Insights

Fill In This Survey Please

Doug Lynch, Vice Dean of the School of Education at University of Pennsylvania and his PhD students are conducting research to measure involvement in delivery of training in organizations. They are focused on those who do not identify as T&D specialists, as well as those who do. We would ask that you circulate this survey
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George Siemens: Ideas for the Times We Live

He spoke at Learning Technologies 2009.  I know that this was in January but I wasn’t there, but I caught up via the podcast version. I have to say that it is a very good experience and it worked well for me and was a valid alternative to physical presence.  (Wish I could have attended
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Start Up the Risk Takers

An excellent piece in today’s New York Times by Thomas (World is Flat) Friedman.  He argues passionately for government to invest in the future rather than prop up the past.  He claims the best ideas come out of a recession but they ideas are more difficult to nuture and need financial support. What will get
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Packaging Digital |Handwriting

I received my new digital pen: Livescribe on Friday. Some of you have heard me whinging on about the notebook I lost in Edinburgh. It was full to the brim with 2 months of notes and ideas and it disappeared somewhere between the lecture theatre where I spoke in the evening, and the hotel room
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Let Them Tell Their Story

I am not one to quote myself. It seems terribly self-indulgent but just this once…. I was interviewed on the (now sadly defunct) ABC Media Report on Radio National on 19th October 2006 about changing media.  I was asked about the role for the ABC as media fragments, and I said: (The ABC) has a
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As Flexible as Possible

The last edition of the Economist 24th January to 30th January has a fascinating article in the Science and Technology section.  It tells us that; ‘electronic screens as thin as paper are coming soon.’ I remember being fascinated by Nicholas Negroponte’s promise that electronic paper would replace ordinary paper ‘soon’ in his book:  Being Digital
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BIG Ideas on E Learning

Just a few nuggets from my group on e Learning.  These are their important insights. Share development costs with like industries Choose the implementation team carefully Think about rapid development tools as speed can be more important that having bells and whistles Really engage with those that may be reluctant to embrace e Learning Build
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The Road to Wigan Pier

Paul Mason’s road that is. This is the blog that goes with the Newsnight report and is worth reading. It contrasts well with the previous blog about work. Paul traces George Orwell’s journey from Coventry, to Birmingham to Stoke to Wigan to look at the state of unemployment and the mood generally of the population.
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What Makes Work Great

Interesting article by Anne-Marie Fink in Talent Management Magazine. She argues that great places to work, are places with a tough performance culture that looks the world, as it is, firmly in the eye. One of the companies she cites is Southwest Airlines. She argues that it is successful, and has loyal staff, not because
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No Knee Jerks

In the last few weeks I have heard both Alan Sugar (on TV) and Richard Branson (in the newspaper) both urge companies not to knee jerk in the current financial turmoil and kick out staff to save costs.  Both said that this should be a last resort not a first step.  And Sugar said that
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