From the Coleface

JUNE 25, 2013

Examples for inspiration (even though these are more complex than the basic level, these provide some practical examples of what is possible and provide stimulus that learners may use to set their own goals).

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Rephrasing the objectives as questions that this module will help you answer is just as effective at providing salience (Thalheimer ibid). If a learner does not know something, will seeing a learning objective including terms they don’t know only confuse them more? What’s the way forward? Have learning objectives.

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 13, 2007

The UK is not providing enough graduates with the right skills- the education system is failing to provide enough graduates of correct calibre. The UK is simply not providing enough graduates with the right attitude to do dull tasks at start of their careers. Leitch was right. Those Generation Y people need to face reality.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Can you really trust all the assurances by the provider that the mobile content will be compatible? Bear in mind that all the calls when mobile learning fails to work will come to L&D, and people won’t care if their phone is not on the official list of supported devices. Hence it’s wise for L&D to pilot and test mobile roll-outs.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 19, 2010

Provide a back channel – expect that some people will be tweeting or texting. Is there a virtual space that you can provide which allows participants to interact…this means that they’re more likely stay on focus, or at least be discussing something that is linked to the subject matter of the webinar.

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From the Coleface

MAY 21, 2012

As new technologies emerge and then go mainstream, this provides L&D practitioners with new channels through which to connect with learners and enable them to improve performance. However on the way, some organisations will get in badly wrong. Step forward Havering Sixth Form College in Hornchurch.

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

He cites the example of his firm providing International Financial Reporting Standards e-learning and how he’d like to approach it. “I We would then provide some topic based e-learning modules which would be relatively short and cross linked to enable them to be used as a resource afterwards.

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From the Coleface

MAY 9, 2013

For those of you who are unfamiliar with her, Cathy’s genius is to take a situation that really annoys e-learning practitioners and turn it into something positive that provides a workable solution. As Karl Marx might have said: “L&D professionals of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”

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From the Coleface

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

However don’t assume that simply providing a conference hashtag will generate a thriving backchannel – it takes a level of confidence and practice for people to feel comfortable that their contributions are worth sharing.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Cost that is passed onto the client, which does not actually provide the assurance that the client might reasonably expect. Effective CPD is all about providing the right amount of external motivation whilst nurturing internal motivation. Like much of human behaviour, the answer depends on the situation.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Diversity: a positive celebration of how the differences between people provide new ways of solving problems, understanding market needs and delivering higher quality client service. Provided these sub-groups can continue to work in a co-ordinated way, this seems to be a very sensible structure to help the firm make a difference in diversity.

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From the Coleface

JULY 21, 2008

In the meantime, most other e-learning providers will go out of business, meaning that organisations once more will have to turn to us trusty face to facers for all their learning interventions…and we all get to live happily ever after, without having to pay attention to any of those scary technological changes that others keep banging on about.

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 3, 2009

It will be interesting to see how the enterprise level LMS players manage to respond to both needs compared to the more nimble mid tier LMS providers. (an unwritten rule of business).

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From the Coleface

MAY 31, 2017

Although there are certain core programmes that L&D is always likely to own/provide, the world is too VUCA for L&D to forecast specific and popular learning needs in time to commission large scale solutions with a 2-3 month lead time. 5 reasons why self-managed learning can gain traction now.

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From the Coleface

APRIL 6, 2009

By decreasing the pre-eminence of legal knowhow, L&D practitioners can focus more on providing learning in the other people-related competencies, which they will typically feel more at home with. • Law firm cultures will gradually move so that the gap in status between lawyers and non-fee earners reduces.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 26, 2008

Richard will provide some insights into just how much fun you can get your learners to have and still make L&D look good. I’ve known several professional firms struggle to balance the need for e-learning to be a fun experience with it feeling serious enough to be credible to a professional audience.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 13, 2012

For informal learning, L&D’s ideal role should be to empower people to interact with as little corporate intervention as possible (though it’s really tempting to get stuck in and then foul it up…); so provide enablers e.g. sensible social media usage policies, recommend technologies, and then leave people to it.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Hence we diligently asked participants in their introductions to include what their biggest work challenge was, with the intention that we might flex the course or provide coaching to address this.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 6, 2009

My unscientifically tested belief, backed up by years of facilitating and instructional design experience, is that the more that you provide a variety of activities aimed at generating associations and meanings, the greater the impact of the learning intervention. By all means follow Justin’s advice…but in moderation is best. . .

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Nicky has worked on assignments with clients in America, Argentina, Canada, Nigeria and Venezuela, providing her with a strong understanding of global L&D issues and cultural differences. Her particular areas of expertise include strengths-based selection and recruitment, leadership development and performance management.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 24, 2008

L&D’s role will be more to facilitate the process of self-managed learning rather than being the monopolistic provider of training courses. To make best use of their time they will need to become more skilled at metalearning i.e. being more aware of how they learn best and choosing the appopriate learning approach.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Gut feel is that this is about providing people with opportunities, access to great resources, motivation, structured progression and the habit of managing their own learning. I’m not sure people becoming 1000 more productive is feasible…maybe it’s just that Jay knows some very poorly performing knowledge workers…

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From the Coleface

AUGUST 6, 2007

As the people providing them with learning, we need to challenge our assumptions about how learners use technology – which methods need updating and which are constantly effective. It’s only by looking at emergent technologies and how early adopters are actually using them, that we will get the full picture.

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From the Coleface

JANUARY 22, 2014

Unless you can find what you need in 3 or 4 clicks via a portal, it will be faster to use a search term (provided it generates good results). Compliance? And what was the password?…). The search function on most portals/ intranets is not great.

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From the Coleface

DECEMBER 8, 2008

If I was to apply Pareto to my commute to work, I’d be concluding that when I walk to the station I cover 80% of the distance in 20% of time, that my cup of tea on the station provides me with 80% of the refreshment in the first 20% of gulps and that 80% of the passengers occupy 20% of the carriages on the train.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 24, 2008

Meanwhile some of the more innovative L&D functions are seeing themselves more as provides of methodology and skills rather than publishers of content. The widespread adoption of Google, RSS and wikipedia also seem like steps in the right direction (as does the increased uptake of coaching).

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From the Coleface

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

the rights for members of quoted companies to raise concerns about the audit.

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From the Coleface

JULY 12, 2007

Is a decade of growth coming to an end?

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From the Coleface

OCTOBER 4, 2017

. “the way I learned this was” , “the way that my kids are learning is all video on mobile phones” and what learners want e.g. “we need a different solution for digital natives” A path to greater clarity and real consensus is to provide evidence. Here are three charts and their key implications.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 10, 2013

Learners have a right to assume that learning material they are being provided with has been checked out so the “facts” spread. Integration: Nobody can find the original source for the science, but the “fact” has become so widely recognised that it’s rarely challenged.

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From the Coleface

JUNE 23, 2009

” “What are the truly creative things that my e-learning provider can offer which make the high priority learning points a special experience?” . “Have we given enough ‘interaction time’ for this ‘high priority learning point’ given the level of learning journey involved?”

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