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What Learners Want – Part 4 – The ‘momentum’

We accepted that despite our best efforts to promote the survey that it would inevitably be ‘lost’, ‘missed’ or just ‘forgotten about’ by many people, so we needed a plan to maintain the momentum of the marketing campaign.

Here’s that cunning plan…

What Learners Want – Part 3 – The ‘marketing’

With the questions that would be included in our Learner Survey finalised, this 3rd post within the series describes the marketing and engagement campaign that took place up to and including the launch of the survey…

What Learners Want – Part 2 – The ‘questions’

Having decided to undertake a Learner Survey within my organisation, this second part of the blog series examines the rational behind the questions contained in the survey…

Thinglink

Regular readers will know that I’m an advocate of maximising the technologies that we already have at our disposal, I’ve even facilitated some online and f2f sessions around this subject in which I encouraged people to look under the bonnet of the tools and platforms that they already had. One of the tools whose ‘hidden functionality‘ I’ve discussed in the past is Flickr’s ability for people to be able to add ‘hotspots’ to images and then add text to those hotspots, here’s an example. Whilst this is a great idea, the fact that you have...

Intranet scoping

Regular readers of my blog and social media followers will know that I’m not a huge fan of click-next, self-paced eLearning. Sure, there’s a time to wrap the whole learning experience up in a SCORM object, bury it deep within a Learning Management System and track the bejesus out of everything. (When I say everything, of course I’m not actually referring to whether the learner has been able to synthesise the content and has an ability to recreate it in the real world and the subsequent business impact, I’m actualy talking out who did it, when they did it, what score...

My top 10 Learning Tools for 2011

It’s that time of the year again folks when Jane Hart is reminding us all to submit our ‘Top 10 Learning Tools 2011/of the year’. This is something that I contributed to for the first time last year and it was interesting to see where my preferred tools came in the ‘Top 100′ ranking structure that Jane works out from all of our submissions, it is also a great place to catch wind of any new tools that are out there. I am once again contributing to this years list, however I have decided to take a different tack. Whereas my list last year probably (I say probably...