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Drunk at work? No, just resting.
Learning Rocks
JUNE 5, 2015
I know I don't get enough sleep. I really struggle with it.
Learning Rocks
When social is a taxing problem
Learning Rocks
JUNE 30, 2014
One of the projects I''ve been keen to push on with my current employer is extending our elearning provision beyond the isolated horrors of the self-study elearning "course" to more collaborative social opportunities. In this respect we''re quite lucky; with our current performance and learning management suite provider we have access to an advanced, mature enterprise social network (ESN) platform that is integrated with current user profiles.
Dan experienced 'creating a Tin Can API statement'
Learning Rocks
OCTOBER 24, 2012
I've just read up on Tin Can API. I've been meaning to do it for ages and I'm kinda pleased that, as it turns out, Tin Can does pretty much what I had assumed it would do - but it does it better than I could have imagined and way more besides.
Optimism - L&D's vice
Learning Rocks
APRIL 10, 2015
With election fever gripping the nation (ahem), I''ve been thinking a bit about polling and it occurs to me that we are subject to some of the same errors that cause pollsters eggy faces after the election - you know, where the media outlets start their witch-hunt to find out why the predicted outcome didn''t match the one we got.
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3 mysterious "features" of the LMS experience that ruin them for me
Learning Rocks
JANUARY 20, 2016
I've been working with LMSs for a long time and with everyone there are some common moans. Here are a couple that leapt out at me today. Remember, my experience is in large corporate LMSs, often from big global providers. Yours might be different. I hope that it is - I've certainly heard good things about some companies' offers. By all means enlighten me in the comments.
Fresh Look at Learning Design by Patrick Dunn
Learning Rocks
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Following the usual twisted thread of discovery I stumbled upon an interesting video by Patrick Dunn of a webinar that I suspect I had intended to join, but missed. Not having a stumbleupon account, and in the spirit of blog-based sharing I have rekindled recently, here it is for your delectation. "A
Why I don't like Twitter
Learning Rocks
JUNE 27, 2011
Let me start by making one thing really clear. I like Twitter very much. I find it very useful and it has probably become my number one personal learning tool over the last year*. However, I am becoming increasingly sceptical about its use as a social learning tool in any organised sense and in particular, there are some characteristics of how it is being used that frankly I'm not altogether comfortable with.
"Enlighten us but make it quick"
Learning Rocks
OCTOBER 28, 2013
That''s the cry of Igniteers everywhere. I''ve attended, spoken at and organised Ignites for (checks date of earliest posts ) nearly four years. Since running the first one I''ve always thought they''d make a great contribution to my favourite* annual exhibition Learning Technologies.
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A good BETT
Learning Rocks
JANUARY 16, 2011
Each year I go to Learning Technologies and see the posters for BETT and curse that I've missed what is billed as "Europe's biggest educational technology event".
No elearning, thank you very much!
Learning Rocks
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Our organisation has been asked to review and feedback on the new guidance for one particular area in which we are involved. I was particularly struck by the vehemence of its position with regards to elearning: [1] The use of e-learning may offer a number of benefits to an organisation. However, in all but the smallest healthcare organisations such a small GP’s practice with a single stage [activity] plan, e-learning is not acceptable as the sole means of training staff.
Things I'm fed up of doing in the 2010s
Learning Rocks
MARCH 15, 2011
These are some productivity (for which read "Windows/Office") activities for which the case against was clear and present 5 years ago, or longer, and yet which persist. They're a mixture of training related and general points. Dealing with email. Need I go on? Irritating inbox limits, lost communications, spam, single line throw away comments, documents mailed to a dozen people on the same network. I despise email.
weelearning - we want you to have it
Learning Rocks
JANUARY 28, 2013
In his latest post on our weelearning website , Sam Burrough explains why we are encouraging everyone to pick up on our idea and go with it: If you’re lucky enough to be heading to this week’s Learning Technologies Conference or Exhibition , one thing is guaranteed, you’re going to meet a lot of cool, interesting people. You may even end up down the pub with one or two of them, especially if you’re going to Curation Camp.
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mylearningworx - a reflection on the launch event
Learning Rocks
DECEMBER 21, 2012
Last week I was pleased to attend the launch of mylearningworx , a new site that offers individuals the chance to both make a course and take a course. If your passion is to teach people about local history or some craft or hobby, their platform allows you to quickly and easily pull a course together and sell it to others who want to learn.
A BETTr type of conference?
Learning Rocks
JANUARY 24, 2011
It's an interesting time to be involved with education in the UK. The government is hacking wildly at the structures that have been familiar for so long; results from UK schools seem to be slipping sharply; the industrial education model looks to be broken. And where can we find solutions to these problems, to bring education in this country back on track?
