hat tip to a small selection of generous education professionals who think out loud and work out loud. I learn so much from these people, and I dare say you will too.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

To avoid the formula trap, I decided against labelling each segment 70, 20 and 10, and instead chose their 3E equivalents of Experience, Exposure and Education. In the language of the framework, we are connecting education to experience, which in turn we connect to exposure. For this purpose I have created the following diagram.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 4, 2016

Connected Education Summit. Australian Council for Computers in Education Conference. . • When: 16 March 2016. • More info: LearnX. Digital Disruption X 2016. • Where: Sydney. • When: 12-23 March 2016. • More info: IQPC. • Where: Melbourne. • When: 19-20 April 2016. CeBIT Australia.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

. • Theme: Open educational resources. • Theme: Collaborate, innovate, educate. • More info: CORE Education. • More info: Academic Conferences International. LearnX Asia Pacific. • Where: Melbourne. • When: 29-30 August 2012. • More info: LearnX. • Where: Auckland.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2013

If you’ll be down under over the next 12 months, may I draw your attention to the following… ACE2013 – Australasian Computing Education Conference. THETA – The Higher Education Technology Agenda. That means it’s time to plan your next round of professional development events to attend.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

They believe the new paradigm will democratise – and even revolutionise – education. I believe MOOCs will democratise education to some extent, and they will revolutionise the delivery of education. I happen to stand somewhere in the middle. I just don’t buy it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I truly believe the flipped classroom is on the cusp of revolutionising the education sector. Notwithstanding the advantages of the three aforementioned classroom options, there is yet another option that is often ignored by educators: no classroom.

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