Month: February 2011
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Virtual Worlds and Training.
Elearning is a difficult concept for many people to get their head around. Introduce the concept of virtual worlds into the elearning mix and you see most trainers’ eyes glaze over. It’s just a little too far out there for most of them. It is easy to understand why if you haven’t actually experienced a…
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Daniel H Pink
In todays post I thought I would introduce you to a very smart guy, Daniel H Pink who has written some very clever books and has a good blog worth looking at. For trainers an important book is his book called Drive which is all about motivation. I haven’t got to the other two yet…
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More storming of the brain – but in a fun way
I have featured on a number of occasions some very good brainstorming and mind-mapping e-tools. Here is a list of five brainstorming tools from Makeuseof. The only on here that I can personally vouch for is Scribblar which is an excellent online drawing tool but also great for communication. It is currently free but with…
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Language, words, human behaviour
I have written many posts on the importance of words to trainers. Here is another of those great videos from RSA on Language as a window into human nature. Strange that this video is about language (words) but realies heavily on pictures (graphics). Pinker’s speech would be as good if it wasn’t backed up by…
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Virtual Opportunities
I am constantly amazed by how we can now experience different environments without actually being there in person. To a certain extent this is not an expensive process and can be turned into some very powerful learning opportunities. Check out this 360 degree view of a A380 flight deck. This could be further enhanced with…
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Professional Development
Every trainer needs to include at least some professional development in each year’s calendar. That may not be of a formal type like a seminar or an actual training course but can include reading a few good texts, reading some useful blogs and listening to some related podcasts. I came across two good seminars this…
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Project Management Software (e-learning tool of the week)
I have written in previous posts that all good trainers need to have at least some basic project management skills. The whole process of training from TNA to actual delivery is a quite a complex project. On the really big training roll-outs a full on project management approach is required. The standard software in the…
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The 2011 Horizon Report
The Horizon report is always an interesting read. It attempts to predict the emerging technologies which will have the greatest effect on teaching, learning and creative inquiry. Always a good read. Something that is really interesting to me is game based learning which has a section in the report. If you want a good overview…
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Hire for attitude, train for skill
TUDE That post heading isn’t one of my own inventions. I have borrowed it from an article I just read recently (click here). I think I have heard something like this before but the article really brings home the importance of an employee’s attitude. In particular the point that you probably can not change a…
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Gen Y – why the fuss?
I have read a great deal about the different generational groups and it is interesting reading but should we be concerned as trainers about what this means to learning and education? I think that maybe there is too much emphasis on the generational differences at time. We all have brains and we all learn essentially…