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Welcome back Opera
Back in the early 2000s I used to use the Opera web browser. Then, as now, it was eclipsed by its rivals and never really got the adoption it deserved. I liked it it partly because it was a really good...
View ArticleApple – style over substance?
I’ve been a Mac user for close to ten years, but for the past six months I’ve been splitting my time pretty much equally between a Macbook Pro and Surface Book. So as someone with a foot firmly in each...
View ArticleDropping the Tech Giants
There was a nice simple interactive article published in the New York Times last week titled Which Tech Giant Would You Drop? It links to a much more in depth piece on how our lives are increasingly...
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Tips for creating learning scenarios
Recently, Bryan Jones from eLearningArt invited me and 59 other eLearning people to share their single best tip for creating effective eLearning scenarios. The post is now live, and you can check it...
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Helping CIPD support their members
For much of the last nine months I’ve been saying to people “I’m working on this amazing project, but I can’t tell you much about it at the moment”. Well, I’m pleased to say that now I can talk about...
View ArticleSpecialization, Polymaths And The Pareto Principle
Reading this article on Techcrunch I was struck by two things: Deep expertise is less and less useful If you consider just two things – the pace at which we increase our understanding of how human...
View ArticleLearn xAPI MOOC – Week 4 Reflections
Here are my thoughts after completing week 4 (the final week) of the Learn xAPI MOOC. This week is titled “Final Challenge and Post Conference Drinks” and it brings together the technical and strategy...
View ArticleOn the long slow death of Twitter
I came across this great cartoon in The Guardian over the weekend. It sums up much of what I think about Twitter – except for the final frame. The cartoon uses the analogy of Twitter being a bar and...
View ArticleMicro Learning Tools
On 11th May, along with my colleague Clive Shepherd I presented on the subject of microlearning at the CIPD L&D Show. One topic of considerable interest was the tools that you could use to create...
View ArticleWho should own your learning platform?
This week I’ve been running a workshop in which we looked at all aspects of digital learning design. Over lunch, one of the delegates asked who I thought was the right person in an organisation to own...
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