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Pearls of wisdom from LearnX 2010
This week I attended the 2010 LearnX Asia Pacific Conference in Sydney. While I jotted down reams of notes, I’m a big fan of one liners. So here are some single-sentence pearls of wisdom that I gleaned...
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Online courses must die!
A touch dramatic, isn’t it? Now that I have your attention, please bear with me. There’s method in my madness… The myth of rapid authoring The proliferation of so-called rapid authoring tools over the...
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The ILE and the FLE in harmony
In my previous article Online courses must die! I advocated the development of Informal Learning Environments (ILEs). Since then, Steve Wheeler’s thought-provoking article Anatomy of a PLE has prompted...
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How to revamp your learning model
In my articles Online courses must die! and The ILE and the FLE in harmony, I advocate the development of a virtual Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with the Formal Learning...
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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment
In the comments section of my previous post, Mike Caulfield kindly pointed me to the article Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network by Jonathan Mott. I was immediately interested...
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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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The future of learning management
People familiar with my blog will know that I’m not a member of the anti-LMS brigade. On the contrary, I think a Learning Management System is a valuable piece of educational technology – particularly...
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M-Learning’s dirty little secrets
I have a confession to make. At my workplace a little while ago, I created a smartphone-friendly version of our online induction course. Ownership of smartphones is relatively common in this corner of...
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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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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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Is the pedagogy of MOOCs flawed?
This is a question that I tackle in my Udemy course The Wide World of MOOCs. Almost immediately after I uploaded this preview to YouTube, someone on Twitter politely challenged me. She took umbrage to...
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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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How to fix our senseless compliance training
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...
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Transformers
It seems like everyone’s spruiking the “new normal” of work. The COVID-19 pandemic is keeping millions of previously office-bound employees at home, forcing L&D professionals to turn on a dime....
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