Designing, testing and delivering learning in a multi-device world
Once again voted one of the world's top ten elearning movers and shakers, Upside Learning founder Amit Garg gives us some great insight into designing elearning for multiple devices. The way we learn today has been revolutionised by the advancements in technology and the devices we use. Elearning, which was instituted on desktops, has […]
Three learning predictions for 2015
Filtered's Nick Fernando gives us some quick predictions for the development of learning this year. With ever increasing pressure falling on businesses, educational institutions and Government to find solutions for the UK’s growing skills gap, this year, we are going to see L&D professionals find new ways to encourage staff to undertake the right training […]
How to infuse positivity at work
Positivity isn't just about wellness. Anesh Jagtiani gives us some good ideas for a positive, productive working environment. The other day I was at a networking event and the CEO of an international company gave me his business card that said ‘CEO – Chief Emotions Officer’. I was quite intrigued by his title and asked the reason […]
Don’t waste your time with face-to-face training
Playing to the strengths of different delivery methods can help you create better value and more effective learning interventions, says Kim Whitmore. If you want to achieve maximum effectiveness from your face-to-face training interventions, and deliver real value for money, you need to ensure that any time spent in the classroom isn’t wasted. Formal learning interventions […]
From college to corporate – The first important steps on the career ladder
Prithvi Shergill looks at the important transition from college to career and how companies and employees can pave the way to a successful career. As if the time leading up to graduation would not have been demanding enough, the real challenge starts once young professionals leaving college who have managed to master job hunting and interviews have […]
L&D news round-up: 6 Nov
A positive story to end for people who work on the move, but it’s mostly lot of skills stories this week, and guess what? They’re not positive. The Silver Economy: Engineers lured back to fix ‘skills crunch’ – The Financial Times How can colleges encourage more women into leadership positions? – The Guardian Teachers ‘don’t have the […]
Should you use MOOCs in learning?
There is much to consider before incorporating MOOCs into your learning solutions, says Valerie Nichols. There is a great deal of interest in the learning community in MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – with various factions alternatively hailing MOOCs as the future of learning or decrying MOOCs as just the latest fad. So, what’s […]
How are you using lessons from neuroscience
This month the CIPD have published a report called Neuroscience in Action: Applying Insight to L+D Practice. How are you using the emerging science about how the brain works and learns to inform your learning design and delivery? I'm interested in practical applications – how has neuroscience informed your learning and change management design and […]
Five steps to thinking clearly and achieving your goals
Ashridge Business School's Valerie Pierce provides some advice for developing clear focus. Many of us admit that we find it hard to focus, blaming the distractions we have on our modern, multi-tasking, working life. We blame the countless emails, phone calls and meetings that we have to contend with during our normal working day. We […]
The science of video-based game learning
Is 2014 the year of game learning? Ibrahim Jabary makes the case. Video games are ubiquitous. Americans spent $20.5bn on video games in 2013, with over 170m Americans (60%) spending money on them. That’s 100m paying gamers with an average monthly spend of $16.50. In the U.K., the amount spent on video games in 2013 […]
Why business and academia is such a powerful combination
Andrew Carr, CEO, Bull UK & Ireland (an Atos company) looks at how business and academia can collaborate more effectively to reduce the technology skills gap TechUK’s proposal for new rules to allow more skilled technology workers into the country highlight the scale of the challenge that continues to face the UK in finding people […]
The challenge of developing effective MOOCs
Ashridge's Tony Sheehan turns his attention to MOOCs and gives us some vital pointers for success. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer both potential and pitfalls to those institutions seeking to deliver them. They have reached a point where considerable volumes of students across the world are now actively learning from many significant institutions. At […]
Lifelong learning: The only way to keep up
Stephen Walker reviews the knowledge revolution and the challenge and opportunities it represents. Technology is both the cause and solution. The rapidly increasing rate of innovation presents challenges to us all. Lifelong learning is a subject dear to me. One of my heroes is Johnny 5, star of Short Circuit, a 1986 film about an intelligent […]
How agile design creates effective learning
Agile design is a new way to quickly create learning that meets the needs of the business in a changing world, says Valerie Nichols. In the old days, designing a learning programme was a time-consuming, systematic and sequential process. Regardless of whether you’re an internal or external learning practitioner, you’d meet with your ‘client’, discuss […]
The latter-day journey of the lifelong learner
Andrew Cooksley takes a look at the evolution of the vocational training system, from its humble beginnings as a straightforward pathway from education into employment, to the flexible support system for lifelong learning it offers today. Traditionally perceived as a straightforward pathway to help 16- to 24-year-olds access the workplace straight from school, the profile […]
Time to innovate your training offering?
Don't freak out – Martin Couzins is here to talk about the 'i' word: innovation. ‘Innovate or die’ is a familiar rallying cry. If we don’t innovate, our businesses face extinction; clearly that’s a troubling thought. If you read Harvard Business Review, Business Week or Forbes you will be drip-fed articles with similar headlines on […]
News: Government-supported MOOC launched to boost cyber security skills
The first ever government-backed MOOC has been launched this week, to help equip the UK with the skills needed to tackle cyber security challenges. Developed in conjunction with the Department for Business and the Open University, the ‘Massive Open Online Course’ is available to anyone who wants to improve or develop their cyber security skills. […]
Learning Live: Keynote speaker Dr. Steve Peters
In our final piece of editorial before the event, we sat down with Learning Live keynote speaker and sports psychologist Dr Steve Peters to talk performance improvement, resilience, books and more. You’ve worked with Ronnie O Sullivan, Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and many other successful sportspeople. Are there common problems that they have all […]
News: Students told – choose vocational courses over ‘meaningless’ degrees
Too many students are pursuing “meaningless” low-level degrees rather than vocational courses, leaving the UK at risk of a deepening skills crisis, an industry qualifications body has warned. As thousands of young people prepare to collect their A-level results today, Excellence, Achievement and Learning Ltd (EAL), which oversees qualifications in sectors such as engineering, manufacturing […]
News: ‘Positive’ outcome for majority of adult learners, government claims
Nearly three quarters of adult learners who completed further education courses in 2010/11 moved into either sustained employment or learning, according to government figures. The experimental data, published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), examined the destination and progression of adults in further education in 2010/11. It revealed that, of the 1.5 […]
