I was on the #tzchat this week tweeting about social learning. It seems to have been successful, with 4 interesting questions posed and a breadth of opinions expressed in people’s responses. Someone asked me this morning what I did and I spent 2 minutes explaining (badly) the work I do. That prompted me to think… Read More Need SoMe help…
Implicit This blog was meant to be about the ownership of learning activity, but as I was writing it, I thought it might be more fun to recount some ideas about participant motivation to attend training. There seems to be an implicit expectation that people ‘own their own development’. I’ve seen the phrase in policies, heard it… Read More Who are you?
I was reading through this article on the Science Daily site and thought about it in the context of L&D. Most importantly, it highlighted an issue that I’ve seen in L&D for some time; that being how the fear of creativity can impinge on trainers’ capacity to ‘sell’ a new idea. It’s a question I… Read More Train to sustain?
Image courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net I had an interesting conversation today about whether to issue a certificate to an elearning user for completing a non-accredited course. It seems simple enough – put the effort in and you get an acknowledgement of your performance. However, does the certificate actually have any value? I recognise that an individual wants… Read More I think I should be certified…
Lost and Desperate 