A HSJ (Health Service Journal) supplement published recently looking at the Electronic Staff Records (ESR) roll out provided some stunningly encouraging information as how the NHS is using e-learning. The NHS’s ESR project is the world’s biggest programme of its kind,...
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What role should employers play in skills and education? And what role will e-learning possibly play?
As we have noted in the previous blog post, the UK government is giving increasing prominence to employer led training with now two rounds of “Employer Owned Pilots” – meaning large employers or groups of employers are developing courses to skill up their workforce....
edtech Europe: Industry, Innovation and Investors in e-learning and edtech
As the title of the event says “Industry, innovation and investors in one place for one day” this event indeed delivered, and IBIS Capital and Edxus Group deserved to be congratulated for this event that indeed brought all these parties together for an informative...
Do Badges plus Compelling Content spell the end for Instructional design?
How do we get people to take training? is a question that is asked all too frequently, and the debate appears to be moving on from the importance of instructional design to deliver engaging effective e-learning ….will we need excellent instructional design to attract...
How to evaluate e-learning content
Or how do you know if a piece of e-learning content is any good?....... The “bad rap” that e-learning gets from many learners and organisational leaders is often around the poor nature of the e-learning content that is offered. The memories of the dark days of CBT –...
Next Learning Unwrapped – Nick van Dam
I have always been a fan of Nick van Dams e-learning Fieldbook, and often refer enquirers to answer the questions posed by Nick to understand what e-learning works best for. I have now completed Nick’s 2011 book, Next Learning Unwrapped, that comes with an...
The Hierarchy of learning according to Disney, and the importance of the dream!
This is posting is taken from an earlier review we wrote of Fred Lee’s interesting book “If Disney ran Your Hospital”. We felt it prescient to highlight the interesting attitude Disney has developed toward learning and the motivation to learn – and we offer this as a...