This quick blog is to give some resources about how we learn. This will hopefully help with your learning intervention design and delivery. Lack of evidence for learning styles I know learning styles (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and others) feels really intuitive. I used learning styles at one time too, as I know how much I …
How we learn (spoiler: it’s not learning styles) Read More »
I’ve been delivering virtual training for over a decade (yes, even before Covid), and over that time, and particularly since technology really took off around 2015, I’ve learnt a lot about how to use IT to present an engaging training course online. My top advice which I give to people trying to get to grips …
Recreating the face-to-face experience in virtual training Read More »
In the last year and a half, pretty much the whole working world went virtual during the Coronavirus pandemic. Whether it was meetings or conferences, the use of Zoom, Teams and so on sky rocketed, “Zoom fatigue” became a thing and we often felt the disconnect when were previously used to so much face-to-face contact. …
Virtual classrooms – it’s all about the human connection! Read More »
An interaction is about two or more people communication. It’s all about a response from or discussion with attendees. In live online learning sessions this would be via the platform you are using to connect (Zoom, Webex, Teams, Connect etc) and using the tools available to you. This could be a closed question with a …
Live online learning design: interactions and activities Read More »
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 of the hosting for this year, there are a few small but interesting observations I …
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 to help us with our approach to what we do on social media, either professionally …
