E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 14, 2017

When I was invited to kick off last week’s AITD National Conference by hosting a breakfast session about Personal Knowledge Management, the last thing I wanted to do was deliver a traditional presentation. Given the massive scope of PKM, I needed to narrow my focus.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Given a competency is a task, a capability is a personal attribute you draw upon to perform it. Meeting a competency therefore is binary: either you can perform the task successfully (you are “competent”) or you can not (in the positive parlance of educationalists, you are “not yet competent”). Capability.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A skills passport could combine a person’s qualifications across VET and higher education to more effectively demonstrate their skills to employers.” For example, “Stakeholders have long called for the creation of a tool to help Australians demonstrate their qualifications to prospective employers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 1, 2024

I wouldn’t dare suggest he was wrong; it’s just a matter of personal proclivity. That sounds a lot like technical skills to me. In Figure 1 of his article he also combines core/technical skills!

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 6, 2020

I also advocate the following… Resist asking the participants to hand their feedback to you in person; or worse, share it aloud. You don’t get much more environmental than shelter and sustenance, so why not turn the dial and mix up the menu? Allow the participants to submit their feedback anonymously.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2015

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 3, 2016

I see re-doing my compliance training as a problem, not just because it’s an inconvenience for me personally, but also because the financial services sector alone employs half a million people in Australia. If I’m compliant at Bank A, odds are I’m compliant at Bank B as well.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 7, 2022

Using the ADDIE model as a guide, that same person might also attend to Analysis (so a better job title might be L&D Analyst) while other specialists focus on Design, Development and Implementation. How that will manifest, I don’t know (although I do have some ideas).

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

The informal first philosophy balances the pendulum by empowering the employee to self-direct their learning in accordance with their personal needs. Personally I consider the maturity curve a journey. While in some cases informal learning obviates the need for training, in other cases it will complement it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Core component #3: Personal profiles. The tertiary component of my ILE is a bank of personal profiles. wikis instructional design implementation pedagogy LMS assessment informal learning environment ILE FLE formal learning environment social learning discussion forums personal profiles learning management system competencies.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 20, 2010

It adopts the user’s personal POV. In light of the above criteria, I recognise two types of augmented reality: Type I Augmented Reality (AR1), whereby the artificial imagery is layered over the background from the personal POV in real-time; and. New criteria. It’s a recording.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 31, 2020

That means while in-person classes can resume, remote learning will remain the staple. I feel this is important to point out because the genie is out of the bottle. Employee surveys reveal that the majority of us either don’t want to return to the office, or we’ll want to split our working week at home.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The model is similar to a flipped classroom, but there is no in-person follow-up. I truly believe the flipped classroom is on the cusp of revolutionising the education sector. Then deploy it to your audience, so they are empowered to watch it when convenient, pause, fast-forward, rewind, and even play it again later. And you know what?

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 16, 2011

It holds that on average, anyone is only 6 personal relationships away from anyone else. For the theory to hold up, I must be only 6 Facebook users away from the Material Girl, and thereby be able to engineer a personal introduction. This got me thinking, are all these people really “connected&# …? Take Madonna for example.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I’ve always been the type of person who likes to work out how to do something hands-on, so I can talk about it with confidence. I can honestly say I’ve never suffered from imposter syndrome.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

A person’s respect for Klout is directly proportional to their Klout Score.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 22, 2011

I was ruminating over this when it dawned on me: why not divide the number of followers by the number of years the person has been on the platform? Sure, the quality of your tweets and other variables will have an effect, but simply comparing the raw number of followers among tweeps is not really comparing apples with apples.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The film paints a dystopian vision of the future whereby everyone’s personal details are stored in an online grid, which is controlled of course by the government. For example, the pilot could key in his personal credentials, or you could key in the financial advisor’s agency code.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 26, 2018

” I initially titled my blog Ryan 2.0 – hence the URL – because “on a personal level, it represents my next big step in our evolving participatory culture. learning, to explore new tools and technologies, and to highlight trends and changing behaviours in the online world.” Just as the shift from Web 1.0

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Recruiting the right person for the role in the first place! . …not to mention one of my favourites offered by Joyce Seitzinger in the aforementioned Ozlearn chat: @ ryantracey @ ActivateLearn agree. performance starts at hiring process. and often disconnected.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 7, 2012

a fraudster in your admin team re-routes payments to his personal bank account? a perfectly qualified and experienced job applicant is rejected on the basis of her skin colour? absenteeism goes through the roof because the young ladies in the office are avoiding a sleazy manager?