The informal learning plugin, on an LMS near you soon
Learning Rocks
OCTOBER 21, 2011
I just read a tweet from Jay Cross that took me to a post from a representative of Blackboard, makers of the dreadful LMS, purporting to dispel "myths" about informal learning. Given that I take informal learning to be a conceptual notion of knowledge acquisition and sharing rather than a defined and fairly uncontroversial body of knowledge like, say, climate science or evolution, I was intrigued and felt I needed to know more about these "myths".
Elearning. L&D's hard to kick habit?
Learning Rocks
JULY 3, 2015
I was talking about elearning design with a colleague recently and we wondered briefly what constraints we had on ourselves that we ourselves imposed. Scrolling seems so self-evidently the right solution to lots of text, yet lots of authoring tools are predicated on a fixed screen format of design that not simply encourages the text 'n next approach to learning design.
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Learning research to action - from Jakob Nielsen
Learning Rocks
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
I never tire of going on about Jakob Nielsen and the usefulness of his Alertbox. Nielsen is one of the pre-eminent figures in web usability, but in this post he is looking at information recall/learning as it relates to online content. link] How can we use this? I sent the following suggestion out to my colleagues on our Foundation Degree programme. Thought I'd share it here. The activity may be a relevant approach to adopt for review activities.
A simple language learning resource
Learning Rocks
JANUARY 2, 2013
I stumbled across this - not exactly sure how or why. I would sooo love something like this for Japanese*. It's wonderfully simple: each blog post is written in an accessible way, tagged as to what element of language is the key point and a short quiz to test comprehension is appended.
Failed by VISA
Learning Rocks
JULY 5, 2011
Just when I thought the "Verified by VISA" experience couldn't get any worse, the usually reliable eBuyer manages to pull off a real doozy: See the problem? WHAT THE HELL DO I CLICK ON NOW!?
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Why I'm still at Blogger
Learning Rocks
JUNE 1, 2011
Started off here. Always been here. Love the backdrop on this one. Can't be bothered to move. End of. (I I love Wordpress and I am happy to self-host these things , but Blogger is fine for what I need it to do). Hopefully that will answer that question now and in the future
OpenOffice Impress - a rapid tool?
Learning Rocks
JULY 25, 2007
The open source movement supports pretty much all we have to offer. It is entirely possible to create blogs, wikis, elearning courseware and even LMSs for free. To design your projects you can replace Adobe with a range of sophisticated desktop apps such as GIMP , Nvu/ Kompozer , Inkscape , Audacity and so on. If you aren't entirely ready to leap on line for your documentation handling courtesy of the likes of Google Docs, you have one very powerful option, OpenOffice.
PowerPoint's forgotten powers
Learning Rocks
FEBRUARY 8, 2007
In the rush to embrace rapid elearning, one tool and its potential value is easily overlooked - PowerPoint. Rapid authoring tools (RATs) like Presenter and PointeCast hoover in your slideshows and, with a little bit of dressing up, spit out LMS friendly broadcast shows. In the main these are suited to low level tasks like broadcasting new services or products - where content simply needs to be made available and tracked. This is the beauty of using PowerPoint.
Who have you left out?
Learning Rocks
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
When you're designing training courses* do you ever give any thought to the people who aren't going to participate? No, of course not, they're out of scope. The question I put to you is, should they be? I've been attending an early stage pilot of a new module in our leadership training programme. As is customary with these things a senior member of staff was on hand at the start and end of the day to put things in context**.
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eBooks - a potted guide to what I wanted to know
Learning Rocks
AUGUST 2, 2012
A great session at weelearning recently left me fired up and thinking about ebooks like I've never considered before. What's the problem with ebooks? I've had a number of ebook readers on my Android phones but have always been bamboozled by their boasts about compatibility with dozens of formats.
Badgification
Learning Rocks
OCTOBER 14, 2011
Rule 1: use symbols your users will relate to In keeping with the craze for following crazes, I've decided to add "badges" to our company wiki, Wisdom.
Compliance in health estates training
Learning Rocks
OCTOBER 3, 2011
I was required to speak to a group of estates managers at a recent training event organised by IHEEM , the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estates Management, on the topic of compliance. Naturally enough, we fielded a presentation on just how that topic applied to training.
Revisiting old useful ideas - learnscapes
Learning Rocks
JUNE 24, 2011
For whatever reason, this diagram by Clark Quinn has stuck in my head, and for the fourth time of calling I found myself scrabbling to find it, including tweeting the man himself to see if he could identify it from my patchy description.
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