Category: Education & Training Management
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We Need One of These
We need one of these weeks. Check it out. Do you agree?
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TAFE NSW is going to change but is it for the better?
Where is education and training going? My last few blog posts have been linked and I can assure you it wasn’t planned. It is just something I have been thinking about a lot lately. My post on the second was about more educational future reports that indicate that essentially nothing will change and my post…
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A future that doesn’t look that different
Download this research paper on The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change. The most interesting thing about it is how uninteresting the future appears. This is looking to 2020 and beyond. That is 8 years away. Honestly I expect to see a lot more change than what this report expects and I have read it…
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Do you really want to train people?
Disappointment. Listening to people talking about getting into teaching/training because it is easy and the holidays are good. Listening to people who are teachers and trainers moaning about the workload and the stupid participants they have to put up with. You either like the job or not. If you don’t like it get out of…
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Is training really a waste of time?
The title above is triggered by this article. There really isn’t anything new in this article but it is a good reminder to those new trainers out there and the other trainers who lie to themselves that often training is not as successful as we would like to think it is. This is not something…
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The new year and new ideas – skillshare
The skillshare site has been flagged as a must watch startup online company. Interestingly it isn’t about elearning but a site which links learners with learning programs that they are interested in and which are near to them. Check it out. It isn’t opened in Australia yet but……. Would you use it?
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Train people you idiots!!
Here is another one of those articles that really irritates you. Organisations trying to save some money by cutting training and then finding out that this has had a negative effect on the organisation in the future. Wow, what a surprise. Your organisation is only an organisation and only producing a product or service because…
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Periodically Pointless Education
I was listening to a group of boys on the train yesterday agonising over a test on the periodic table. They were quizzing each other and one boy in particular was getting more wrong then right. I wanted to lean over any say, don’t worry about it you’ll most likely never use the table again.…
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This is Now but is this the Future
Please read this article first. I would like to see this even though I have seen similar set-ups in my travels but not on this grand scale. Would you like to work there? I know I would. What does this mean for the future of Universities and colleges etc. Apple released yesterday that they have…
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Starting your own training business
I am constantly asked how do you start and run your own training business or consultancy and to be honest I am not 100% sure even though that is exactly what I do. I have been lucky in how it has evolved over time and I have also been involved in management before I starting…