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The next normal
E-Learning Provocateur
MAY 3, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new normal for L&D professionals as millions of people were sent home to work remotely.
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6 more examples of Augmented Reality
E-Learning Provocateur
MARCH 23, 2020
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Unhappy sheets
E-Learning Provocateur
APRIL 6, 2020
Few things in the L&D profession attract as much disdain as the Level 1 evaluation survey.
5 podcasts every e-learning professional should listen to
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 2, 2019
…or should that be “to which every e-learning professional should listen”? Never mind, I can end a sentence with a preposition if I want to. Arcane grammar jokes aside, I’m a late bloomer to podcasts.
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Micro-learning’s unsung sibling
E-Learning Provocateur
APRIL 8, 2019
Micro-learning is so hot right now. But I’m not going to deliberate over its definition. If you’re into that, check out Shannon Tipton’s Microlearning: The Misunderstood Buzzword and 7 Deadly Myths of Microlearning.
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The best of both worlds
E-Learning Provocateur
JUNE 10, 2018
There’s no point landing the perfect plane at the wrong airport. That’s an analogy someone shared with me several years ago to explain Design Thinking, and it has resonated with me ever since for two reasons.
The L&D maturity curve
E-Learning Provocateur
MARCH 3, 2019
Over the course of my career, I’ve witnessed a slow but steady shift away from formal learning to informal learning.
Less is more
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Well that’s my excuse, anyway. 2019 has been a tumultuous year for me, so I haven’t been able to write as much as I have in previous years. Nonetheless, I hope the few articles I was able to publish proved useful and worthwhile.
The foundations of innovation in L&D
E-Learning Provocateur
MAY 13, 2018
There are two sides of the innovation coin in corporate learning & development: technology and pedagogy. The former is rather obvious and is often conflated with the term innovation.
[Webinar] The State of Customer Education: Findings from Skilljar’s Benchmarks and Trends Report
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How to fix our senseless compliance training
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 3, 2016
All big organisations have a Learning Management System. It’s used to track and record the training that the employees do. In practice, it tends to be used to administer compliance training, though it can be much broader than that. And this is a good thing.
Crazy Eight
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 9, 2018
Is it just me or is every year a “big year”…? Well 2018 marked a decade of blogging by yours truly, and that alone is something that I’m proud of.
A framework for content curation
E-Learning Provocateur
JUNE 17, 2015
In conversation at EduTECH earlier this month, Harold Jarche evoked George E. Box’s quote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” Of course, the purpose of a model is to simplify a complex system so that something purposeful can be done within it.
5 games every e-learning professional should play
E-Learning Provocateur
APRIL 2, 2017
You can narrow down someone’s age by whether they include spaces in their file names. If they do, they’re under 40. That is a sweeping declaration, and quite possibly true. Here’s another one… Gamers are a sub-culture dominated by young men.
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Gift horses
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 15, 2018
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. I’m fascinated by this quote that Henry Ford may or may not have uttered. In The best of both worlds I promoted Design Thinking as a means of using customer insights to inform strategic decision making.
5 papers every learning professional should read
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 1, 2015
I don’t read as many journal articles as I’d like. Given the challenges and pressures of professional life, combined with everything else that’s been going on privately, I’ve fallen out of the habit of scanning the latest abstracts and deep diving into particular studies.
The dark side of gamification
E-Learning Provocateur
MARCH 16, 2015
How well do you chop your cucumber? It’s a ridiculous question, I know, but in the short film Sight the protagonist plays an augmented reality game that awards him points for the consistency in the thickness of his slices. The scene irked me.
Where is L&D heading?
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 6, 2015
Last week I was invited by David Swaddle to be a panellist at the Sydney eLearning and Instructional Design meetup. The topic of the evening was Where is L&D Heading? and some questions were posted through by the attendees ahead of time, while others emerged through the discourse.
The Better Way to Onboard Customers
Speaker: Skilljar Experts
The best onboarding programs have a super power: they’re constantly improving. Here at Skilljar, we’ve learned a thing or two about onboarding, both by crafting our own experience, and by collaborating with the best Customer Education professionals in the world. In our upcoming webinar, we’re going to share these learnings with you.
Figure it out
E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
I can honestly say I’ve never suffered from imposter syndrome. I’ve always been the type of person who likes to work out how to do something hands-on, so I can talk about it with confidence. I suppose I’ve been lucky in the sense that, throughout my career, I’ve been able to align my curiosity and sense of direction with the needs of the business. Having said that, I also suppose I’ve created some of my own luck by keeping a few steps ahead of the business.
3 uses of Virtual Reality in workplace education
E-Learning Provocateur
JULY 18, 2016
I’m always surprised when someone makes a sweeping declaration such as “No one’s using virtual reality in the workplace” I heard this very statement recently at an e-learning conference. Yep, an e-learning conference.
Back to the future
E-Learning Provocateur
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
I’m both a science nerd and a history buff, so naturally I’m fascinated by the history of science. When I visited Bern several years ago, the Museum für Kommunikation was at the top of my “to do” list.
I can’t use Facebook
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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Game-based learning on a shoestring
E-Learning Provocateur
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Game-based learning doesn’t have to break the bank. That was the key point of my presentation at The Learning Assembly in Melbourne last week. Sure, you can spend an obscene amount of money on gaming technology if you want to, but you don’t have to. Take Diner Dash for instance.
Deep diving into strange worlds
E-Learning Provocateur
DECEMBER 10, 2017
2017 was a whirlwind for me. I started a new job in a new sector, made loads of new friends there, learned heaps, and finished said job 10 months later before starting another one back in financial services. I haven’t had much of a chance to scratch myself!
Our secret world of learning
E-Learning Provocateur
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
One of my peers in Australia, Arun Pradhan , is developing an app to help us learn smarter, faster and deeper.
Constructive criticism of Coursera
E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Well it’s taken me over 3 and a half years, but I’ve finally completed another mooc. I use the term completed loosely, because while I consumed all the content, I didn’t submit any of the assignments.
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The relationship between learning and performance support
E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
This post is the third in a series in which I deliberate over the semantics of education. I dedicate this one to Jane Hart whom I was delighted to meet in-person in Sydney last month.
Let’s get rid of the instructional designers!
E-Learning Provocateur
AUGUST 12, 2014
That’s the view of some user-oriented design proponents. It’s something I remembered while writing my last blog post about user-generated content.
Collateral damage
E-Learning Provocateur
AUGUST 4, 2015
The L&D community may be divided into two camps: (1) Those for whom the mere mention of learning styles makes their blood boil; and (2) Those who are inexplicably unaware of the hullabaloo and are thus oblivious to the aforementioned boiling of blood.
The grassroots of learning
E-Learning Provocateur
OCTOBER 22, 2014
Here’s a common scenario: I “quickly” look up something on Wikipedia, and hours later I have 47 tabs open as I delve into tangential aspects of the topic. That’s the beauty of hypertext.
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