Technology and emerging practices in organisational learning & development
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2009
I attend the Learning Technologies Conference when I can because it keeps me honest. The room is full of 200 passionate educators all striving to best apply learning technologies to their milieu to improve student engagement and learning outcomes. The audience are chiefly teachers in institutions where courses are mandatory and students are working towards [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2009
As an organisation develops their e-learning strategy, an important component is to ensure a shared understanding of learning philosophy and quality standards also evolves. What will be the quality standards to which we measure success? What is the quality standards we wish our L&D department to be measured against? What is our shared understanding of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2008
I have been communicating with an officer who supports leadership on a RAN ship. We have been writing, amongst other things, about the motivation of learning. Learning, drilling, getting on with one another are critical on a fighting ship. In a commercial organisation, getting people to stop, reflect, consider meta-perspectives is challenging when the perceived [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2008
My article Informal workplace learning and the role of technology: Transforming L&D Practice which summarises my 2006 MA (e-Learning) research has been published in February 2008 Training and Development Journal (AITD). For a copy, click on the hyperlink below: Informal workplace learning and the role of technology: Transforming L and D practice
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2007
The Sun Herald, Dec. 2, 2007, pp 18. ‘Woolies failed to protect me’. By Eamonn Duff “When I joined in October 2004 I was shown a video which focused on bullying. It failed to prepare me for what followed”. Michael (not his real name), age 19. CT comment: This article appears a humble reminder for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2007
For most organisations, strategy evolves something like this… 1. Changes in environmental trends are detected, or some other dis-ease or trigger is detected, causing core management to strategise from a new paradigm. 2. Advice, information on best practice, competitor trends etc are examined within the mileau of the organisation. 3. Decisions are made upon the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2007
Yesterday I spoke with a colleague and we discussed a phonomenom commonly experienced with IT project implementation. Strategy can be well thought out and tested, IT implementation smooth and straight forward…then the project is handballed to the business…and then it stalls. Why? There is no one answer to this question. I’ll explore the factors as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2007
This is the description given to me by my EdD lecturer as we discussed developing my research proposal. I’ve been chewing on this statement a great deal, and it has helped me to re-evaluate my research focus. “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction”. Every solution developed by organisations, open source communities or whoever, [...]
