E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 4, 2023

I reminded myself of the skit as I ruminated over the ever-louder call in Organisational Development circles for a “skills-based learning” strategy. You may be forgiven for wondering: Isn’t all learning skills based? That’s not to say that knowledge-based learning is necessarily ineffective.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While much of Jane’s work exposes the difference between training and performance support – and implores us to do less of the former in favour of the latter – my post here does not. Instead, I intend to explore the relationship between learning and performance support , with the former considered in its informal context.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Compliance training is everyone’s favourite punching bag. Both are valid reasons to do compliance training, but they shouldn’t be our primary drivers. Even if you are devoid of ethics, another compelling argument exists in favour of compliance training: It makes business sense. Would you still support it?

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 31, 2020

That means while in-person classes can resume, remote learning will remain the staple. To innovate our way out of the underwhelming “new normal” and usher in the modern “next normal” In some cases that will mean pivoting away from training in favour of more progressive methodologies. There is no try.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2014

Learning Cafe Unconference. • More info: Learning Cafe. The Future of Learning Conference. Blended Learning Conference. • More info: Liquid Learning. • More info: Liquid Learning. Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference. Learning@Work. . • When: 11-13 February 2014.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 8, 2019

Micro-learning is so hot right now. Instead, I’m going to consider firstly how micro-learning might be used in a corporate training context; and secondly, pivot towards something slightly different. How micro-learning might be used. The nature of micro-learning lends itself to the campaign model.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In Not a cat I define what skills-based learning is by defining what it’s not. In The point of preference I temper the discourse about learning styles. In Ice cold I ask a question that gets our attendees talking and their heads in the game. In Rubber bands and chewing gum I celebrate the hackers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I found blogging a welcome distraction, so much so that in addition to my annual list of e-learning conferences in Australia (which took a beating!) In The next normal several of my peers and I anticipate the long-term nature of Learning & Development. In Transformers I redefine training for a remote workforce.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2013

Learning Cafe Unconference. • More info: Learning Cafe. E-Learning Summit. Simulation-Based Training. • More info: Liquid Learning. National Interactive Teaching and Learning Conference. SimTecT2013 – Asia-Pacific Simulation Training Conference. Australian eLearning Congress.

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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. It is indispensible for managing registrations, deploying e-learning, marking grades, recording completion statuses, centralising performance agreements and documenting performance appraisals.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 18, 2012

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. • Online training delivery. • Learning Management Systems. • Interactive whiteboards.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 10, 2012

Learn a language. Now YOU are the one on a steep learning curve. But in no uncertain terms I reminded myself of what works and what doesn’t in the learning process. All those fundamental pedagogical principles that had faded into the background came flooding back with avengeance… Instructivism and formal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 1, 2015

So it was with much gratitude that I read The Science of Training and Development in Organizations: What Matters in Practice. The ones that I would recommend to my fellow learning pro’s. On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing Just One. Industrial and Commercial Training , 36(7), pp. Siemens, G.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2020

While many of us had been offering online courses and other alternatives to in-person training for years, suddenly nothing could be run in a traditional classroom setting; and so as a collective we’ve been forced to shift learning and development online. Or maybe I’m being too quick to judge.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Compliance training is everyone’s favourite punching bag. Both are valid reasons to do compliance training, but they shouldn’t be our primary drivers. Even if you are devoid of ethics, another compelling argument exists in favour of compliance training: It makes business sense. Would you still support it?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 3, 2023

Which, I’m sorry to concede, does not represent everyone in the Learning & Development profession. Over the course of my career, I’ve witnessed a lot of talk among my peers about what should and shouldn’t be done to improve learning outcomes and hence business performance… but not a lot of action.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 1, 2024

Australian Tertiary and VET Conference Sydney, 6-8 March 2024 International Conference on Education, Learning and Training Auckland, 7-8 March 2024 International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations Melbourne, 14-16 March 2024 iDESIGNX Sydney, 20 March 2024 L&D Leadership Summit Melbourne, 30-31 May 2024 Learning and Development (..)

