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Will the App Become the New Classroom?

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(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. We now live in a world of information abundance. Yet much of today’s education and training in the world of work remains fixed to an era long gone. Google needs no classrooms.

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Being Bold and Imagining the Different

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They are amongst some of the greatest treasures the USA and the world possess. John Muir’s response to his father’s view of the world was to turn the Calvinist work ethic he’d grown up with towards his own ‘redwood cathedrals’ with an unsurpassed enthusiasm. But they haven’t always been seen that way. It won’t be easy.

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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

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It seems that Deloitte and PwC are the only winners in a world where financial administrators are the current kings. I was struck by the sheer blinkered view and ignorance of two ‘experts’ in the retail world as they analysed the demise of Jessops on BBC Radio 4 last week. The world of learning and development has also changed.

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2016 Top Tools for Learning

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Twitter works as a window to my professional world. Google Scholar: Scholar opens a rich world of academic work at the click of a button. Last year’s ‘Top 10 Tools Survey results are here I’ve listed my 2016 votes (in the ‘Personal & Professional Learning category) below.

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ID - Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world?

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But it simply isn’t appropriate for today’s world. The instructor (or virtual instructor delegated into an eLearning course) steps me through the various processes and delivers the learning content in an engaging way. For years we’ve been led to believe that ‘learning’ meant acquiring knowledge. Challenging?

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The Power of X – Experiential Learning in Today’s World

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The 21 st Century experiential learning view is that the place to store vast amounts of information and knowledge is in libraries, not in heads, and that now and in the future these libraries will be increasingly virtual, easy to access, and usually available at the click of a mouse or the touch of a screen.

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From Courses to Campaigns : using the 70:20:10 approach

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Virtually all of them are wrapped up in an ‘event’ concept – often called the course, workshop, programme (or program), module etc. Roles in the new world of 70:20:10 1 The Economist: An interview with Henry Mintzberg [link] 2. It encourages managers to be disconnected from the people they're managing” 1.