On Friday, I headed over to my parents and walked into my father’s art studio to check out what he was up to. He had been watching YouTube videos on how to do book binding and was on a roll with creating these for himself. As an artist, he had a lot of loose leaf […]
Social Learning Is Personal
Ever since late last year, I’ve been revisiting my old work, blog posts, and references sitting in Evernote folders to do with connectivism and came up with the thought that, “social learning IS personal”. Let me explain. For the last few years, working as an independent consultant has been challenging to say the least. It necessitated […]
Return to Roots
For a while now, I’ve been contemplating a return to roots. In the last few months from the tail end of annus horribilis that was 2017 to now, a series of events – mainly due to conversations and collaborations with people outside my field of corporate learning and development, has made me reflect on the […]
Social Learning – It’s Not What You Think
A couple of weeks back I was invited by Brenden Carter, Creative Director and General Manager of Learning Hook to be a guest on their podcast. The invite was immediately accepted. I have known Brenden for many years and we even worked together for a while. I have the highest respect for his work because he’s […]
Work Book Clubs As Social Learning Experiences
I’m putting it out there. I don’t understand people who say that they never read books – or even worse, “never have time to read a book”. They may as well say that they don’t value their own growth and personal development. The easiest way to learn something new and incorporate it into our lives […]
The Enigma Around Social Learning
I’m convinced that there’s an enigma around social learning. Recently I presented at the eLearning Instructional Designer’s Meetup and I had a massive realisation. Learning and Development don’t really understand what social learning is and the business doesn’t care much about it. It was confirmed by a quick survey I created and disseminated on Yammer […]
4 Myths of Social Learning
This article was published on 27 January 2017 in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine. Social Learning In the last couple of years, I have spoken to many corporate Learning and Development practitioners about how they may support and enable opportunities for their workforce to learn collaboratively with each other in and during the flow of their […]
Learning is Personal
Recently I worked on a small project with a corporate to provide feedback on their design specification of a social learning program that was going to be delivered through their Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) platform. There were many moving parts to this project simply because it was the first time the Learning and Development team […]
Share How You Work Out Loud and Win Free Tickets
Here’s a chance for you to share how you work and loud and you may win a free ticket to an upcoming online virtual event. (Yay! Freebies!) What is this event? Well it’s called Immersion (#LDImmersion) and eight speakers will share their ideas on how to inspire social learning and collaboration in your workplace. Hosted by Karen […]
How Do We Work Together?
One of the questions I get asked often by people looking to employ my services is, “How do we work together?” So I thought I’d share my answer here. One of the difficult things I’ve gone through in the last two years as an independent consultant is exactly defining the one thing that I most […]