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Open source in corporate learning – The need to take it seriously.

The world of learning has been buffeted by the GFC and its after effects. Almost all forms of learning have been impacted. In Australia, as in other parts of the world, corporate training budgets have been [...]

WARNING, social netWORK AHEAD

I’ve been reading with interest recent articles and blog posts proclaiming that social practices won’t work in the enterprise. Posts such as ‘You ready to fail at social networking’ and the excellent post from Jeevan Joshi [...]

Find the need, demonstrate the value

In order to understand a tool, you have to use it. In order to understand its value you have to apply its use to something to see whether it improves a task or an issue. Until [...]

Do you need a fix?

The fix I am of course referring to is the good old prefix, more specifically the prefix used to identify types of learning delivery methods. The most notorious being the ‘e’ in e-learning and more recently [...]

Social media: It’s not about the technology!

As an enterprise, Acme Corporation is “dipping its toes” into social media. It might be said it’s adopting a cautious, almost experimental approach to the concept. While the organisation has invested in social technology, and maybe [...]

4 reasons why employee social learning will fail at work

Yes, I know that Facebook has 23 million users. Yes, I see people on Facebook everywhere I look – on the trains, at traffic lights and when at work. Personally I spend more time than I should on [...]

Did anyone ask if you wanted email?

At my last post The Effectiveness of Learning – Ready Set Go (Part 2) which discussed the implementation of e-learning, I mentioned I’d write next about a implementation that was surprisingly and refreshingly simple. For many [...]

Learning through Games – From Warcraft to Workcraft?

Learning Cuppa from the UK I recently had the pleasure of attending an eLearning Innovation Seminar organised by digital learning company Intelligo and PIXELearning – a world-leading provider of immersive learning simulations and ‘serious games’. The [...]

Steve Jobs and Lessons for Designing Learning

Update : With great regret I have to update this blog to include the news of Steve Jobs passing away. – Jeevan Steve Jobs and his philosophy of product design have some powerful lessons for designing learning “products” that [...]

Blended Learning : What’s in a name

The term “Blended Learning” is regularly tossed around, but, do we really understand what it means? There are many opinions but here is my take. Higher education institutions may have a different view of blended learning, but as [...]