A list of conferences in Australia related to learning and development by Ryan Tracey.
A Lesson For Me on Posts Written By ChatGPT
Argh. 🤣🤔 I read this post by David Hopkins and it resonated with me wholeheartedly. Until I read the bottom line that it was written by ChatGPT. 😳 Geez. It was good. It pulled at me heart strings because it resonated with my own experiences with blog writing! My lesson? Despite the sentiment and similar […]
The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2022
Jane Hart has published her annual survey for the Top 100 Learning Tools for 2022 and it’s interesting. Here’s the detailed analysis. I like looking through these lists because it gives a good snapshot of what people are using out there and what’s trending or falling by the wayside. What struck me is that Twitter […]
Top Tools for Learning 2022
It’s that time of the year again to submit for Jane Hart’s Top Tools for Learning. I’ve been doing this every year since 2012 she created this annual program which has now become a record of how the tools for my personal learning have changed over the years. This year has been a complete flip […]
Updating my YouTube Channel
For the last week or so, I’ve been trying to put some semblance of order on my YouTube channel and in frustration, I’ve realised it’s a MASSIVE job. There are over 400 videos on the site and as it’s a channel that is used as a record of work and learning, a portfolio if you […]
On Virtual Facilitation
Back in 2013, I was working for the National Australia Bank and part of the Digital Learning Team responsible for the rollout of skills programs in virtual facilitation, virtual meetings and Learning How to Learn Online for the entire bank. Our team designed and developed the suite of these courses (I remember those Facilitator Guides […]
Lifelong Learning as a Human Right
I’m reading a book by Daniel Susskind called A World Without Work and it makes for some fascinating reading. Once I finish it and have a chance to put some thoughts on paper about it, I’ll share a video review on YouTube. This year I’ve been reflecting on a lot of things namely, trying to […]
Learning Uncut Podcast
Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Michelle Ockers (@MichelleOckers) who has the Learning Uncut podcast. New #LearningUncut Ep 67 explores #Collaboration & #SocialLearning, reducing reliance on “go-to” people in organisations, supporting people to connect, work and learn in digital spaces & so much more. For full Ep highlights click here: https://t.co/gceygOPIgh #Podcast […]
Everyone is Talking Learning But Beware the Myths
So a funny thought has been swirling around in my head lately. It’s because I’ve been in a few situations with people outside my field of Learning and Development and on various conferences unrelated to this field, who are now talking about the importance of professional development. Given the pace of change that we’ve all […]
How to Prepare Yourself for a Future of Learning
Yesterday I had a lot of fun being part of Table Talks for Microsoft Ignite. Table Talks are 30 minute Teams Meetings that simulate the ’round the table’ talks we have at conferences. A group of us Mathew, Megan, Pradeep and Renganathan worked together to devise a high level outline of what we wanted to […]
How Effective Are Newsletters as Personal Learning Resources?
A couple of days ago, Ramses Oudt @rroudt tweeted an excellent question on Twitter that generated a discussion concerning who writes newsletters focussed on learning how to learn. You can see the thread here which has some recommendations although I might add that many of them aren’t about tips, techniques and strategies for learning how […]
My Top Ten Learning Tools for 2020
It’s that time again where it’s time to list our top 10 learning tools for the year and submit our responses to Jane Hart’s annual Top Learning Tools survey. Why not take the time to consider what tools you use on a daily basis to learn from and with and share your results too? I’ve […]
Flip The Way You Think About Work
One of the things that has been surprising to me during this period of isolation with COVID19 and working with companies who are moving their operations and teamwork to an online format into MS Teams and other collaboration software is this MYTH that you can easily move what was delivered face-to-face BC (Before Corona) automatically […]
Are Competency Frameworks A Thing Anymore?
Back when I was working in corporate learning and development, when the mere mention of the two words “competency frameworks” in any team meeting, there was an audible groan. My experience of these have always been negative. Although I’ve never been involved in creating one, it seemed that I was always in departments that had […]
Don’t Wait Around for Learning to Happen to You
It strikes me as weird to have to say this but if you’re not actively learning something new in your work day, no matter how small, then how on earth are you surviving the mind numbing work day? This could mean: A tip a co-worker shared about streamlining a process that helps minimise some time […]
Working Through My Process of A Presentation
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been mulling over what I’m going to talk about at LearnTec2020 which will be hosted in Karlsruhe in Germany next year on 28-30 January. I was kindly invited to speak at this conference by Jane Hart whose work I have followed, shared and respected for many years now. […]
What’s My Scene?
Forgive me father, it’s been a while since my last blog post. I have a confession to make. I have not been feeling my best of late. In fact, I’ve been feeling like shite ever since coming back from holidays. It’s been difficult to switch my mind back into a productive mode and continue doing […]
Learning Is A Series of Little Experiments
Since finishing up my employment contract at an insurance company in mid-June this year, I have been reflecting that everything I learned about my field of Learning and Development has come about from a series of little experiments across multiple fields and different interests outside my field. I’m very much a dabbler and an explorer […]
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 […]
Inspire Learning in the Workplace
This article was published in the Modern Workplace Learning Magazine on 2 February 2017 to inspire learning in the workplace. I don’t know about you but it’s rare that any mandated traditional training inspires me anymore. Whether it’s completing annual compliance e-learning programs sitting on an LMS or being told by a manager that I […]