tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740642724626145602012-01-23T22:43:46.924ZLars Hyland explores how technology and research enhances communication, learning and performance in the workplace. <br> <br> This blog collects my ideas, articles and reflections on e-learning, social media, mobile and anything else that helps build better learning experiences. <br> <br> All views expressed are my own.Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.comBlogger931100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-69766583383172115852012-01-23T22:43:00.001Z2012-01-23T22:43:46.939Z

iBook Author 3D version? Well I awake from a blogging slumber in time for what should be one of the most vibrant Learning Technologies Conference and Exhibitions. The world appears also to have finally awoken fully to the benefits technology can bring to learning and training. Particularly when you take a more fundamental step in redesigning the whole experience so that the technology is at

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Here's my article, just published on Trainingzone as the headline story, exploring how augmented reality and mobile technology promise to radically improve learning effectiveness. Would value your comments and feedback. -------------- The pace of technological innovation continues to surprise. This week reports suggest that, in theory at least, it will be possible to create new materials that

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Many years back, I coined a phrase that neatly summarised my view on how to change current training design and delivery practice so that it can dramatically improve effective learning and performance. My phrase? "Less learning more often" (click to read the full article) Is it happening? Well, it's beginning to it seems. We are clearly recognising that the concentrated, content-heavy

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Here's my article just published on Trainingzone, recorded here for your comment. ----- Lars Hyland explores how social tools can be harnessed to deliver a more engaging and effective learning experience. The experiential divide between using online technology externally and internally within organisations Using the crowd to accelerate learning and innovation Three ways to

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Dutch biologist Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis from Radboud University Nijmegen predicts that the next the next step in evolution will lead to a life form in which the transfer of the blueprint by means of genes is replaced with the transfer of knowledge and collective experience by so-called ‘memes’. In Jagers’ view: Memes are codes that determine the structure of the brain. In turn, the

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Michael Feldstein has written a thought-provoking post on Xplana.com which "provides direct-to-student productivity tools that enhance the student learning experience". Xplana is an attempt to support individuals in their learning, which is a broad trend that will be highly disruptive to current educational models, certainly in Higher Education. The economic climate and availability of access

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So says Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn in Forbes magazine. As authors of Disrupting Class, a useful manifesto on how innovation will change "the way the world learns". There is a growing head of steam around changes to education systems around the world, largely driven by budget cuts. My hope is that the opportunity is grabbed to more deeply re-think how we use learning technology to

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Apparently, the log might be the most effective learning technology ever invented. Read on to find out why... There is a discussion in the group Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group on Linkedin which appears to have taken on a life of its own. With nearly 600 posts, it represents an interesting cross section of what can be quite polarised views on the success (or otherwise) of

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The people who brought us An Inconvenient Truth – raising awareness of the environmental challenges ahead of – have turned their attention to the US education system. The documentary ‘Waiting for “Superman”’ directed by Davis Guggenheim intends to pack some powerful punches about the state of the public school system while providing a call to action. Below is a neat little animation that trails

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A new study published today suggests that drinking five cups of coffee a day could reverse memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease. But actually it doesn’t. The article on the BBC website goes on to report: "This research in mice suggests that coffee may actually reverse some element of memory impairment. "However much more research is needed to determine whether drinking coffee has the

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I had the privilege of speaking at the INGO E-learning Conference at Oxfam House, Oxford today. Fellow speakers included Clive Shepherd, Jane Hart and Rob Hubbard. There is a growing interest amongst charities and other non governmental organisations in more effective and efficient approaches to learning and development. When you have staff, volunteers and other representatives spread across the

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As the King put it: "A little less conversation, a little more action please" That pretty much summed up the reactions to many of the sessions during what was a vibrant and buzzy event this Tuesday in London. While there was much enthusiasm demonstrated with regards to the future potential of simulations, the shifts in informal/formal learning provision and a welcome emphasis on long term

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Creating an engaging, effective e-learning experience can be a daunting task. There are many considerations, the LEAST of which is the technical delivery which most folk normally latch on to. The tools are an enabler, for sure, but the ability to communicate – in words, in pictures, with meaningful interaction, with clarity – is much more important. However, this ability appears to be in scarce

