Sometimes as trainers, we wonder how our learners can ever take on board what is set before them. This could be for various reasons: it may …
Coronavirus and the Online Learning Conundrum
Corona virus is completely changing our world, including how we all now learn. What we once learnt in person is now learnt online. Which creates the content provider’s conundrum.
Digital Learning in a Community of Practice
Silence. Total silence. It came after one highlight for me of the Digital Education Masters course I was doing through Edinburgh University. Two world experts in their field had been…
The Power of Peer Review and Implications for Digital Learning
There were many challenges throughout that course. Electricity was intermittent. English, the language of communication, had varying levels of understanding among participants. But the biggest challenge was the cultural shift…
Why I believe in adult learning principles
One of my great passions in life is helping learners best to learn and I believe that a big part of this is applying adult learning principles to how training…
Digital training – for cutting costs or improving learning?
In an earlier post, I asked if digital training was inevitable yet inferior. Now I consider a further question. Is introducing digital training about cutting costs or about improving learning…
Digital training – inevitable yet inferior?
(First in a few posts on a digital approach to adult learning) One of my great passions in life is using adult education theory to create learning centered training –…
Getting information to actually inform … with help from a surprising source
First of all, the person who was the surprising source, then how they helped me to get information to actually inform. It was one person I didn’t expect to encounter…