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Five ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Last week I had the privilege of judging the e-learning awards (obviously my lips are sealed as to who the winners are until the awards dinner).
From the Coleface
Talent management myths and facts
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Last Friday I went to an excellent session of the Trainers and Developers Network led by Catherine Shepherd.
e-learning professionals “the cobbler’s children with no shoes”
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 24, 2014
At a recent Professional Services e-learning Forum, L&D teams were likened to “cobbler’s children with no shoes” This allegory describes the phenomenon where professionals are so busy with work for their clients and their teams that they neglect using their professional skills to help themselves or those closest to them. A beautiful metaphor, but is it true to life?
Escaping from the compliance e-learning cul-de-sac
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Much of the e-learning that professional firms offer is compliance-based. The risk is that poor compliance e-learning ends up tainting learners’ expectations of e-learning (this is sometimes referred to as the “compliance e-learning cul-de-sac”).
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Instructional design agony uncle
From the Coleface
JANUARY 27, 2014
At this year’s Learning Technologies show I’ve been invited by the eLearning Network to do a slot on ‘Ask the Expert’ about instructional design. I’ll be at stand 190 from 2-3pm on Wednesday 29 January, answering any questions you might have on instructional design.
Viv on Learning Now TV on 31 March
From the Coleface
MARCH 21, 2016
As an experienced blended learning designer and judge of the e-learning Awards (recently rebranded as the Learning Technologies Awards), I was invited to appear on TV. As part of the learning designers series, I’ve shared three key tips on blended learning design on LNTV.
How professionals learn
From the Coleface
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
In the November Issue of TJ , Des Woods and Henry Marsden have an article called “How professionals learn” As the former head of learning at Ernst & Young and head of professional development at Linklaters, Des is writing from considerable experience. This is a great article if you are relatively new to professional services in your L&D career, especially if you’ve worked in a different industry previously.
How would you design learning with an unlimited budget?
From the Coleface
MARCH 3, 2014
Recently I was given what many instructional designers would consider the best brief ever: there’s unlimited budget, there’s no major urgency, just come up with something innovative and interesting.
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So does Linkedin really work?
From the Coleface
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
I’m often asked the question does Linkedin really help or is it a waste of time? Like most social media it allows us to do things that we do in real life faster, more cheaply, with more reach and more publicly (or with less privacy, if you prefer).
5 free technology tools for trainers to enhance face to face training
From the Coleface
APRIL 2, 2012
Face to face trainers often see technology as threat or replacement of the face to face experience. But when used appropriately technology can enhance what happens in the training room (and afterwards). At the eLearning Network event “A fresh look at elearning”, Julie Wedgwood demonstrated five tools which have great potential and they’re free! These tools are especially applicable when participants have access to tablet computers or smartphones.
Why the time is right for self-managed learning
From the Coleface
MAY 31, 2017
In 1990 Peter Senge published “ The Fifth Discipline ” , giving a compelling vision of how companies could transform into learning organisations. The ideas chime with many L&D professionals, but adoption by business has been patchy.
Five more ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence
From the Coleface
OCTOBER 16, 2016
Once again I had the privilege to judge the e-learning awards (now called the Learning Technology Awards). When I last judged the compliance category two years ago I wrote Five ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence .
Seven Simple Secrets to Off-the-Shelf Course Success
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Professional Services e-learning Forum (PSEF) welcomes CLO of the year
From the Coleface
MARCH 4, 2016
Fresh from being awarded CLO of the year by the LPI, forum member Sarah Lindsell , Global & UK Director of Digital Learning and Learning Strategies at PwC, was the guest speaker at PSEF’s 3 March meeting hosted by Deloitte.
Let’s focus on the learning (with a little help from Cynefin)
From the Coleface
JUNE 15, 2016
I enjoyed a day out at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum yesterday. Like many conferences, there was no shortage of vendors trying to broadcast how their offering is the panacea to organisations’ performance problems. This noise about the channels of learning (“modality”) tends to distract from a far more significant consideration: What is the nature of the learning that we want to make happen? How clear are we about what we want people to learn?
Research says that whatever I say next will be a whopping lie
From the Coleface
MARCH 11, 2015
Over 15 years of working in L&D (and a dose of studying philosophy of science at university) makes me very alert to the phrase “research says” It is usually followed by an unsubstantiated claim.
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Ice bucket learning
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 1, 2014
If you’ve managed to avoid the ice bucket challenge , I can only commend you for managing to stay unplugged from social media on your holidays, you have surpassed me.
Dialogomatic 2.0 launches on 1st April
From the Coleface
APRIL 1, 2014
Today I have been given exclusive reviewer access to the Beta version of Dialogomatic 2.0, the system that takes dialogue from a novel and at the click of a button can republish this as the script for self-paced e-learning, a stage play, music for a musical or as a comic strip.
The pitfalls of selling content online – five questions that training companies should ask
From the Coleface
JULY 30, 2015
Imagine you are running a training company that has successfully carved out a niche. You’re selling lots of training courses and it’s only capacity that is stopping you from selling more. One day you realise that you could increase reach, lock out competitors and reduce cost of sales if you put some of the training online. What could possibly go wrong? Here are five questions that I find many training companies in this situation have failed to ask. Who is the buyer?
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Happy season
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 24, 2013
At this time of year there’s plenty of times that you’ll hear ‘Happy Christmas’ or ‘Happy New Year’ which got me thinking about the nature of happy. There are three pertinent stories I wanted to share, two from 2013 but the first one from 20 years ago….
Is praise better behind closed doors?
From the Coleface
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Lucy Kellaway’s recent article in the FT “Compliments are always best made behind closed doors” challenges the conventional wisdom that workplace praise is best given in public and criticism in private.
Curation 101
From the Coleface
JUNE 25, 2013
Just when you thought you had enough e-learning buzzwords, curation came along. For those who like definitions “ Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content that surrounds specific subject matter.”
Learning Science Laundering
From the Coleface
JUNE 10, 2013
When I’m explaining to non L&D people what I do, one thing they commonly say is “Oh yes, e-learning.
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Chain of fools
From the Coleface
MAY 9, 2013
I chose the title for this blogpost because I like the tune , not because I wanted to offend… Anyway, here’s a chain of events that’s been played out in hundreds of organisations.
News is bad for you
From the Coleface
APRIL 19, 2013
A really thought-provoking article by Ralf Dobelli (based on a longer essay) about information overload and in particular, news.
What a fantastic widget!
From the Coleface
JANUARY 24, 2013
You may have noticed that more and more websites are allowing you to download appointments into your calendar e.g. www.nationalrail.co.uk lets you get the train time you have looked up straight into Outlook with just the click of a button. Though the technology for sending iCalendar files (.ics)
Did you get potatoes in your stocking?
From the Coleface
JANUARY 10, 2013
Now that the festive season is becoming a distant memory and the kids are back at school, the magic fabric of Christmas has begun to fray a bit in the Cole household. And I admit, I’m to blame.
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eLN Insights advent calendar
From the Coleface
DECEMBER 3, 2012
After a weekend of getting advent calendars underway, once again it’s great to see that the eLearning Network has its own advent calendar up and running. Check it out at [link]. e-learning
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