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Here’s one of my articles published last month (May 2010) in Training Journal. You can also get a PDF to download if you prefer to read it in all its published glory on your shiny new iPad. Comments very welcome. --------------------------------------------------- First impressions Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? "On my first day I arrived and was immediately drowning in rules and

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It's been a while - 6 months in fact - since I last posted on this blog. This is largely due to lots of activity in the day job and a preference for Twitter as a platform for comment and sharing of useful links etc... (you can follow me on here). I've also published a number of articles in printed journals/magazines and been remiss in posting up here due to the now confusing delay between writing

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What a difference one letter change makes to that old term “knowhow”. KnowHow meant retaining knowledge in your head so you could apply it at some undefined point in time in the future. While clearly there are basic skills and knowledge that we need to retain internally it is often a fallacy to think that short term, event driven training will be retained long enough, and in a good enough state,

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Just published on the popular Trainingzone site. Comments welcome. -------------- In a real-time business environment, how do you ensure staff are kept fully up to speed on new products and services, while also keeping customers happy? Lars Hyland outlines ways in which technology can improve knowledge, learning and communication in the pressurised environment of the contact centre. It's hard to

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This post is a bit of self congratulatory trumpet blowing, but the past two weeks can’t go by without comment. Last night Brightwave won the E-learning Production Company of the Year Award at this year’s E-learning Age Awards. That’s a fantastic achievement and well deserved – the team are highly professional, talented and great fun to work with. Our clients seem to agree too with comments like:

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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the Handheld Learning conference is a far more vibrant community of Twitter users than the recent WOLCE attendees. You can get a great sense of the presentations, even get to review them and discover new things in ways which seem almost better than actually attending yourself. One great find was this recent video put together to support the MOCOM 2020

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The British Computer Society (BCS) and IT Training Magazine have published my article on how onboarding new staff can be transformed in terms of overall time to full productivity and dramatically reduced training costs. As the economy picks up the quality and efficiency of induction will matter more than ever. What do you think? ------------------------ How we work and who we work for is

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With the current media and political debate about the future funding of education (and the rest of the entire public sector for that matter), I was struck with the thought that perhaps the wrong question is being asked.Is funding or cutting the same model of higher education the real issue. Or would a more radical shake up of higher education be more affordable and indeed more effective at

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I was asked by Trainingzone to provide some tips for bringing the learning benefits to bear of social tools within an organisational context. All comments/feedback welcome.---------------------------Resisting the rush to social media feels a bit like trying to push water back up a waterfall doesn't it? A fairly futile exercise. Why is it so popular? Well, homo sapiens are a particularly social,

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I’ve previously posted on how we are beginning to move from training as a separate activity from doing, to a model of primarily supporting practice and performance on the job. Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) I rather snappily called it. One dramatic example of how this is developing is in the nascent area of Augmented Reality. This clip amply illustrates where this is heading. While

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There is growing excitement with a new class of mobile device hitting the streets over the next few months – the electronic tablet. Most of the buzz is about Apple coming out with what’s dubbed the “iTablet” that essentially would be a larger screened iPhone or iPod Touch. Some enterprising people have mocked up images of what it could look like:   But several other vendors are beating Apple

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I ran a webinar for the Learning and Skills Group earlier this month on re-inventing the e-learning experience. I mentioned this in a previous post, so let me know what you think of the ideas and examples presented.Lars Hyland Webinar 090709 Re-inventing the E-learning ExperienceView more presentations from Lars Hyland.How can you show that e-learning is clearly adding value to your business?

