Month: July 2011
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Outcomes, goals and assessment
Here is an interesting new take on setting goals or objectives (see video below). As trainers we constantly set objectives or outcomes for people or do we? I am starting to wonder how often we really do set outcomes. We talk about it a lot but how often do we actually pay that much attention…
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Meetings Bloody Meetings
Having been to a few meetings lately I often wonder why I had to go and what was achieved. There are many other ways that the information the meeting was about could have been disseminated. Don’t get me wrong there is a very good time and place for meetings but as we all know many…
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Google+ and learning
There is a lot of noise about Google+ on the internet right now. It is very new and some people have advanced access. Unfortunately I am not one of them but I have read an excellent introduction to the new social media platform. There is also a Google tour of the project. Google+ appears to…
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Business ideas and the future of learning
There is no doubt that the internet is where the future of training and assessment is located but when and what it will look like are still the two big questions. When is an illusive question as it has been predicted many times before and has always been inaccurate. Elearning keeps smoldering away, just waiting…
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WordPress iPhone App
My last post was probably a bit of a surprise as it really didn’t have anything to do with training. It was a surprise to me as well. I have been testing a new iPhone WordPress App that allows you to blog on the run. One of it’s great little features is the ability…