What is the ‘real cost’ of a learning intervention? Curated #chat2lrn tweets
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on the total #cost of…
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The UK’s first corporate learning bootcamp is coming to London
The UK’s first corporate learning #bootcamp will be taking place in London on 28 October…
Is this a training problem? #chat2lrn curated tweets
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter Twitter chat entitled: “Is this a…
Learning analytics and more – an interview with Ben Betts
An interesting podcast here from Nick Ribeiro talking to #ben betts on a range of…
Launching LearnPatch Book Group #LPreads
There are undoubtedly many, many great books and reports for L&D professionals to read but…
Rob Briner: Spend longer on evidence-based decision-making
Editor’s note: A simple way to break down evidence-based decision making here. I like the assumption that senior executives are paid to make decisions, so it follows they should know how to make good ones.
Andy Wooler on learning data and xAPI
Editor’s note: Collecting the right data in the first place is going to be a key challenge for L&D professionals looking to build an evidence-based approach. Andy Wooler describes how his organisation is approaching the challenge.
Why Analytics Trumps Intuition in Today’s L&D
Editor’s note: The Towards Maturity Benchmark 2015 is now open and is an opportunity for organisations to reflect on their L&D activities and compare what they do against peers and top learning companies in their sector. This piece sets the context around the need for an evidence-based approach to L&D.
Evidence-based learning: it’s time to show what works
Editor’s note: OK, so this was written by one half of the LearnPatch team, but I still think there are some useful insights here from L&D practitioners.
Do you want to make a difference in L&D, or do you want to be liked?
Editor’s note: Evidence needn’t just apply to your own L&D initiatives, it can equally be applied to the theories that permeate L&D. Donald Taylor makes this point well and urges all L&D professionals to put evidence before learning myths.
The 70:20:10 model is flavour of the month, according to the UK Learning Trends Index
The really hot learning intervention of the moment is the #70:20:10 model. This model works…
In social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study finds
Editor’s note: Research into networks shows how ideas spread. Some good insights here into how groups affect the sharing of information across a network.
Adults and online learning: lessons from the private tuition sector
Editor’s note: This article opens with a sobering statement, “With at least a fifth of Britain’s population lacking the skills required to use the internet.” It goes on to look at how adults are learning online. Clearly technology opens many doors to learning and this piece shows that – and that many adults are lacking in the skills needed to use the web.
How we learn once more
Editor’s note: Nick Shackleton-Jones on the Affective Context Model – and how we ‘encode’ reactions that then shape our learning.
Elearning. L&D’s hard to kick habit?
Editor’s note: A simple, powerful point from Dan Roddy about thinking differently as an L&D professional.