E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

To me, 70:20:10 is not about engineering the perfect solution. Those who see L&D as the arbiter of all learning in the workplace may find all this overwhelming. But I see L&D as a support function. It’s about adding value to what already happens in our absence.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Of course they had no concept of jet engines, infrared sensors, the World Wide Web and smartphones. In each of the above examples, contemporary practice prejudiced the futurist’s expectations of future practice. They were wearing blinkers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 5, 2012

Linenger was sitting in a classroom, struggling to interpret both the Russian language and the technical complexity of the subject matter… My only saviour was oftentimes an outdated, hand-drawn engineering diagram hanging in the classroom beside the instructor’s blackboard … During many of my one-on-one lectures, I would block out (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 1, 2011

How about a brochure about becoming a cyber operations officer or a geomatics engineer or a cryptologic technician? They had brochures about becoming a soldier or a sailor or even a tradie – which is fine – but CeBIT is an expo for geeks. Chargebar – Running out of battery is no fun.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, I had taken pains to explain that I appreciate the challenges of this line of work, and that I was sharing my insider’s view to engineer a win-win outcome for all of us. But that didn’t happen. Evidently this was graciously received, as several people contacted me offline to thank me for my frankness.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

Encourage the manager to engineer opportunities for the trainee to put their learning into practice. To improve the effectiveness of your workshop even further, consider doing the following: Engage each trainee’s manager to act as their coach or mentor. These can form part of the assessment.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

If the cockpit had a scanner that required the pilot to swipe his finger, the computer could check his tin can to confirm he has acquired the relevant competencies at the required proficiencies before activating the engine. Or suppose you are meeting a financial advisor.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m so enamoured by eDNA that I urge the scientific community to give it a proper go before we “resurrect” the Tasmanian Tiger via Jurassic Park-style genetic engineering. I’d also be delighted to see it used in the hunt for big cats down under, if not to prove they exist, then to prove that they don’t.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 30, 2009

BJ offered Google as an example, which started as a search engine developed by a couple of college students. In his session The New World of Persuasive Technology , BJ noted that, when you consider the history of successful consumer Internet services, a striking similarity emerges: each one started in a small, focused way.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 18, 2016

For example, engineers preview the hazards of mining; electricians manipulate high-voltage switches; while someone I know in a rural fire service is looking into using 360° video to help volunteer firefighters get a sense of what to expect in a bushfire.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

If the cockpit had a scanner that required the pilot to swipe his finger, the computer could check his tin can to confirm he has acquired the relevant competencies at the required proficiencies before activating the engine. Or suppose you are meeting a financial advisor.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

Search engines allow the learner to follow their own trails of inquiry. For example: Discussion forums (synchronous or asynchronous) allow the learner to ask questions, clarify concepts and share experiences. Wikis act as non-linear knowledge banks to be mined as necessary.

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APRIL 2, 2017

It’s the type of thing at which engineers would annoyingly excel, while the rest of us infuriatingly fail. The other player(s) must relay the instructions in their bomb defusal manual to their friend so that he/she can defuse said bomb. The trouble is, the manual appears to have been written by a Bond villain.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 18, 2011

It wasn’t even a decade since Orville Wright managed to keep his engine-powered Wright Flyer in the air for 12 seconds. So declared General Ferdinand Foch in 1911, merely 3 years before the outbreak of World War I. To be fair, we shouldn’t forget the context in which the statement was uttered.

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JULY 9, 2017

Richard is the awkward brainiac behind a revolutionary data compression algorithm, and he employs a sardonic network engineer, Gilfoyle, and another nerdy coder, Dinesh, to help bring it to market. If you aren’t familiar with this series, the plot revolves around the trials and tribulations of a start-up called Pied Piper.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

It wasn’t even a decade since Orville Wright managed to keep his engine-powered Wright Flyer in the air for 12 seconds. So declared General Ferdinand Foch in 1911, merely 3 years before the outbreak of World War I. To be fair, we shouldn’t forget the context in which the statement was uttered.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 20, 2015

The makers of masterpieces such as Toy Story and The Lion King evidently couldn’t engineer a dinky little augmented reality app that would work on my device of choice – or even on my device of second choice. But Disney! How could Disney fail to bring Tinker Bell & Co to life?

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