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Clive Shepherd tweeted a link to this research report: The Evidence on Online EducationThe study found that students who took all or part of their instruction online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through face-to-face instruction. Further, those who took "blended" courses -- those that combine elements of online learning and face-to-face instruction -- appeared to

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Jacqui Smith. former Home Secretary in the UK Government wished she had been better trained for the role. According to the BBC, in an interview with Total Politics magazine:"I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of those skills," she adds.There has been criticism of the way in which ministers are parachuted into departments, often without any

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Charles Jennings great article on "How not to train" has been featured on trainingzone but I recommend you go back to his blog for a fuller version. His point is clear. Systems training delivers little value (negative value according to Jay Cross' comment) when following the traditional model of delivery. Train weeks before go live, provide little intervening support then let them loose once the

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This article originally appeared in Training Journal in June 2009 (PDF). In it I coin the term Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) as a better description of how workplace place learning will develop in the future. Comments welcome. ---------------------------------------------- Lars Hyland investigates how Continuous Professional Development is being transformed by digital connectivity and

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There is a lot of discussion at the moment about how organisations adapt to a world which is now profoundly affected by communications technology. The early hype of the internet is starting to make a fundamental impact to our lives both at work and at play. We shop differently, we work differently, we take part in world events like never before. It's a "real time" experience in the virtual

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Just realised that I have been neglecting this blog over recent weeks and could well have missed offering a post in the month of May. Well that just wouldn't do, would it? It's been interesting balancing the competing (and sometimes mutually supporting) demands of writing articles, tweets, linkedin messages, as well as the day job of consulting with customers and delivering on their requirements.

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I recently took part in a video debate for the British Computer Society (BCS) which discusses the future of e-learning. Good opportunity to discuss some key issues with Clive Shepherd, Chair of the e-Learning Network; Samantha Kinstrey, MD of 2e2 Training; Laura Overton, MD of Towards Maturity; and Jooli Atkins of Matrix FortyTwo and Chair of the BCS Information and Technology Training Specialist

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Below is an opinion piece I wrote for Training Journal back last month which is published today. Would welcome your own comments on the Digital Britain report and what it means for us in the learning field.=============================Should the UK be aiming higher?The Digital Britain interim report published in January 2009 attempts to lay out an agenda for driving forward the UK's Digital

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Here’s a thought piece covering the use and value of e-learning in the travel sector – this one made the cover story of e.learning age magazine. Again, would welcome your comments. ================================ Harnessing technology to build trust and improve customer care remains a priority for the travel sector. There is no doubt that the travel industry is in a state a flux. As the

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Here's an article I've written for publication covering the benefits learning technology offers in bringing new employees up to speed. Your comments are welcome, especially on the ideas around making use of the pre-joining period. ==== E-induction: Save time, reduce costs and improve quality with e-learning While the headlines are dominated by job losses and uncertainty, it's easy to forget

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Stress can be both negative and positive in affecting our performance. Interestingly, many training experiences lack any element of stress and as such can be unstimulating and unrepresentative of the real environment.This study however focuses on the negative impact stress has on forming context dependent memories.We exposed healthy adults to stress or a control procedure before they learned an

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Donald Taylor's opinion piece on trainingzone prompted me to reflect that we are really just at the end of the beginning for e-learning - in its broadest sense - to transform the way we educate and train in the future. Here is my comment in full:E-learning is mission criticalIt has always been the case that new technology goes through similar cycles of early low adoption before crossing a chasm

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Just this past weekend I took my family up to London and the O2 Centre (the rebranded Millenium Dome) to see an interactive installation called the British Music Experience. It was great to see a modern attempt to create an environment designed to engage an audience of all ages. It had some real lessons in how to provide an effective learning experience in the 21st Century. First of all,

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A nice little Doodle by Lee. This behaviour is undoubtedly not limited to toddlers - just watch an episode of The Apprentice or spend some time in any large organisation. Interestingly, the act of doodling (like the example above, but of course they come in all shapes and sizes and colours), often perceived as a sign of boredom and disengagement, is actually a highly effective means of enhancing

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I've been sitting on a number of research/news snippets which are all interesting but demonstrate how fluid the respective fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology and educational study are. Sometimes it's hard to draw immediately practical inferences. Things are moving so fast that you can move from positions of contradiction, congruence and back to contradiction in a matter of days. This

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ReadWriteWeb and New Scientist picked up on a preliminary piece of research that suggests better retention and learning is achieved through using an audio podcast of a lecture than actually attending it.To find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone - mimicking a missed class - McKinney's team presented 64 students with a single lecture on visual perception, from an

