From the Coleface

MARCH 3, 2014

Asking the right questions to uncover the information you need. Deducing what the right answer is from limited information. ” But that’s a story for another day… accountancy e-learning legal' Selecting things and putting them in the right order. Accurately sorting things between different categories.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 29, 2012

For months I’ve been immersed in the zone where marketing and learning overlap – helping marketers become as confident and astute with digital media as they are with traditional media. And where two fields of expertise overlap there’s learning to be had… here’s 5 points to start with: . Brand is all important.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Next week I’ll be presenting at the eLearning Network on best practices for using audio in e-learning. One of the greatest advances since I was at university is Google, so I started by trying to answer three questions: Is e-learning with audio more effective than e-learning without audio?

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Most discussion has focused on which parts of the formal F2F learning experience can be replicated using other digital channels e.g. virtual classroom. The opportunity to meet counterparts from other offices (and sometimes countries) in an informal setting – spontaneous networking without the cringe factor.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I’ve enjoyed reading Nick Shackleton-Jones’s book “How people learn” and a subsequent talk by him. Whilst emotion is powerful for memory, there are other types of meaningful that make a difference eg linkages and connections, information being presented in a coherent way, mnemonics, the generation effect (eg DeWinstanley and Bjork [link] ).

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2009

An interesting day at the eLearning Network on 25 Sept where the focus was Learning Management Systems. Users will increasingly demand the ability to personalise how information is presented to them, download widgets and customise the types of information that their employer is pushing at them.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The last 20 years has seen the evolution of terminology from Computer-Based Learning to e-learning to digital learning (and beyond). Personally, I’m grateful to have worked with many brilliant experts and valued learning from them the ‘tricks of many trades’ to co-create learning experiences.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 25, 2013

Just when you thought you had enough e-learning buzzwords, curation came along. ” Content curation evolved as a digital marketing discipline to enhance search engine optimisation and then crossed over into the learning space. .” The basic hurdle for digital content is to be at least two out of useful, informative and fun.

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From the Coleface

APRIL 28, 2008

So how can this inform compliance e-learning? Although it’s far too early to tell whether Wii Fit will have an impact on the nation’s wellbeing, it’s worth pausing to think how many of the above ingredients you have incorporated into your compliance e-learning.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 22, 2014

How easy is it to find the information that you need for your job within your organisation? Probably a lot more difficult and frustrating than using a search engine to find public information…. paying for off-site training or increasing the immersiveness and media treatment in e-learning). Compliance? And what was the password?…).

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From the Coleface

MAY 15, 2008

the idea that the web increasingly allowing 2 way communication, rather than being a 1 way publishing of information). Technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites and YouTube allow us to re-examine the way people learn in organisations. There’s an increasing amount being written about Web 2.0 (the

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

As was revealed last Friday at the e-learning Network, vast numbers of free e-learning tools are available. For some of the most popular tools see Jane Hart’s Directory of Learning Tools. If there are all these great free tools, why are cost-conscious firms not adopting them faster?

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From the Coleface

JULY 10, 2007

Still musing on the ELN Showcase back on 6 July about what clients are prepared to pay for when it comes to commissioning e-learning. The designer of the course ascribed this success to it being a “bog standard e-learning course, but well communicated” So how come this e-learning was so successful?

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From the Coleface

MARCH 24, 2008

The National Academy of Engineering of the USA’s National Science Foundation, has released 14 “Great Challenges” , which includes a focus on “Advancing Personalized Learning” and others such as making solar power economical. which appear to be empowering learners to get more personalized learning.

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From the Coleface

JULY 17, 2007

If a training identifies that learners need some learning content, it typically goes through the following process. Yes: Comission e-learning. No: Leave it to Nellie (informal/ on the job learning). Of course none of the enlightened L&D professionals reading this would think so simply. No: Go to Q2.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 4, 2014

Learners are used to compliance e-learning. I’ll recap some of the pros and cons of including a real life story in your e-learning. e-learning is for internal use within your organisation. Your people are already trusted to handle plenty of confidential information, why would you not trust them with this?

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” His premise is that if you leave information out of a visual, or deliberately reverse the letters in a word so that the learner has to work out what the correct message is, they are more likely to engage with it and remember it. The longer the course/ module the more that learners will get bored and frustrated by devices like this.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 24, 2013

It’s a hassle to click between two screens and type in the information, so it’s great to see that people have identified this as an insight and done something about it. Have you used to technology to help free up their attention so that they can focus on the key learning points? Though the technology for sending iCalendar files (.ics)

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From the Coleface

MARCH 19, 2019

Here I share some reflections on what I learned along the journey to expert performance and how they are useful for L&D. . Chess is a game with almost perfect information – you and your opponent can see everything on the board. Last year I briefly made it into the UK top 200 at chess. I attribute this to three main hacks.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 24, 2008

and its impact on learning. The trend away from centralised information to collective information will have a significant impact on business leaders, L&D departments and learners. With the vast range of learning resources and communities available, learners will have far more consumer choice. A fascinating day.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

But in the world of learning, is this all about loss of powerbases or is it a genuine worry about quality? The production technology for e-learning is getting cheaper and more widely distributed. Will the quality of learning produced be comparable to previous good practice? Will I still have a job left?

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Learners want learning in short chunks that fits in with their workflow. In-Focus: Driving the New Learning Organisation p24 (Towards Maturity, May 2017). Learners generally do want to learn (much of this activity may be invisible to L&D). Online learning offers the opportunity to learn at point of need.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As someone who enjoys reducing information overload and making complex topics more meaningful and accessible, I’ve enjoyed browsing my way through two coffee table books which show the power of infographics: David McCandless’ Information is beautiful and Simon Rogers’ Facts are sacred. e-learning'

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