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The 10 Commandments of Microblogging
As microblogging solutions such as Yammer sweep across the corporate sector, a melting pot of social media veterans and newbies inevitably begins to boil. And this is a wonderful thing. Loads of new...
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The black hole of adult education
So the Russians want to build a research base on the moon, and they want NASA and the European Space Agency to help them. Anyone who has read Off The Planet by Jerry Linenger knows that this idea has...
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Informal first
It is well documented that the vast majority of learning in the workplace is informal. According to extensive research undertaken by the Center for Creative Leadership: • 70% of learning occurs “on...
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A defence of the “Next” button
The “Next” button doesn’t have many friends in the e-learning community. The humble yet shiny arrow is associated with boring page turners. Hell-bent on avoiding the “Next” button, many instructional...
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Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector
Yammer has been quite a success at my workplace. Not off the charts like at Deloitte, yet very much alive and growing. It warms my heart to see my colleagues asking and answering questions, sharing web...
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The future of MOOCs
MOOCs get a bad rap. Dismissed as prescriptive, or teacher-centric, or unsocial, or something else, it’s like a badge of honour to espouse why you dislike MOOCs. Despite their pedagogical flaws,...
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Badges of honour
“Will I get a certificate for this?” No matter how much we try to cultivate an informal learning culture within our organisations, this question pops up time and again. It’s a symptom of the way...
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The past tense of open badges
Some commentators are heralding open badges as the nemesis of the college degree. I don’t quite see it that way. It is true they are uneasy bedfellows. As Mark Smithers observes… “It’s interesting that...
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Top 5 benefits of open badges for corporates
I’ve been blogging a lot about open badges lately. That really means I’ve been thinking a lot about open badges lately, as I use my blog as a sense-making platform. Through my blogging, combined with...
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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates
Hot on the heels of my 5 benefits of open badges for corporates, I now present my 7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates. Regular readers of my blog will know that I’m quite the MOOC fan....
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Udemy for you and me
It seems like every time you blink, another free tool becomes available to help you create online learning resources. One of them is Udemy – a web-based platform that enables anyone to create and...
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E-Learning Provocateur: Volume 3
Hooray! My E-Learning Provocateur: Volume 3 is now available. This volume comprises my latest collation of articles from this blog. As in the earlier volumes, my intent is to provoke deeper thinking...
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Out of the shadows
“What apps do you recommend?” With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the workplace, this is a question I am being asked with increasing frequency. And I don’t really like answering it. I...
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The point of compliance
Why do we wear seat belts? To avoid the fine… right? I really wish I embedded this video into Take the law out of compliance training, but I didn’t. So here it is now.
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The dawn of a new generation
User-generated content (UGC) is not a novel concept, but most of us in the corporate sector have barely scratched its surface. Beyond enterprise social networks – which are hardly universal and face...
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Let’s get rid of the instructors!
The title of my previous post, Let’s get rid of the instructional designers!, was a tongue-in-cheek reference to a radical view of instructional design. I think it would be safe to say that the vast...
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The relationship between learning and performance support
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. Jane is a...
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Where is L&D heading?
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...
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20 real-world examples of Virtual Reality
The inaugural Virtual Reality Working Out Loud Week launched earlier this month. It’s something I started up almost on a whim to promote real-world applications of virtual reality. There’s plenty of...
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