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A while back I asked the question “Who’s Your Chief Learning Officer?” and offered my own brief description of that position as: Someone who is empowered to make strategic decisions and see that they get implemented? (Chief) Someone who thinks beyond educational events and training to consider the full richness and complexity of knowledge management and capability building in your …
An attendee at one of our Webinar’s on learning market trends told me afterwards that one of the trends we identified made her quite worried. Fortunately, she was in a position to take action. Her organization – quite wisely – keeps a pool of surplus funds that can be allocated to special initiatives. She immediately …
The end of the year tends to be a time for looking back and reflecting – and then looking forward. Given what I do for a living, it is natural that part of my gazing out into the future would involve learning. While there are many exciting trends emerging and evolving right now, I thought …
I’m not a Sunday morning talk show pundit or a basher of Obamacare, so I didn’t really expect to weigh in on the recent online insurance exchange Web site debacle Then I came across a recent by Michael Wolff in USA Today titled “How CEOs are clueless about technology.”
I didn’t even watch Project Runway this year, but earlier this month I met Justin LeBlanc, one of this season’s finalists. He was being interviewed on My Carolina Today, as was I (in my poetry guise). LeBlanc teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (just down the road from Tagoras headquarters), and he used …
Yesterday I attended the eLearning Guild’s Webinar “Collecting *Useful* Learning Data.” They had me at the title—that asterisk-sandwiched word useful is oh so important.
I love language—I’m a part-time poet and a full-time grammar geek. So my short commute got sweeter yesterday when I caught Lucy Kellaway (the management columnist at the Financial Times) on BBC Newshour, “tackling” the abuse of language. (Kellaway’s commentary starts around the 24-minute mark of the podcast. You can also read her comments on …
If you are looking for a conversation starter to help spark innovate thinking about the future of your education business, this may be just the tool you need. KnowledgeWorks, an education foundation, recently released the above infographic on the future of learning along with its Forecast 3.0. I highly recommend downloading, reading, and sharing the …
This post has nothing to do with singing (you wouldn’t want to hear me singing anyway; Jeff, yes, but not me) and everything to do with the two types of massive open online courses, or MOOCs: cMOOCs and xMOOCs.
In the past week I’ve read two recent pieces on Millennials, or Gen Yers, and the pieces provide a nice point and counterpoint. Namely, here’s what Millennials want and believe, and here’s why it’s ridiculous to talk about what Millennials, monolithically, want and believe.
The issue of college education—is it still relevant? is it worth the financial investment? what are the alternatives?—has cropped up on on my radar several times of late. Last Tuesday the Brookings Institution issued the report Should Everyone Go to College? (Spoiler alert: The answer to the report title’s question is no.) Last Wednesday Diane …
You probably know it better as Tin Can, the popular name that’s stuck and been embraced by Rustici Software (the developers of the API), although Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) prefers calling it the Experience API, or even xAPI. No matter what we call it, though, it’s the first step in a comprehensive vision for the …