E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

Many have had previous jobs in the industry or in other industries, and so they arrive armed with transferable knowledge, skills and experiences. – but I counter that assumption on two fronts. Firstly, not all new starters are doe-eyed college grads. And regardless, the informal first philosophy holds true.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

At the organisational level, the capabilities that drive success are strikingly similar across companies, sectors and industries. If you are building, launching or managing your organisation’s capabilities, I invite you to consider my 7 tips for custodians of capability frameworks… 1. Leverage like a banker.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 24, 2011

Social Media Marketing Industry Report. So here are 20 suggestions… Face to face. Social Media Club. Fiskateers. Bubble O’Bill. • 7 Australian Social Media Examples & Case Studies. State of the Blogosphere. Social Media 101. Socialnomics. • The New Rules of Marketing and PR. • The Corporate Blogging Book. Social Media Today.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 4, 2018

This Australian agency creates virtual tours and visualisations for the mining, architecture and tourism industries. A product manager in the medical industry created a WebVR experience to promote the hi-tech material in her range of surgical gowns. Have you ever wondered how a self-driving car senses the world around it?

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 8, 2015

– The future of our industry according to yours truly. The definition of Enterprise Social Network – An esoteric joke. The joy of UX – My second dabble with augmented reality. Where is L&D heading? The caveat of content curation – Not everything is googleable.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 19, 2011

In fact, over the years in a range of jobs across several industries, not to mention my time in high school and university, I have been subjected to countless multiple-choice quizzes. So poorly, in fact, it’s embarrassing. At my workplace, I am regularly subjected to the multiple-choice quiz.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 14, 2017

But who was I to teach my peers in the industry how to suck eggs? After agonising over the problem for almost a full minute, it dawned on me that the immediate relevance of PKM to the conference attendees lay in how they were going to make the most out of said conference. In other words, I crowdsourced the content.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 1, 2013

I also like meeting new people in the industry and re-connecting with those whom I already know. Whenever I do attend, however, I enjoy hearing and seeing what other people have to say and show, because they validate my own ideas, introduce new ideas, and spark tangential ideas.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

Allow me to elaborate my argument in the context of the financial services industry. Industry conferences and other external events. Why haven’t constructivism and connectivism blown it out of the water? The answer, I believe, is because instructivism remains relevant. The three amigos.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We in the L&D industry tend to believe (or want to believe) that our target audience is just like us. However, I can also see that if an employer found itself in court because one of its employees sexually harassed one of his colleagues, it would want to demonstrate that it had provided sufficient training to that individual.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

And that, of course, includes our financial services industry. And yet I suggest that open badges have more powerful potential still. To put this into context, let me first explain that Australia is one of the most regulated nations on earth.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

The importance of this factor is unsurprising, given the effectiveness of WOM in the marketing industry. These enthusiastic users encourage the use of Yammer with their colleagues across the business. Employees presumably trust their team mates more than they do HR, IT, or whoever “owns” Yammer in the workplace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 21, 2016

In any case, I learned a great deal about virtual reality via the event, and I’m glad to have raised my awareness of the following real-world applications across multiple industries, including sports, entertainment, healthcare, education, workplace training, and non-profit.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 2, 2017

And while I eventually left the science industry, I consider myself extremely fortunate to have studied the discipline because it has been the backbone of my career. After much dilly dallying, I eventually drew upon my nerdy interest in science and my idealistic zeal for conservation and applied for a BSc.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

Worse still, the examples highlighted by Infosys’s whitepaper are almost exclusively home finders and ATM locators, which means they’ve merely copied each other.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 1, 2011

The implications for the gaming industry are obvious, but given you can also move a robotic car attached to the computer, the broader potential is mind boggling. The punter who was doing the training exercise couldn’t get the little box to move on the screen. They are also working on a wireless version.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Promote industry conferences and other external events. For example, “this website contains full-text copies of the legislation that governs the financial services industry&# ; “this wiki hosts our product information&# ; “this news feed informs you of our daily interest rates&#.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2013

You see, when you have been in the e-learning game for as long as I have, you learn a few things that a surprising number of my peers in the broader L&D industry don’t know – or perhaps don’t want to know! It’s that I knew it would. This insight bubbled to the surface during my little m-course experiment.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 26, 2017

I found this surprising as the basics of the employee experience – and the HR functions that correspond to them – are arguably similar across jobs, organisations and industries. Moreover, some of the models I found were either overly complicated (in my opinion) or they were presented in an illogical manner.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 1, 2015

