Question from a client: We’re rolling out workshops about a new people development process. We want to use e-learning to reach the people we miss. How should we go about it? Should we use e-learning via the LMS or video on the intranet? This is a good question. Of course the question should be linked directly to purpose,...Read More

My EdD Supervisor is Emeitus Paul Hager, an educational philosopher who keeps it ‘real’ for me when it comes to the inter-relationship between learning and technology. I recently read a number of Paul’s papers about learning in the workplace. Paul and colleagues have described the evolution of learning theories in the context of workplace learning, and...Read More

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to attend the inaugral LearningCafe Unconference last Thursday. I hadn’t been to an unconference before, and was looking forward to some serious debate and critical thinking about some important issues facing our practice. Unfortunately I did miss the final 2 hours of the program, and so I did not hear...Read More

Part of my job is to provide e-learning strategy support to clients. I have a number of processes for this kind of engagement, and E-Learning Academy members to have access to an e-learning course on Strategy, and a number of other tools and resources. Top line tips for developing an e-learning strategy 1. Talk with other organisations about...Read More

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about social media tools for learning, and made the statement that such learning strategies are usually best managed decentrally. There may be a central role in purchasing social media platforms (with stakeholder input). However, the sense of community generally required for social media to become imbedded in an...Read More

A number of years ago I was impressed by the writing of Stephen Kemmis, in particular his 2004 article Five traditions in the study of practice. Kemmis was synthesising work by Jürgen Habermas (1987) Lifeworld and System. What I got from the article are the following concepts. And they make sense to me from a pragmatic...Read More

Last week I blogged about what’s required organisationally for self-service learning to become part of a deliberate learning strategy. Today I’d like to explore a little more about the role of manager. Now, from the onset Id like to say that a learning strategy should include both the promotion of learning self-service and manager as...Read More

ASTD’s December 2011 T&D Magazine features a discussion on Self-Service Learning (by Patricia A McLagan), and the role of L&D to “help learners make learning more effective, efficient, productive, innovative and fun” (pp 37). From my experience, for self-service learning to become part of a deliberate learning strategy, we need: Staff who have the skills...Read More

Compliance e-learning – the bane of many an e-learning developer. Why? Because there is often a mismatch in e-learning design expectations between the subject mattter expert and the learning professional that understands the difference between content and application. For the SME, they want to ensure staff know the content of a policy (e.g. Code of conduct, IT security,...Read More