Month: July 2012
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Singapore tries a different training approach
Following the post I made recently regarding Germany here is an interesting article from Singapore. They have established a virtual world (looks like Secondlife) and the are using it to help creatives find appropriate training. The last part of the article is what caught my interest. they provide a 90 percent subsidy for training for…
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Sunday’s think piece – time
I am going to do this every Sunday from now on as my last few Sunday posts have been quite popular and break up the training and learning focus of the blog. I have a strong belief that great trainers need to develop a broad knowledge of other stuff outside of their own knowledge base…
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Germany in the fast training lane
Some of you may have read my quick blurb on vouchers and Australia’s lack of vision in regard to education and training (still waiting for a reply of the Minister). I see from a recent newspaper report that the NSW government is also about to launch into another scheme of poor planning and organisation that…
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Getting good images
One of the challenges for any trainer is getting good images for powerpoint, blogs, handouts or any other learning resource that are good quality as well as copyright free. This little application does a good job of finding good quality images for you that are covered by creative commons. You do need to download the…
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Assessment Evidence
I am trialling this simple assessment evidence gathering tool for some classes that I am currently teaching at the moment where the evidence is them actually working on the web and building web pages to reflect other content we are exploring in the program like diversity, policy implementation and networking. My initial play with this…
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Sunday Reading
I just realised that I haven’t posted anything since last Sunday. It was a very busy week but also an enjoyable week. When I am working a lot I begin to miss the things that I take for granted like reading a good book. I currently have stack of books that are piled up on…
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Sunday Learning
What did you learn this week? It’s truly a pitiful week if you haven’t learnt something. Life is far too complex and interesting not to have been exposed to something new, creative, interesting or intriguing. If you had slow week of learning then watch the video below. Time to update your knowledge of atomic particles.…
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Strategic Training
As an ex HR Manager we used to talk a lot about strategic human resources but honestly I don’t think in my experience the rest of the business perceived HR as strategic partner. We were often a pain that needed to be put up with. How much of your training and development is strategic or…
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Instructional Design Flaws
Another interesting article on instructional design flaws. I hope you find it interesting. Their three big flaws: Flaw #1: Cognitive Overload Flaw #2: Overreliance on Elaborative Studying Flaw #3: Insufficient Self-Pacing Personally the biggest flaw I find in online and class based learning is just a lack of any instructional design. It’s not rocket science…
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My Voucher System for Australia
I wrote a post the other day on the stupidity of the future voucher system and it is only fair that I put up an alternative rather than just being a whinger. Here is my plan and importantly this removes the education cash bonus and probably other schemes that I am not aware of. 1.…