5 myths of time management reprised
I saw that AccountingWeb have republished some tips on time management that I wrote back in 2005. If nostalgia about music goes in 20 year cycles, it seems like the web is going for 5 year cycles…...
View ArticleTips on e-learning questions
Hope that Christmas and the festive season treats you excellently. Here’s a small gift of knowledge that I’ve been pleased to share, via the e-learning industry’s advent calendar, 24 tips:...
View ArticleWhat can L&D learn from marketing?
For months I’ve been immersed in the zone where marketing and learning overlap – helping marketers become as confident and astute with digital media as they are with traditional media. Although...
View ArticleProfessional Services e-learning Forum meeting 14 March
As an L&D professional working in one of the UK’s leading accountancy or legal firms, do you wonder how other firms are taking advantage of mobile and social technologies in L&D? Why not find...
View ArticleWhat is social learning?
Last week I attended #SLCONF , a conference on social learning. Social learning is a zeitgeisty term which is very much in the early stages of the Gartner hype cycle for most organisations. I...
View ArticleMad about mobile ?!
If you believe the hype, we’re on the cusp of another revolution in online learning and this time it’s mobile. Is it time to hide behind your Gartner curve or are you are already getting stuck in and...
View ArticlePitfalls in mobile learning #2: What’s your user’s state of mind?
As people in business become ever more time-pressured, it’s harder for L&D to reach them with them with content that is useful. Mobile offers the opportunity to reach people in situations where...
View ArticlePitfalls in mobile learning #4: Are you really compatible?
Many development tools claim that they produce learning content which will publish automatically to different models of mobile phone. So for the L&D manager commissioning mobile learning it’s just...
View ArticleFive key questions when buying e-learning
For many years I’ve designed practical e-learning to help explain the tricky technical intricacies of CPD topics to accountants. I thought I’d flip this around to invest some time demystifying the...
View ArticlePitfalls in mobile learning #5:
Although this is my fifth pitfall it’s probably the most fundamental – it’s just that I was hoping that this time round the e-learning industry had got its heads round the idea that emerging...
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News is bad for you
A really thought-provoking article by Ralf Dobelli (based on a longer essay) about information overload and in particular, news. To pick out some headlines, “news inhibits thinking, kills creativity,...
View ArticleCuration 101
Just when you thought you had enough e-learning buzzwords, curation came along. For those who like definitions “Content Curation is the act of discovering, gathering, and presenting digital content...
View ArticleIs Enterprise search the answer to L&D’s interruption problem?
How easy is it to find the information that you need for your job within your organisation? Probably a lot more difficult and frustrating than using a search engine to find public information… My...
View ArticleHow would you design learning with an unlimited budget?
Recently I was given what many instructional designers would consider the best brief ever: there’s unlimited budget, there’s no major urgency, just come up with something innovative and interesting....
View ArticleProfessional services e-learning forum achieves ten
7th July sees the 10th meeting of the Professional services e-learning forum, an informal networking and benchmarking group for L&D professionals working for the UK’s top 15 accountancy and top 15...
View ArticleIs this compliance story too close to home?
Learners are used to compliance e-learning. Anyone in a big company is used to having several mandatory modules a year to complete so the game becomes “how can I do this as quickly as I can and get my...
View ArticleFive ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence
Last week I had the privilege of judging the e-learning awards (obviously my lips are sealed as to who the winners are until the awards dinner). Naturally some of the entries had other ingredients that...
View ArticleHow well do you really know your learners?
It is a truth universally acknowledged in any presentation skills or business writing course that you need to get to know your audience – that way, whatever your message, you can gauge useful things...
View Articlee-learning professionals “the cobbler’s children with no shoes”
At a recent Professional Services e-learning Forum, L&D teams were likened to “cobbler’s children with no shoes”. This allegory describes the phenomenon where professionals are so busy with work...
View ArticleEscaping from the compliance e-learning cul-de-sac
Much of the e-learning that professional firms offer is compliance-based. The risk is that poor compliance e-learning ends up tainting learners’ expectations of e-learning (this is sometimes referred...
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