E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And I also realise that some courses are practically oriented, with their completion predicated on the production of a dashboard or the presentation of a project, for example. That’s a shift in the right direction, as the assessment of practice is integrated into the learning experience.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Inform the audience of the presenter’s handle. Tweeters like quoting the presenter, but they’re less likely to do so if he or she isn’t on Twitter. Putting the presenter’s handle on the last slide is comically late. Putting the presenter’s handle on the last slide is comically late.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You’re sitting in a classroom watching a presentation – which started late to allow the “stragglers” to show up – when about 10 minutes in it dawns on you… What am I doing here? It’s such a waste of time – both for you and for the presenter. I’m sure you know the feeling.

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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. Some presenters welcome questions during the session, while others prefer you wait until the end. Which leads me to… 3.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Not only does this question focus the user’s development goal, it also identifies the relevant leadership stage so the capabilities can be presented in the right context. Given the satisfaction and pride of building mastery drives engagement, the capability framework presents opportunities to improve mental health across the enterprise.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 8, 2014

By presenting my thoughts to the world, I need to understand them, and articulate them effectively for others to understand. I’ve been blogging for several years now, and a question that continually pops up is why do I do it? My answer has remained consistent over time. I blog primarily for myself.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The course revolved around 7 affordances of e-learning “ecologies”, with 2 presented each week. Speaking of tangents, one of the instructors supplemented his presentations with interesting vignettes about his educational heroes from history, which I found both informative and engaging.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 10, 2014

One of the best conference sessions I have ever attended was presented by Chris Bessell-Browne from Qantas College. As Chris proceeded with her presentation at the conference, everyone in the audience was on the edge of their seat as they eagerly anticipated the next instalment. In other words, nothing like typical compliance training.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I mean, it was professionally organised and delivered as always, but I just didn’t buy into what the presenters were saying. Then something unexpected happened… one of the presenters showed us how his analysis predicted an even result. No – the presenters claimed his social media campaign was poor.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You’re sitting in a classroom watching a presentation – which started late to allow the “stragglers” to show up – when about 10 minutes in it dawns on you… What am I doing here? It’s such a waste of time – both for you and for the presenter. I’m sure you know the feeling.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 5, 2012

Furthermore I had the impression that my understanding the material presented was almost irrelevant to the lecturer. All of the material was presented orally … instructors realized that their job security, to a large extent, hinged on their knowledge of a system or component of the space station.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 27, 2017

While it’s admirable for L&D to be responsive to the business’s relentless requests for training, it’s time for us to break out of the cycle of reactivity.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 27, 2016

The first instance was at AFTRS in Sydney, where I attended a presentation of VR Noir: A Day Before The Night. In the space of a couple of weeks, I have previewed the future of entertainment twice.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 2, 2011

Whatever topic you care to nominate, odds are some expert somewhere around the world has written about it, talked about it, filmed it, or presented a slideshow about it. Whatever topic you care to nominate, odds are some expert somewhere in the organisation can write about it, talk about it, film it, or present a slideshow about it.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

The only people who seem to care are the MOOC providers themselves (naturally), the proponents of formal learning, and the ever-present killjoys. To these people, the completion rate of a MOOC is a moot point. To the MOOC providers I say: Adopt the freemium model already!

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 15, 2011

Richard Binhammer presents a case study on perhaps the most social corporation in the world, Dell. Debbie Weil exposes the 5 truths of baby boomers and social media. Peter Shergold argues that social media reinvigorates civic participation in government. Bob Egan reviews the relentless march of mobile connectivity.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 24, 2014

While the webcam presented the human face, the learning experience remained undeniably isolated. Web conferencing was starting to become popular around the same time, and while these days Skype and FaceTime are de rigueur , back then webcamming introduced a sorely needed human element to distance learning. Second Life was different.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then I attended a webinar presented by Jon Soong from Makers Empire. I’ve often wondered about the relevance of 3D printing in the corporate sector because we rarely produce a thing. Our products – such as bank accounts and insurance policies – are essentially 1’s and 0’s floating in the ether.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 26, 2012

Out of shot is a unit that was used at the National Exposition in Zurich in 1939, which was the first time TV was presented to the Swiss public. One of the world’s first mobile phones. Vintage televisions. IBM 601 electromechanical punch card tabulator, circa 1940. DuMont 303 oscilloscope, circa 1950.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Some of the researchers were present to chat and answer questions about their pride and joy. The showcase was followed by a keynote presentation, New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning and participatory culture , presented by Jan Herrington from the University of Wollongong. The poster abstracts are available online.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 23, 2008