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

One of my peers in Australia, Arun Pradhan , is developing an app to help us learn smarter, faster and deeper. In your working life, how have you learned effectively from experience, please provide an example if possible? When I first got into e-learning, it was all very new for everyone.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 31, 2022

Despite the prevailing rhetoric for the Learning & Development function to be “data driven”, data for the purposes of evaluating what we do is notoriously hard to come by. Typically we collect feedback from happy sheets (which I prefer to call unhappy sheets ) and confirm learning outcomes via some form of assessment.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 1, 2021

An organisation that trained its people face-to-face in the classroom may very well have recognised the future need for virtual training. In contrast, another organisation that also trained its people in the classroom started to diversify its approach by offering some of its training virtually.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 29, 2012

This notion resonated with me when a fellow learning professional asked me what I do in my capacity as an E-Learning Manager. The thing is, the role of “E-Learning Manager” (ELM) is a grey one. • Training needs analysis. • Training and coaching. • Training and coaching.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 14, 2020

That’s how much the spend on leadership training by American corporations grew over the preceding 15 years, according to Kaiser and Curphy in their 2013 paper Leadership development: The failure of an industry and the opportunity for consulting psychologists. Despite the billions of dollars’ worth of training invested in them.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 16, 2012

Since there are literally scores of bloggers who might fit this bill, I have decided to narrow down my criteria to Australian bloggers who write predominantly about e-learning (or something related). Alison Bickford – Alison is an e-learning consultant with loads of experience in the government and corporate sectors.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

There are two sides of the innovation coin in corporate learning & development: technology and pedagogy. Traditional ways of learning in the workplace are, by definition, ingrained in the psyche of the vast majority of the workforce. The former is rather obvious and is often conflated with the term innovation.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In my own role, though, I could see what Jim couldn’t: the incoming wave of e-learning. Sooner rather than later, it was clear to me that not all our training was to be delivered to everyone in the same room at the same time. Hence ongoing employability demands lifelong learning to continue to do what other people can’t.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you’ll be in my corner of the globe over the next 12 months, may I draw your attention to the following… Learning Cafe Unconference. • Theme: Near future of learning in Australia. • More info: Learning Cafe. • Theme: Designing instructionally sound and engaging learning. CeBIT Australia.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2021

We may alternately use pedagogy to mean the general approach to teaching and learning. In this broader sense it’s an umbrella term that may also cover andragogy – the teaching of adults – and heutagogy – self-determined learning. Thus it aligns to the learning nature of andragogy.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 27, 2011

Is there a difference between learning and development? I ruminated over this question for a number of years as a Learning & Development professional, but without much progress. I think it’s fair to say most L&D professionals focus their energy in the L space: • Classroom-based training. • Job aids.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 3, 2011

She authors the blog Wishful thinking in medical education , which she uses to advance thinking about the training of student doctors. Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE).

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As to their decency, I’ll let you be the judge… In Not our job I proposed we Learning & Development professionals defend our remit. In Supercharge your digital training I proposed three ways to transform online delivery. In The right stuff I proposed we recruit an evaluation specialist.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

Over the course of my career, I’ve witnessed a slow but steady shift away from formal learning to informal learning. Of course, remnants of the “formal first” philosophy still exist, whereby every conceivable problem is attempted to be fixed by a training solution, typically in the form of a course.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

and The ILE and the FLE in harmony , I advocate the development of a virtual Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with the Formal Learning Environment (FLE) to support both the learning process and its administration. Informal learning. I believe in the power of informal learning. Formal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

In the global game of Corporate Bingo, the term “adult learning principles&# must be one of the most abused. But what exactly are adult learning principles? Malcolm Knowles is widely regarded as the father of adult learning. Adults bring experience with them to the learning environment. The theory. The real world.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Here we go again with another round of awesome PD opportunities for e-learning professionals in the land down under! While not all of these conferences focus purely on e-learning, the observant among us will discover components of interest. The Future of Learning in Higher Education Summit. The Learning Assembly Australia.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 27, 2014

This one goes out to all the L&D folk who are wary of the “I haven’t been trained” excuse. informal learning motivation attitude autodidacticism autodidactism cartoon excuse Facebook funny humor humour learning pull self-directed learning teaching training'

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 13, 2013

Learning Cafe Unconference. • More info: Learning Cafe. E-Learning Summit. Simulation-Based Training. • More info: Liquid Learning. Enterprise Learning Innovation Summit. • More info: Liquid Learning. National Interactive Teaching and Learning Conference. EduTECH 2013.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 22, 2014

Notwithstanding either the validity or the importance of our concerns with UGC, the traditional training model is becoming increasingly unsustainable in the modern workplace. Ron has made sure that there is a comprehensive training program to cover all aspects of the job. My part comprised a proposed solution to a fictional caselet.

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