No, this post isn’t about workplace learning! But if you have young children (or grandchildren) you might like this National Trust project for children to achieve badges for completing 50 outdoor activity tasks. I’ve embedded the YouTube trailer below, and here’s the link to the 50 Things website, where you and/or your children can sign up.  It’s […]

Here are the results of the 2014 Learning in the Workplace survey taken by over 1,000 respondents worldwide*, who rated the importance (value/usefulness) of 10 different ways of learning in the workplace. Results of the 2014 Learning in the Workplace survey ©C4LPT Not important Quite important Very important Essential VIP + Essential Company training/e-learning 24%  39% 21% […]

4 August - 12 September 2014 (6 weeks) In this fast moving age, it is no longer just about studying existing bodies of knowledge and acquiring existing skills in formal courses but adopting a new set of learning strategies (a) to “learn the new” and constantly discover new ideas, new thinking, new resources in order to stay up to […]

There have already been well over 600 votes cast in the 8th Annual Learning Tools Survey; you can view some of them here. If you would like to vote – either publicly or privately – you will need to name your own top 10 tools for learning where a learning tool is defined as “any software or online tool or service that you use […]

As organisations “go social” (a term increasingly used to refer to one that is adopting an enterprise social or collaboration platform) , I am often asked: “How do you make people learn socially?” But as I have pointed out before in my post, 10 things to remember about social learning (and the use of social media for learning) …   You can’t […]

Many organisations have now adopted an Enterprise Social Network (ESN) like Yammer, Jive, Socialcast or Chatter to provided the infrastructure for collaborative working in the business. However, the ESN also offers a big new opportunity for L&D, because by integrating their own learning initiatives in the very same platform that is being used to underpin work […]

This is an extract from Chapter 1 of the Social Learning Handbook 2014. Just as the Social Web is changing the way that individuals learn, more and more organizations are now appreciating the power of social media for their own businesses. Many have already understood its value for marketing and promotion to customers, e.g. by […]

In probably the most powerful indictment of current e-learning practices that I have ever read, Ethan Edwards asks Why Do We Continue to Perpetuate and Promote Ineffective E-Learning? He explains that in his contact with instructional designers, he has noticed that … Following tradition, doing what is recommended by many authoring tools, and patterning one’s work after […]

Here is my choice of MUST READs  from the posts, articles and videos I tweeted in June. These are the ones that stopped me in my tracks, made me think or inspired me. Find the others in my 2014 Reading List. Do you want transformation or tinkering?, Euan Semple (5 June 2014) writes “In the face of this pain tinkering […]