What is worth learning?
What is worth learning in the eyes of your learners? This might sound like a strange question, but is it not the most important and fundamental question that all learning professionals should be asking? How much time are we wasting on ‘unworthy learning’. In this…
How can you develop a learning culture?
How can you develop a learning culture in your organisation? We know of so many customer stories in which major investments in and/or opportunities for organisational learning remained untapped and simply wasted. Just how many course enrolments, or better, still course completions, where actually made…
Improving learner engagement
How can you improve your learner engagement with eLearning? Data analytics is a current hot topic both in the L&D world and in the wider organisational context in general. In many organisations LMS data analytics can reveal a depressing story in terms of the levels…
Is SCORM dead?
Do SCORM courses still make a valued contribution to workplace learning strategies? SCORM-based eLearning content continues to dominate the course catalogues on many an organisation’s LMS platform. Is this simply due to an unwillingness to let go of what at some time in the past…
Do people like studying eLearning?
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARNERS IS A GOOD LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND NOT THE MEANS OF DELIVERY For some years I have been promoting that working learners (as opposed full-time students) are seeking what I call a ‘J3’ learning experience: ‘Just-in-Time, Just-Enough, Just-for-Me’ The ways in which the…
SKILLS SHOULD WE DEVELOPING IN OUR PEOPLE KNOW FOR THEIR FUTURE SUCCESS AT WORK?
There is a great deal of research out there in the public domain that explores and analyses what skills employers are seeking most in their new recruits. From an HR perspective, Talent teams will do their best to gain these skills from the external workforce, but…
Is Performance Improvement your Goal?
LEARNING IN ITSELF SHOULD NOT BE YOUR GOAL Working in a learning & development, people development or a similar such operational team is more about performance improvement than it is about learning. Learning is simply one of the methods to improve your peoples’ productivity and consequently organisational performance….
When did I last learn something new and important?
What learning processes are really driving our personal development and growth? Of course, taken literally, the answer for most of us to when we last learnt something new will be sometime in the last few minutes or hours of our wake time as we are…
J3 Learning – it is what all our learners seek
‘Just-in-Time, Just-Enough, Just-for-Me’ When we lead busy lives investing time in personal and career development can be hard to find as we are increasingly time-poor with many competing work as well as personal needs for our time. Yet it is our knowledge, skills and expertise that…
How should you evaluate the quality of an eLearning course?
Apply PRAISE to evaluate eLearning content Faced with this challenge, the eLearning cynics of the world would probably respond with ‘why even bother, all eLearning is boring however you look at it!’. We, of course, would not agree. Yes, it is true that there is…