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 5, 2010

As Steve Farnsworth observes: Is it worth being provocative, creative, or interesting and possibly offending one person in a 100 so you can speak with the other 99? Besides, even popular bloggers attract patronising comments, rock throwers and trolls. Yes, it is. At least I haven’t been called a douchebag.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Personal applications. By “personal&# , I mean you using Twitter for your own professional purposes. Some of the ideas specifically relate to e-learning, while others may fall more comfortably into other portfolios. In a nutshell, I see the business applications of Twitter falling into three main categories: 1.

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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.” For example, an individual respondent might be prejudiced, or parochial, or insular, or driven by a personal crusade.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In other words, I completed the course as far as my personal learning needs are concerned, while still feeding the naysayers’ MOOCs-are-a-failure-because-their-completion-rate-is-low argument. I use the term completed loosely, because while I consumed all the content, I didn’t submit any of the assignments.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2011

LinkedIn even tells you “Invitations should only be sent to people you know personally&#. I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. …if we’ve never met. Take the hint. Dear Twitter. Twitter isn’t the Batcomputer. It’s a bunch of people, many of whom would be delighted to help you.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

A person’s respect for Klout is directly proportional to their Klout Score.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 18, 2016

could experience our flagship store in-person. Finally, but no less importantly, virtual reality can foster empathy by putting you in another person’s shoes. This strategic imperative relates to the overarching transformation of our organisation, so it’d be great if all our employees (and prospective customers!)

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 26, 2012

The first personal computer with a fully assembled circuit board to which a keyboard and display unit could be attached. PDP-8/E minicomputer, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1970. At less than $20,000, the PDP-8 series was the first that medium-sized organisations could afford to purchase. Apple-1, Apple Computer Company, 1976.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

The model is similar to a flipped classroom, but there is no in-person follow-up. I truly believe the flipped classroom is on the cusp of revolutionising the education sector. Then deploy it to your audience, so they are empowered to watch it when convenient, pause, fast-forward, rewind, and even play it again later. And you know what?

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The film paints a dystopian vision of the future whereby everyone’s personal details are stored in an online grid, which is controlled of course by the government. For example, the pilot could key in his personal credentials, or you could key in the financial advisor’s agency code.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 7, 2012

a fraudster in your admin team re-routes payments to his personal bank account? a perfectly qualified and experienced job applicant is rejected on the basis of her skin colour? absenteeism goes through the roof because the young ladies in the office are avoiding a sleazy manager?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 18, 2009

My initial reply was… Twitter is a personal message board…? But then David me asked a probing follow-up question… yes, it can be used as personal message board, but is that good for education when we have a VLE for that kind of activity? Personally, I find Twitter indispensable for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

So from the get-go you’re not my favourite person right now. If I decline to meet you, don’t take it personally – Maybe it’s not the right time, or we simply don’t need what you’re offering. The least you can do is ask me if I have a few minutes to spare.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I dedicate this one to Jane Hart whom I was delighted to meet in-person in Sydney last month. This post is the third in a series in which I deliberate over the semantics of education. Jane is a renowned advocate of performance support in the workplace, and I wonder what she’ll make of my latest musing.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

A bank of personal profiles. Not only do I believe in the right of the learner to keep their PLE strictly personal, but I also believe in the power of separating “learning&# from its administration. An ILE is a space that centralises tools and resources that the learner can use to drive their own development.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

As the learner acquires expertise, we must recognise that in this digital age, no one person can ever be expected to know it all. In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Social bookmarks.

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