From the Coleface

AUGUST 4, 2014

If comfortable for this incident to be referred to on a training course or in a face to face presentation, why not in e-learning? Your people are already trusted to handle plenty of confidential information, why would you not trust them with this? What’s different?

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Compliance Training Compliance Confidentiality Trust 124

From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Personally, I’m looking forward to the opportunities that being part of a bigger team presents. The AI team will also benefit from having a bigger balance sheet behind it when it comes to pitching for larger contracts, and being part of a company that has the capability to deliver a wide range of blended learning solutions.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 8, 2008

My colleague Richard Middleton recently presented a session at the e-learning Network showcase ‘Fun & games – are they really necessary? It was a lively and insightful session on when using games can add learning value to an e-learning experience.

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From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

If therefore you accept that a “plan for everything” policy is unachievable, then it’s time to stop focusing so much on the future and be more skilled at behaving spontaneously in the present…can you smell the fear from the old school accountants/ lawyers in your firm yet? So is the subset of life called ‘Business’.

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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 reason I wanted to speak was that this would give me the excuse to spend some focused time doing research: What scientific evidence can be used to ground day to day instructional design decisions?

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Consider whether you need a designated tweeter for the session who can prompt discussions and moderate anything that needs moderating – possibly also a major comfort factor for the presenter if the tweets are getting displayed on a screen in the conference.

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Conference Virtual Classroom Twitter Lecture 100

From the Coleface

JULY 3, 2007

The common fallacy is that the research is saying that only 7% of the impact of a presentation is down to the words, and that the visual and the vocal represent 55% and 38% of the message respectively.

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Research Communication Issue Report 100

From the Coleface

JUNE 25, 2013

For those who like definitions “ Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific subject matter.” Just when you thought you had enough e-learning buzzwords, curation came along.

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Photoshop Photography Search Resources 153

From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2009

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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LMS Learning Management System System Management 100

From the Coleface

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Historically the ELN events were held in a lecture theatre with the day following a fairly standard pattern of 5 or 6 presentations, some Q&A and occasionally a panel discussion. Sadly this is not that much different from most other conferences that I’ve been to over the years.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

The first fear was that there would be lots of dreadful presentations as a result. And just like the old days of helping people improve their PowerPoint presentations, I spend a good chunk of time coaching in-house L&D staff how to improve the instructional design of their e-learning.

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Wiki Harbinger PowerPoint Expert 100

From the Coleface

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

He compares the feedback that’s had from 3 types of session that he’s run, a standard presentation, a set of stories and a facilitated discussion actively involving participants. In February’s TJ, Peter Honey gives his angle on how happy sheets can distract trainers from doing the right thing.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 8, 2008

If we present something as a fact on our courses or in our literature which isn’t, it can only result in hearsay that is damaging to the credibility of the profession in the long term. To claim that this is something we know i.e. it is a fact, is misleading.

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Statistics Reference Effectiveness Training 100

From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

You only have to look at the typical dreadfulness of powerpoint presentations people are prepared to put up with e.g. for technical updates, you get a sense of how big this cultural distance is. In professional services L&D, you are always likely to be amongst the early adopters of change wishing that the rest of the firm would catch up.

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Looking forward to the presentations in early October (and any attempts to bribe me), particularly from the people who have tried to make compliance e-learning exciting. …as long as it looks good and entertains learners, lets not be too fussed about measuring how it’s actually changed learner behaviour?

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Case Study Compliance Training News Learning 100

From the Coleface

JULY 12, 2007

Whilst many of these projects present new opportunities and build your CV, life would be so much easier if this merging was not happening. Uncertainty over whether you will be one of the overheads that will get cut out of the new firm. So what’s driving these mergers?

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The way that data has been put together and presented is genuinely inspiring. There are so many ways to present data in a better way than most habitually do. In the past decade, I can’t remember any politician who has presented the UK’s financial reality in a way that people can understand.

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Information Overload Budget Statistics Format 150

From the Coleface

JUNE 23, 2009

Presenting knowledge/ concepts/ methods that are completely new to the participant. Here are 4 different levels of learning journey: 1. Confirming something the participant already knows. Prompting the participant to make a small infererence from their current knowledge.

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