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I have a lot of time for Sir Ken Robinson. Here he is essentially promoting his new book The Element which champions the notion that education should first and foremost be about self discovery and self development, actively supporting us as individuals to discover our talents and passionate interests. He does so with wit and with a quiet persuasion that really needs a wider audience if the

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Here's an article published in Learning Technologies magazine this week. I wrote it some time back (old world printing deadlines) failing to fully forward plan for some events, like Obama moving from Elect to Active president status last week. But I'd welcome your comments on what you think mission critical e-learning means to your organisation or the organisations you work with.The bits in

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Back in March last year I posted on how we'd soon be able to pop a pill to get smarter. Well it seems that the current semi-illicit practice will go mainstream if AstraZeneca and Epix Pharmaceuticals get there way.As reported in the Telegraph, medicine designed originally to help treat Alzheimer's disease could be adapted and licensed for sale in a weaker form within the next few years:Steven

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It's been a turbulent ride in 2008, hasn't it? But I suspect that we've seen nothing yet as our world economies struggle to transition into an era that can no longer ignore big changes in climate, fossil fuel availability and global populations demanding more active economic involvement. As learning and development professionals, we all know how procrastination and inertia puts the brakes  on

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Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers is out this month and I was struck by this extract from the Guardian/Observer:Take a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Read them out loud. Now look away and spend 20 seconds memorising that sequence before saying them out loud again. If you speak English, you have about a 50 per cent chance of remembering that sequence perfectly. If

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-84272781227071723542008-11-03T22:00:00.004Z2008-11-17T11:11:58.756Z

Here's an article I wrote a few weeks back for Learning Technologies magazine which has just been published. It's a fairly long post but if you make it to the end I would welcome your comments.==============When unpredictable change becomes the only constant, learning on your own terms is an essential survival skill in these turbulent times, says Lars Hyland.The unthinkable is happening. In just

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-33352855075018729552008-10-22T22:31:00.002+01:002008-11-03T15:42:07.864Z

Wired Magazine have run an interesting feature reminding us that with a functioning networked society the old assumptions of physically working alongside each other are rightly being challenged. But its interesting how slowly the notion of teleworking/telecommuting has moved into the mainstream.Though a third of the more than 150 million working Americans telecommute at least occasionally, most

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-73724931249922593192008-10-21T21:00:00.000+01:002008-10-21T21:00:03.289+01:00

Think Gum aims to:...take advantage of proven brain-boosting herbs and herbal extracts, potent antioxidants, the principles of aromatherapy, the stimulant qualities of naturally occurring caffeine, breakthroughs in memory research, and the physical properties of chewing gum itself. In short, Think Gum enhances mental performance. Not sure of the claims but besides the impact of brain chemistry on

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Clive Shepherd has posted on the continuing failure of many organisations to harness the benefits of e-learning:...a large government department, had initiated a major e-learning programme, but the response had been disappointing. "I bet I can guess why," I said. "Really?" she said, "Do tell me." This was my guess: the e-learning was entirely self-study;the e-learning was unsupported;the content

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-35314625906322509592008-10-19T18:00:00.000+01:002008-10-19T18:00:00.310+01:00

It seems that to attract attention these days you have to summarise your idea and intent into a single syllable. Ever since Gladwell's Blink, it seems that every book I pick up follows the same pattern:Sway - the Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behaviour - Brafman & BrafmanNudge - Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Thaler & SunsteinYes! - 50 Secrets from the Science of

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-59038748717279288572008-10-12T10:30:00.002+01:002008-10-12T10:30:01.172+01:00

We're getting excitingly close to observing how our memory works at a fundamental level. This study picked up by PsyBlog reports on a study that demonstrates how memory works through the reactivation of specific individual neurons in the hippocampus.Effectively, things that happen to us activate networks of neurons in the brain, and when we recall past events at least some of these same neurons

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-2312201896192564232008-10-10T12:00:00.001+01:002008-10-10T12:00:01.144+01:00

