Category: Education & Training Management
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Post Training Strategies
A lot of my old programs (I’m talking 10 years or so) used to have a post training component ie after the training was completed the participant had to report back to a supervisor or coach and they then worked on a post program plan. This was pretty standard for a lot of the more…
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Growing Uneasy
How has your week been? Mine has been exceptional busy which for a self employed person is great but despite this I am becoming increasingly uneasy about education, training and my role in it. I am consistently asked to do things that are educationally unsound but economically useful. As technology provides enormous advantages and time…
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Investing in Learning and Development
Are organisations investing in learning and development. This survey indicates this but is this what you are observing? I am involved in a couple of big programs by big organisations but I am seeing a withdrawal from face to face training. What do you see? Read the survey results here.
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Competency, Currency and Trainers
I have been really busy lately and have been keen to write a post on trainer competency and currency. If you have any thoughts let me know and I will possibly add them to a future blog on this topic.
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ASQA – You’ve got it all wrong!
Many trainers, assessors and RTO managers will already know about some of the proposed changes that ASQA wants to introduce to improve the quality of assessment. As they state: “In November 2015 Skills Ministers agreed to explore reform options to support the following principles: Graduates have the required competencies for the job role and there…
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Bread and the Future of Learning
I have been watching a great documentary on Netflix called Cooking. It has nothing to do with training or education. On the weekend I was watching the third episode on Air which introduced bread making. There has been a common theme running through all of the episodes that essentially states that due to the decreased…
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Virtual Conference on Education
I let you all know, each year, when the Virtual World Conference on Best Practices in Education is on and it is on very soon. In fact it is on 9 March to the 12th of March. To access the program click here at there website. To access the conference you will need to join secondlife…
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The mismatch
Here is an interesting post from Jane Hart regarding the mismatch between how L&D and employees see workplace learning. Do you agree? I often experience this mismatch particularly when an employee attends a competency program and I have to cover certain content which isn’t really relevant to the employee, or they could just simply look…
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Elearning- 2015 and beyond
From my perspective not a great deal has changed on the education front this year. We of course have some weird things happening in NSW as education and training continues to take a beating while proclaiming that it is improving. On the Federal front we are finally seeing the end result of some ridiculous funding…
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Online learning – never
Back in the late 90’s I was a huge advocate of online learning and then over the last few years I have been at times very skeptical and then extremely passionate about its place in education and training. My skepticism has come from the extremely slow takeup by many professionals and also the constant failure of…