Meat Proxy, Faux Work

I heard a term from Dr David Love at the Autumn Forum that I rather liked. Faux work. It’s used to describe people using AI to correspond with each other, producing emails, reports and responses that give the appearance of work without necessarily achieving very much. Then I read a piece last week by Alf… Read More Meat Proxy, Faux Work

Where did everyone go?

Meg Peppin tagged me in a post a couple of weeks ago asking if I was still blogging. She’d noticed that a few people whose writing she liked seemed to have vanished from LinkedIn and wondered where we’d all gone. I haven’t gone anywhere. I publish on my website every day and on LinkedIn on… Read More Where did everyone go?

Four days later

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

What’s really changing?

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?

Beyond content

Today is day 3 of the Learning Technologies Autumn Forum. What was interesting was how day 2 came back to the same issue from three quite different directions: content isn’t the hard bit. Lavinia Mehedintu used behavioural science to look beyond capability to the conditions that allow behaviour to change and argued for L&D to… Read More Beyond content