This is now my fourth year in a row that I manage to do a quick visit to the Learning Technologies exhibition in London. Like last year I decided to try and speak to as many luminaries as possible and ask them what they were planning to do in the coming year. Steve Dineen Steve … Continue reading A Day of Conversations at Learning Technologies 2013
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Learning from the Outside, How External Focus Can Help Learning and Development
This presentation delivered on April 19 for the Irish Centre for Business Excellence Network tries to address why things are not changing fast enough in the (corporate) learning world by pointing out that we often fail to look to the outside. We rely on benchmarking without realising that this will never get us ahead of … Continue reading Learning from the Outside, How External Focus Can Help Learning and Development
5 Questions from Traintool: Teaching Soft Skills Online
Recently I was asked a few questions by Traintool about using training softs skills online. Below the questions and answers (the original is here, the session was in Dutch which is available here): 1. To what extent to you believe soft skills can be trained online? “Believe” is probably the right verb for this question. … Continue reading 5 Questions from Traintool: Teaching Soft Skills Online
Fosdem 2012 or Why Open Source is Still Revelant
Fosdem is the place where you'll find a Google engineer who as a "full time hobby" is lead developer for WorldForge an open source Massive Multiplayer Online game, or where you have a beer with a developer who has a hard time finding a job, because all the code he write has to have a … Continue reading Fosdem 2012 or Why Open Source is Still Revelant
Speed Dating at the 2012 Learning Technologies
On Wednesday, January 25th I attended the Learning Technologies exhibit at Olympia in London. I used agreeadate to schedule as many meetings with corporate learning luminaries as possible. Next to catching up, I decided to ask each of them the following four questions: What will be the most exciting (professional) thing you are planning to … Continue reading Speed Dating at the 2012 Learning Technologies