From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Strategies for learning and performance support 2: instruction

30th July 2010

In last week’s post I looked at the simple strategy of exposition. You will recall that this involved little more than the delivery of information from teacher or expert to the learner, perhaps with a little Q&A and discussion, but largely one-way. Exposition occurs live through lectures, presentations and webinars, but can also be packaged [...]

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Working with the iPad

26th July 2010

It’s now two months since the iPad was launched in the UK, and so it’s timely that people are starting to comment on how they and others are using it. Inspired by these and other posts I thought I would jot down my own thoughts on how the iPad fits into my toolset. The first [...]

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Some kind of consultation on the future of skills has been launched

25th July 2010

———————————————————————— Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – 22 Jul 2010 10:10 Consultation on future of skills launched ———————————————————————— Skills Minister John Hayes has recently invited employers, individuals, colleges and training organisations to share their ideas on how they would like skills policy to be set out in the future. However, you may not be regarded as a [...]

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Strategies for learning and performance support 1: exposition

23rd July 2010

Those who design learning interventions and performance support materials have big choices to make, not only in terms of the social context in which the learning or support will occur (self-directed, one-to-one or group) and the medium (face-to-face, online, offline), but also in terms of the underlying learning strategy. In this and three following posts, [...]

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Beyond the Last Visible Sauce Bottle

22nd July 2010

Informal learning was not an invention of the Computer Age. However the degree to which corporate learning and development departments seem to be preoccupied with it seems to suggest that it is the new flavour of the month. The headline questions seem to be: “What is informal learning?” “Should it be of interest to corporate [...]

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Overcoming objections to social media

21st July 2010

At the eLN Showcase event on 9th July, the Onlignment team each presented a Pechu Kucha (20 slides, each 20 seconds in duration). Today we present Barry’s session, titled Overcoming objections to social media. Just a couple of years ago it was hard to find any serious use of social media within the workplace, and [...]

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Getting the job done with live online training

20th July 2010

At the eLN Showcase event on 9th July, the Onlignment team each presented a Pechu Kucha (20 slides, each 20 seconds in duration). Today we present Phil’s session, titled Getting the job done with live online training. Most training is carried out live in the classroom or on-the-job, but face-to-face instruction is not always the [...]

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Enjoyable Elearning – Is it an oxymoron?

19th July 2010

At the eLN Showcase event on 9th July, the Onlignment team each presented a Pechu Kucha (20 slides, each 20 seconds in duration). This week we’ll make them all available here, and we start with Clive’s session titles Enjoyable Elearning – Is it an oxymoron?. We all know that elearning is growing in popularity, primarily [...]

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Blackboard lit up by Elluminate

16th July 2010

Last week, Blackboard, the largest commercial provider of learning management systems to the education sector, purchased not one but two web conferencing providers that also have a strong educational heritage – Elluminate and Wimba. Now, although I have used Blackboard for five years or more now to deliver an online certificate for one of my [...]

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Photos from the eLN Showcase

15th July 2010

Here are a few photos from last week’s eLN Showcase event in London.

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