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Category: Future

  • New Years Resolutions for Educators

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    What are your New Years Resolutions? Do you have any at all? I checked a few online resources and it appears that the most common resolutions are: Drink Less Alcohol Eat Healthy Food Get a Better Education Get a Better Job Get Fit Lose Weight Manage Debt Manage Stress Quit Smoking Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle…

  • Elearning Predictions for 2012

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    Watch the slideshare below. Do you agree? Do you know of any others? Here is one that isn’t listed but has a rapidly growing user base and could be used by a creative trainer/educator as a learning tool. This will be big. At present it is invite only – Pinterest. Top 10 open source eLearning…

  • Predictions

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    Welcome back from the Christmas Break, hope you had a good one with family and/or friends. The prediction posts and video’s are coming in thick and fast as the New Year approaches. Here are two from slideshare. JWT10 trends for 2012 executive summary 11 12 05 View more presentations from Brian Crotty 2012: 12 Themes…

  • Learning in your Sleep

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    I remember watching a movie as a kid and really liking the idea that you could learn in your sleep. I vaguely remember it involved a monkey and I also thought that Kurt Russell was involved. The main thing though was that you could learn anything you wanted by strapping on some headphones and sleeping.…

  • What is your plan for next year?

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    We are zooming into the end of the year and most trainers and educators are finishing programs and assessments off. I have just had the first real day off (sort of) for about 6 months and I have had a small chance to think about next year. I have some ideas, nothing solid yet but…

  • Exercise to Learn

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    This is an interesting article on the benefits of exercise on the brain. Really that is a no-brainer in itself as I assume most people believe that exercise keeps the brain healthy but research has indicated that exercise increases mental functioning in particular memory and recall. Maybe as trainers and educators we should space our…

  • Learning faster – good thing?

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    Please read the article below. Basically what it covers is that the US Air force has cut training time in half by applying electrical current to the brain of the training participants while training. One question this invokes is who came up with this idea? Lets electrocute the participants and see what happens? Strangely enough…

  • Online learning popularity

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    Please read the article linked to below. I was one of the 3 million users who were attracted to this program. Time is my problem at the moment and as much as I would like to do some professional development, work comes first. This is what happens when you get elearning right. Great teachers, excellent…

  • Can you keep up with your audience?

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    Watch the video below. It raises quite a few interesting questions. That person will be in one of your training sessions in the future, or not. 1. Can you train and entertain this person? 2. Did you notice the modern version of palm cards? 3. Would you like to try to teach him at school?…

  • Nothing to do with training or maybe it has….

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    I find this video and the technology fascinating. Some people are playing with this technology and they are going to change our lives. What’s happening in education and training? What will change our lives there?