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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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Is New Technology Really a Threat?

13th July 2010

This is not the first time I’ve reposted Norman Lamont’s superb slideshare presentation on the use of new technology in the workplace. I was particularly reminded of it when prepapring for the recent Pecha Kucha session I ran at the eLN Showcase on the subject of Overcoming Objections to Social Media. One of the key messages [...]

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Launching our Social Media Workshops

12th July 2010

We’re very pleased to announce a series of public workshops on the use of social media for learning. The workshops have been jointly developed by Barry Sampson of Onlignment and Jane Hart of the Centre for Performance and Learning Technologies. Barry and Jane will co-facilitate all of the workshops, the first of which will be [...]

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“That” Pecha Kucha

12th July 2010

It’s true – on Friday I presented my first Pecha Kucha. Now I’m not one to let the facts get in the way of a cheap joke, so I’ll say I was reminded of Oscar Wilde. After the opening of Lady Windermere’s Fan he observed, “The play was a great success; the audience was a [...]

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