Category: Guest authors
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Facebook as a learning tool!
Guest Post I have just spent 5 weeks with a sporting team on a training camp and note that they spent considerable time on the internet scouring and posting on social media. The whole time I was thinking if only I could sneak some learning and development into the time they spent surfing facebook and…
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E-Learning – What happens when the going gets tough? Who stops going?
Guest Post I see that e-learning is the way to go, it makes sense. It will enable me to service so many more clients (athletes), at times that may be more convenient for them , whether it be while they at home in a regional town or overseas on an international training tour or competition.…
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When e-learning goes wrong!
Guest Blogger: Anonymous It never fails to amaze me how many times I’ve been asked to design, develop and deliver an e-learning course within a week. Unrealistic? Yes it is. But why do managers do this? Does it come from ignorance about how long it really takes to create an e-learning course, from lack of…
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To train or not to train? That is the question!
Guest Blogger: Anonymous Many times as an L&D practitioner I have been asked to develop and conduct training for staff on matters that to me are clearly not as a result of any training gaps. Some managers see training as the ‘white knight’ to fixing problems that arise suddenly but at the same time are…
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Elearning – Creative, Engaging hmmm Really?
Guest Blogger: Charlene C Looking for ideas on elearning and the one expectation I have is for it to be creative & engaging – after all to me thats the standard required for clientele is it not? Then why are all the clips on online learning, elearning so boring. I soon turned my focus away…
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Education in the 21st Century
Guest author Cathy Harper A New Challenge! We are in a new century so how has education changed? Or has it? Most people today adhere to a paradigm of education that is strictly 19th century. That is how I was taught and thus they teach the way they were taught. Technically we are in the 21st…
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JMA Analytic Model of VET capability Development
Guest author: Jenny Martin (For those readers who are not in Australia we have a complex and often confusing vocational training sector. If you want to know more please check out www.training.com.au) I recently attended a round table discussion at which Dr John Mitchell and John Ward presented the findings of a survey they conducted…
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Could advertising move into the training environment?
This is a guest post by Greg Moriarty. Advertising is everywhere, advertising gets everywhere. But I think as trainers we are quite lucky. The training room seems to have escaped the spread of marketing. Advertisers will look for any surface and cover it with an advert. One ingenious concept involves placing long posters in underground…
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The impact of the new TAE Training package on the CIV in TAA
This is a guest post by Jenny Martin on the new changes to the Australian training qualifications. The existingTAA04 training package (TP) has been reviewed and its replacement TAE10 (Training and Education) is due for endorsement soon. RTO’s may continue to enroll students in the old qualification for up to a year after endorsement. The current…
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How professional should we look?
Today’s post is another by guest blogger, Christine Dix. My first class at my current workplace was an evening class conducted at a different venue (the local primary school computer lab). I was nervous – first class, new workplace, unseen venue! I had dressed carefully in my business suit as we were encouraged to…