E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In The leader’s new clothes I distinguish between management training and leadership training. In Transformers I redefine training for a remote workforce. In Yellow submarine I round down the prevailing notion of human-centered design. In Academic deflation I spot a trend in higher education.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 8, 2019

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. Similarly I see an opportunity for micro-learning to be deployed before the training. Nor am I going to try to convince you to jump on board, or abandon ship.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 5, 2023

Training is an investment in time and effort on the part of the attendees, so naturally they seek a worthwhile return. The folks who struggle to join the dots might never do so on their own. Hearing the answers voiced by their peers, particularly those in similar roles, helps the penny drop. It empowers the attendees to set expectations.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2020

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. Bums on seats misses the point of training which, let’s remind ourselves again, is to improve performance.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In A slight misnomer I propose an adjustment to the job title “Learning Experience Designer” In The definition of insanity I revise my solution to fixing our senseless compliance training. In Reality bites I urge caution when using research to inform decisions.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, we might think of the induction of new starters, which is often segregated by division; or of technical training, which is typically segregated by team. For example, multiple monikers across the organisation might fulfil the role of people manager, or vendor relationship manager, and training will target them accordingly.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2018

From the get-go, a false idol that must fall is the belief that the role of the L&D department is to create all the training to meet the organisation’s learning needs. Freed from the burden of training everything , we can now focus our attention on what should be trained.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 3, 2019

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. 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Well I’m not aware of anyone attending a course prior to using the likes of Google, Facebook, TikTok or Insta, so a lack of training evidently isn’t always a barrier to action. The $100 Hypothetical holds that the same employee would readily find a relevant course in the online library …if they received $100 for doing so.

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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

JUNE 17, 2013

The initiative allows training providers to issue digital “badges” to the participants in their courses, who thereby earn online representations of their newly acquired skills. Moreover, mandatory compliance training is universally disdained and dreaded in equal measure. But I have since realised this is a terrible idea.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 18, 2024

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I beheld much to admire in a recent podcast in which Hayley Curcio, Head of MECCAversity, shared the iconic retailer’s approach not only to training its workforce but also to educating its customers. ” I think those two observations describe customer education in a nutshell.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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. He had also racked up quite a tenure at the company, so he was considered something of a stalwart. In my own role, though, I could see what Jim couldn’t: the incoming wave of e-learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In Supercharge your digital training I proposed three ways to transform online delivery. In The right stuff I proposed we recruit an evaluation specialist. In Approaching perfection I proposed we drop the arbitrary pass mark. In I don’t know I proposed we normalise a new answer option.

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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. And yet… the world is changing. What should Ron do?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you’re aware of any other L&D conferences in Australia or New Zealand this year, please do let me know… Conference List The details of the following events may change, so best check the latest information on their websites!

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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. And this will greatly affect in-person education and training.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 16, 2013

Open badges can credential in-house training. Yes, corporates can print off certificates of completion for employees who undertake their in-house training offerings, only for them to be pinned to a workstation or hidden in a drawer. Despite my talk of “training” thus far, open badges are in fact task oriented.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 20, 2012

• 10% of learning occurs via formal training (eg classes). This 70:20:10 breakdown has since been supported by subsequent research , though sometimes the ratio is represented as 80:20 to reflect informal learning and formal training respectively. Formal training becomes value add. • 20% on informal learning.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 15, 2014

I really wish I embedded this video into Take the law out of compliance training , but I didn’t. compliance motivation corporate instructional design legislation meaning PCI regulation regulatory risk management Sussex Safer Roads training' To avoid the fine… right? So here it is now.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 13, 2013

Most people won’t train outside of business hours. Some may say most people won’t train inside business hours, but let’s remain generous. Most people won’t use their own mobile devices for training. If you must push out training, forget about smartphones. It was doomed to fail and it did.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 3, 2023

And I’ve heard all the excuses to justify it: “I haven’t been trained in that”; “We don’t have the technology”; “We don’t have the right culture” Which again I’m sorry to concede, I’ve been quick to judge as symptoms of ineptitude, laziness or apathy.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So if a study or even a meta-analysis demonstrates the efficacy of the flipped classroom approach to workplace training, it mightn’t replicate at your company because no one does the pre-work. They have different budgets, systems, policies, processes, and most consequentially, cultures. Essentially it’s a question of probability.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

No – I’m referring to the learner’s training records. But worse, if the learner leaves the organisation to join another, they also leave their training records behind. We’re going to make you do your training all over again. It’s mine, sitting in the sky, keeping all my training records accessible.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 15, 2018

I have long been of the opinion that L&D professionals should dispense with being the SME of what is being trained; and instead be the SME of how it’s being trained. Under this paradigm, we are the experts in the science and practice of learning and development, and we consult the business accordingly.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 5, 2012

Despite the years of training and the millions of dollars poured into the program, he and his two cosmonaut colleagues had to rely on their collective ingenuity, tenacity and sheer luck to remain alive. One of the most shocking parts of the story takes place in Star City – the cosmonaut training compound located outside Moscow.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 25, 2019

For example, Japan Airlines uses AR to train its engine technicians , while Deakin University uses it to teach its healthcare students. Word on the street is this kind of next level immersion will feature in their upcoming Harry Potter spinoff.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 28, 2014

In M-Learning’s dirty little secrets I advocated the creation of “one course to rule them all” I argued that if you must push out training, forget about smartphones. It replaces the notion of training “in case” it will be required with performance support “when” it is required. And the answer, of course, is it can.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 31, 2022

On the contrary, we should be collaborating with our colleagues on activities related to our remit – for example training needs analysis, engineering the right environmental conditions for transfer, and even Level 4 evaluation – to achieve win-win outcomes.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Some badges such as the ones that are popular among IT geeks are earned by completing a training program or by passing an exam. What that something is is a variable to be defined.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 10, 2014

This poses a problem when, for example, you need to roll out compliance training to each and every individual. In other words, nothing like typical compliance training. When was the last time anyone reacted like that to your training? It makes the learning experience engaging, relevant and authentic.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The trained eye recognises the flaws (sometimes) but of course, most people are not science grads. Suppose a special training program is implemented to improve an organisation’s flagging culture metric. Sure, it could have been the training, or it could have been something else. The workplace is no exception.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 9, 2016

Extended Enterprise Training (EET) is a term that was introduced to me by Don Presant in response to my previous blog post Educate everyone. Most sources I’ve looked up agree with Av Srivastava’s definition of the term: Extended Enterprise Learning is any training that is provided to learners outside of your organization.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We live in an era where “training”, “lecture”, “course” and even “teaching” have become dirty words. On the contrary, they are the experts in a science that is critical to the overall performance of the organisation. When the learner is less inclined.

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E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Plenty of other topics occupied my mind, from 70:20:10 and 3D printing to the extended enterprise and our universally despised compliance training regime. How to fix our senseless compliance training. But they weren’t the be-all-and-end-all of the e-learning universe. Paper cuts. 20 real-world examples of Virtual Reality.

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