After four days and thirteen sessions, I’m not sure AI really was the story of the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum. It was everywhere, obviously. But the more interesting conversations were about what happens to L&D when producing learning gets easier. Day 4 reinforced that from four different directions. Thrive talked about connecting systems rather than… Read More Four days later
Before I review the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum, I want to point out the help and support the chairs offered across the four days. It’s easy to overlook what the role involves. A chair needs to understand what the session is trying to do, know enough about the subject to ask useful questions, prepare with… Read More Take a chair
I was looking something up the other day. It was the origin of “learning in the flow of work”, a phrase you’ll have seen in slide decks, vendor brochures, conference keynotes and job adverts. The source I found said the term was coined by Josh Bersin in 2018. Plenty of others say the same. I… Read More Who said that first?
I was working with a group last week and mentioned how the last decade has thrown up three substantial shocks to society, the economy and the workplace. In 2016, the UK voted for Brexit and began three years of debate about what would happen with work. In 2019 and 2020, Covid changed where we worked… Read More Culture shocks
It’s Day 4 of the Learnign Technologies Autumn Forum today. Day 3 kept coming back to the same question: is AI changing L&D, or just helping us do familiar things faster? Lori Niles-Hofmann talked about moving beyond the course towards orchestration, connecting data, systems, content, practice and business need. Noorie Sazen argued for preparing people… Read More What’s really changing?