Industrial and Commercial Training , 36(7), pp. The latter metaphor reminds me that learning is not about the consumption of information; it’s about making sense. Cook‐Greuter, S. Making the case for a developmental perspective.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 12, 2014

Emancipatory design is founded on issues of conflict and harmony in the disciplines of social economics and industrial relations. Instead of having a system imposed on them, the users have truly designed it for themselves, according to their own, independent design decisions.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Moreover, I submit they are yet to wreak their full vengeance on the education industry. Love them or loathe them, xMOOC or cMOOC, the fact remains: MOOCs have arrived, and they are here to stay. When I look into my crystal ball, I foresee that MOOCs will rock our world, and they will do so in 15 ways… 1.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 12, 2014

We share knowledge on Twitter, contribute to discussions on LinkedIn, read books, write blogs, comment on blogs, subscribe to industry magazines, share links to online articles, watch videos, and participate in MOOCs. This is a point that I fear many of our peers fail to grasp. You see, we love learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Moreover, I submit they are yet to wreak their full vengeance on the education industry. Love them or loathe them, xMOOC or cMOOC, the fact remains: MOOCs have arrived, and they are here to stay. When I look into my crystal ball, I foresee that MOOCs will rock our world, and they will do so in 15 ways… 1.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

The importance of this factor is unsurprising, given the effectiveness of WOM in the marketing industry. These enthusiastic users encourage the use of Yammer with their colleagues across the business. Employees presumably trust their team mates more than they do HR, IT, or whoever “owns” Yammer in the workplace.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 10, 2010

It’s not just a pretty trophy to sit on my desk; it’s the validation of my instructional design by my peers in the industry. That’s why I’m so pleased to claim this award.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2012

This list “is compiled on the basis of a person’s perceived current influence on the e-learning industry – as a practitioner, commentator, facilitator and/or thought leader.” Earlier this year I was honoured to scrape into Bob Little’s Asia-Pacific’s list of e-learning movers and shakers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 18, 2009

And yet more could be done in other industry sectors. In this case we chose Borneo Orangutan Survival , and the corporation dollar-matched our individual contributions. I’m sure there’s hundreds of other things we could do, both as corporations and individuals. All we need is some imagination. The thin green line.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Placebo - It’s well known in the pharmaceutical industry that patients in a clinical trial who are given a sugar pill rather than the drug being tested sometimes get better. In other words, everything except participation in the training program must be more-or-less the same between the two groups.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 18, 2009

Instead, I tweet about the enlightening article I found on the web, or the informative video clip that I watched on YouTube, and I follow others in my industry who do the same. I don’t bother tweeting that I’m having a cup of coffee on Bondi Beach – who cares! It’s an international CoP hosted by the Twittersphere.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2012

This list “is compiled on the basis of a person’s perceived current influence on the e-learning industry – as a practitioner, commentator, facilitator and/or thought leader.” Earlier this year I was honoured to scrape into Bob Little’s Asia-Pacific’s list of e-learning movers and shakers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 17, 2009

But they could also… Catch the breaking news in their industry sector. Sure, they could download the latest song by Britney Spears or peruse the latest gossip on the Perez Hilton blog. Read blogs. Explore wikis. Exchange knowledge on Twitter. Watch vodcasts. Complete online courses. Participate in discussion forums.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Placebo - It’s well known in the pharmaceutical industry that patients in a clinical trial who are given a sugar pill rather than the drug being tested sometimes get better. In other words, everything except participation in the training program must be more-or-less the same between the two groups.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2011

Amused by our industry’s obsession with single letter prefixes, I replied facetiously that I preferred the term slearning – simply because it sounds so awful. It all started with a tweet by Anne Bartlett-Bragg ( @AnneBB ) observing an instance of the term s-learning representing social learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 15, 2010

The secularisation of government and industry (at least in the West) has promoted the suppression and exclusion of anything remotely related to religion, including spirituality. Of course we are human, and that means every single one of us brings our personal beliefs, goals, needs and values into the workplace. Yet we are human.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Our role was to share our perspectives of e-learning in the industry sector with the conference delegates, hopefully sharing some knowledge, experiences and ideas that can cross over into vocational education. Emerging issues. For me, one of the major emerging issues in both sectors is the rise of Web 2.0.

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