While I was away I realised the problem so many learning teams have with social learning. They want to regulate the learning part when it’s the social part which drives it. But you can’t regulate the social bit without becoming the social police. Learning people then spend more energy on limiting the learning bit in… Read More The problem with social learning
I keep hearing about working from home (WFH) data and research but little on learning from home (LFH). Where is the data on learning from home? Learning teams: If you’re not collecting it, why not? On average, about 30% of knowledge worker time is spent working from home and you should know how much of… Read More LFH
One reason I blog is to have a record of things I’ve spoken to people about. Some 1100+ posts later there’s a lot of advice in this record. If you tried to read these articles in date order, they’d have some sense but the nature of how I write means there is little order or… Read More Offering advice
If the strategic vision of your sponsors is to ‘do’ learning in a different way, that’s not a strategic vision. Inform your sponsors – learning is changing and a supply driven approach won’t work. A strategic vision of learning is more than delivery – it’s design, evaluation and purpose before you think about delivery.
I mentioned recently that your users are the people who should be your guide to your design. I saw a post by Rich Millington a couple of days ago where he describes community design issues: The more research we do, the more I’m convinced most community professionals completely misunderstand how members use their sites and… Read More Learning design without data
Lost and Desperate 