Month: August 2012
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Possible future?
Is this what the future will look like? Google glasses (check this reference & this one as well – recent live event) come out next year. Spooky. What will an educational experience look like? Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo. A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. This is our graduation project from Bezaleal…
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Training should be simple
Experts! Definition of an expert: a person who makes the simple complex. Good training is really a pretty simple process. A made a video back in 2009 on this topic. Watch the video below though. Training should be as simple as this.
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Are you being too good for your clients
For all of the consultants, training managers and training organisations here is a short video for you on how to be great at customer service by not being great in all areas ie being disappointing at some aspects. Challenging concept but worth considering. Do you agree or not?
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Open source learning systems
I get a lot of questions about learning systems and it is always difficult to stay on top of what is happening, what is good and what doesn’t work well. Here is a list of open source systems. When I get a few minutes I am keen to get back to this list and try…
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Sunday – think Happiness
This Sunday’s think piece is about happiness. Take the video test and see what you think. Here is the research paper that goes with the video: click here Thanks go to Open Culture for this post.
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Instructional design
I have written a few posts about writing and instructional design as well as a couple videos (one is shown below). To be a great trainer you need great content. Sometimes that is easy but often it means a great deal of effort, research and creative time. Read this post about writing is acting. It…
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Online Education & Training
Finding it difficult to keep up with what is going on with online education and training. Here is a short post which lists 5 startups which are changing the online learning landscape. Worth having a look at. This is where we are heading and who knows what is just around the corner. Click here to…