One big moment of teaching need
I feel negative, upset and like a failure. I’ve come home early from a Sunday afternoon class that should have been fun, interesting and a safe place to learn a new skill. Instead, I’ve wasted my money and my time….
Design | Facilitation | L&D
Facilitator guides and lesson plans – top tips!
I have a free live online facilitator guide template, or lesson plan, that you can download and use for your webinar and virtual classroom planning and delivery. In this blog post I am going to look through the history of…
Live online reflections
For the third year running I’ve hosted the live online presentations as part of the Learning Technologies Awards. It’s 60 presentations over two weeks, so that’s about 180 sessions I’ve hosted over the years. As I come to the end…
Virtual classrooms in numbers
How long should a virtual classroom session be? Half an hour, all day? How many people, six? 15? It’s a challenge to know what is right. Often people ask me how many people should be in a virtual classroom. I…
L&D Podcasts
I love listening to podcasts and often people ask me what I recommend. In no particular order, here they are. If I’ve missed yours or one you like, let us know in the comments. Truth in Learning from Will Thalheimer…
That webinar software is rubbish!
I was speaking with someone a while ago about live online learning. They were commenting on a webinar they had attended: there were some positives, which I love hearing, and some criticism, which is annoying as I want live online…
What makes you passionate about L&D?
This is a great question posed to me ahead of the launch of Jolt’s Business Education Steering Committee panel I’m speaking on. I asked on Twitter and LinkedIn for people’s thoughts, and got over 30 amazing responses. I read through…
Digital body language and social media
In this post I’m going to focus on social media communication with regards our modern communications. I look at some free Twitter analysis and what changes this insight can help us with, as well as look at some other resources…
How not to sell a webinar platform
For reasons I won’t bore you with, a client needed a Cisco WebEx Training Centre licence really quickly, within a couple of days, so that I could deliver some training for them. I always joke that there’s no such thing…
Pedagogy and androgogy – what are they and are they any good?
As part of the Modern Learning Leader Programme, Stella Collins delivered a webinar on Adult Learning Theories. Stella opened with “androgogy vs pedagogy” asking why do they have to be “versus rather than and” and what the differences are. I stated…
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