I attended an informative presentation today called Mobile Mania and the Business Impact presented by Robin Simpson , Research Director at Gartner , and Matt Brennan, Enterprise BDM for Emerging Technologies at Apple.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2013

It reminds me of that episode of Peep Show in which Mark presents Jeremy with a life coaching certificate, replete with 4 stars. The fact remains: people love recognition for what they do. Mozilla’s Open Badges initiative leverages this phenomenon by gamifying the learning experience.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 29, 2013

Hot on the heels of my 5 benefits of open badges for corporates , I now present my 7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates. Regular readers of my blog will know that I’m quite the MOOC fan. While I realise massive open online courses are not a panacea, I believe they have much to offer learners and learning professionals alike.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

That was the key point of my presentation at The Learning Assembly in Melbourne last week. Game-based learning doesn’t have to break the bank. Sure, you can spend an obscene amount of money on gaming technology if you want to, but you don’t have to. Take Diner Dash for instance.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 10, 2014

Have you ever been to a conference where the presenter asks the audience, “Who’s implemented a mobile learning strategy?”, ”, and only 2 or 3 people raise their hand? Forgive me: it’s a rhetorical question. I know you have. Because everyone has.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 26, 2013

While Google Glass has augmented reality capability, it is essentially a wearable computer with which digital information is conveniently presented in front of the wearer’s eye. On the subject of Google, I think Scott’s differentiation between Google Glass and Explore Engage’s Augmented Reality Eyewear is an important one.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 1, 2011

The presenter assured us that others who have trained properly can indeed move the box just by thinking about it. Emotiv – I was super keen to see a demo of this brain/computer interface, but I was a bit disappointed. The punter who was doing the training exercise couldn’t get the little box to move on the screen.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 26, 2017

Moreover, some of the models I found were either overly complicated (in my opinion) or they were presented in an illogical manner. 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.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I prefer to attend the presentations I paid for, and enjoy the breaks in-between. You’re not on the agenda. I attend conferences to learn. If you want to meet me there, I’d be delighted, but please don’t request a meeting. Do feel free to introduce yourself to me at an opportune moment. That’s networking ;-).

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

An ever-present thorn in the side of online education, cheating will be almost impossible to prevent in the MOOC space. Again, this is already being considered by the American Council on Education. Of course, a certificate of completion won’t suffice. Online cheating will mushroom. But surely we can do better than onsite exams?

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 4, 2018

Loath to disappoint, I hereby present 25 more real-world examples of virtual reality, drawn from this year’s and last year’s events. The inaugural #VRwolweek unearthed 20 real-world examples of the emerging technology, and the enduring popularity of that blog post tells me that we are hungry for more.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 12, 2014

I recently asked a presenter at an e-learning conference what she does when her target audience aren’t actively participating in the discussion forums that she sets up, and she replied matter-of-factly that she reports their reticence to their respective managers.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 24, 2008

The islands have virtual lecture theatres where the teachers can show video clips and PowerPoint presentations to large audiences, plus breakout areas for small-group discussions and more open areas for informal styles of learning. Westley gave us a real-time tour of Skoolaborate’s islands in Second Life, with commentary from Mike.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 15, 2011

Please note my 1-liners don’t necessarily reflect a synopsis of each presentation. As per my tradition, I will share my 1-line takeaways with you here, and I am more than happy to discuss them further. Simply add a comment! Instead, they represent something specific that I found particularly worthwhile.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’m annoyed by having to play a clip, wait for it to load, and then wait for the presenter to get to the bit that is relevant to me. When I need to find out how to perform a particular task in a particular software program, I strongly prefer text-based instructions over video.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 20, 2013

The only people who seem to care are the MOOC providers themselves (naturally), the proponents of formal learning, and the ever-present killjoys. To these people, the completion rate of a MOOC is a moot point. To the MOOC providers I say: Adopt the freemium model already!

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 23, 2022

Abbreviated to eDNA, this term refers to the analysis of minute traces of organic matter in samples of soil, water and even air to identify the wildlife that’s present in the vicinity. Which leads me to another interest: Environmental DNA. I consider eDNA a game changer, not only for cryptozoology but also for mainstream ecology.

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