Category: Education & Training Management
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Sir Ken, Again
I have written a few times about Sir Ken Robinson. You can check these posts here, here and here. I notice now that I never posted his now famous TED speech. I can highly recommend it. Watch it here. The reason I am bringing this up now is that four years on Ken has made…
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Training and customer service
Can you be a good trainer and provide excellent customer service. I guess that really comes down to how you define excellent customer service. Typically excellent service can be defined as “Consistently doing something of value for customers in the way customers want it done”. If you like that definition great, as it is…
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What makes a great teacher?
No, I am not going to discuss this topic again. I have covered this topic in this blog a number of times as well as holding a competition recently to describe the A to Z characteristics of an excellent teacher. There was a very interesting TV show on recently which covered this topic with a…
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I know what education will look like in the future
Actually I don’t really know but I know that it will reflect everything else around us as we move forward into the future. Unfortunately education and training are highly reactive. They both respond with a fairly large time lag to a multitude of other factors that have already changed. Education and training are typically the…
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Online learning is better
Another interesting post on online learning. It appears from this research “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” Not by much though. Intriguing is the final comment by the researcher who says that despite these findings learning must occur in a community. I suppose that is an online…
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A new training term?
Here’s a new training term for you, edupreneur. Well at least it was for me. I picked this up from a post at the Huffington Post. You can read it here. There appears to be a real educational revolution happening in America as opposed to our educational reshuffle which has really amounted to very little.…
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More on the online debate
It doesn’t take very long to find an article on the online education debate. Part of what I hope my role is in this blog is to review a lot of information and pass onto you some of the better articles, saving you the time taken to scan thousands of useless and poorly written posts…
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The Full Training Needs Analysis Series
I thought it might be a good idea to put in one place the full TNA series of Training Tips 56 videos. I would like to think that this is a good resource for trainers and students. Please let other trainers and students know of this address and allow them the ability to access and…
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Training Needs Analysis. It is a SUSPECT process – Part 7
The last part of the TNA process (suspect) has been posted to all of the usual locations. The last stage concerns ‘The Results and Recommendations’. Typically the result of this stage is a report outlining the data found, the results and conclusions from that data, the isolated performance gaps and the recommended solutions. A good…
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New Horizon report released
If you haven’t read a Horizon Report then start now. You don’t have to read the whole thing. You can just read this nice little summary provided by the education.au. Click here to read this post. You can access the full report from this post as well or just click here. A quick skim over…