At last - I return. To many of you I may have appeared to have taken a previous post on sleep and memory a little too literally. While I now consider myself fully consolidated, what with holidays and a surge in demand for my e-learning services to contend with, it's proven difficult to post at the frequency I intended. So I figure I'm in need of some performance support...On that note, I picked

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Following my last post, I received a comment from njtom as follows:"Brain scans of humans and animals have indicated that bursts of information pass between the neocortex and the hippocampus during the first hours of sleep, known as slow wave sleep. It is during slow wave sleep that the brain remembers declarative or episodic memory – precise facts a person can access consciously."If this is

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-4542349663252179862008-08-03T22:45:00.003+01:002008-08-03T22:45:00.305+01:00

I've previously posted on the effect of sleep on our learning and memory effectiveness in Snooze and Learn Faster and Six minute nap may boost memory.Here's yet another study supporting the need for sleep to consolidate a new experience.To sleep, perchance to remember(Nice title, not mine but a similar Shakespearian steal as Learning As You Like It)Neuroscientists at Geneva University have

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-51804530971557546362008-08-02T22:26:00.001+01:002008-08-02T22:26:00.298+01:00

In the last post, HDL cholesterol levels appear to have a positive effect on memory recall (or at least arrest its decline). On a similar dietary theme:Scientists Find Blueberries Reverse Age Related Memory DeficitsResearchers (from the Schools of Food Biosciences and Psychology in Reading and the Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter)

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-44678142412778076402008-08-01T21:57:00.003+01:002008-08-01T21:57:00.617+01:00

Over the past month I've managed to collect an interesting range of research snippets relating to memory and cognition. There's definitely a sense of acceleration of activity in this area, which unfortunately also brings with it its own hype and hysterical headlines.Over the next few posts I'll summarise the ones that most caught my eye:Cholesterol and MemoryPeople with high levels of cholesterol

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-30288808464500800732008-07-31T21:40:00.002+01:002008-07-31T21:56:50.720+01:00

This headline raised a smile:Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatusMay began his research of the Zodiacal Light (astronomy) in 1970 and completed his research and thesis in 2007, following a 30-year hiatus to play guitar in the well-known rock band Queen.Probably not the most effective use of the spacing effect to help reinforce learning but hey

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According to the BBC news site:Service personnel are to be given university education free of charge after they end their duty with the armed forces, it has been reported.The UK government will pay tuition fees to study for GCSEs, A-levels, university degrees or other qualifications. This is in part a response to a recent Ministry of Defence survey of 9,000 servicemen and women suggested that

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-58150762043368106892008-07-13T09:00:00.000+01:002008-07-13T09:06:10.871+01:00

Last week I was invited to speak to all the teaching staff at City College, a higher education institution in Brighton, UK, which in its own words:Each year over 2,000 full-time learners, 13,000 part-time learners as well as many international and European students choose City College as their education provider.The main thrust of my presentation was to stimulate a recognition that the connected

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-42176616919905593642008-07-08T17:05:00.004+01:002008-07-08T17:12:50.842+01:00

Well, just over six months in, and I'm still here, albeit with a backlog of ideas/thoughts that really should be up here by now. So it's nice to find that this blog was selected as a Blog of the Week by the Learning Technologies team.A useful little motivator to step things up a little.

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Harold Jarche referenced this delicious video clip of Father Guido Sarduci pointing out what we all know about traditional schooling and higher education - we forget most of it. So what is the net value to us and society in perpetuating a model that is plainly inefficient, especially when the connected world we live in now fundamentally changes the economics on which that model was based.As I've

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-4879098264980708672008-06-23T21:38:00.007+01:002008-06-23T21:56:33.145+01:00

Great submission for the upcoming Google Android mobile platform. The rather dense description is:"Enkin" introduces a new handheld navigation concept. It displays location-based content in a unique way that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services, and a novel user interface into an

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The Financial Times has run a feature - A Class Apart (warning: you may need to register) - which reports on the continuing rise in families opting for home schooling. These statistics caught my eye:17%: The estimated annual increase in children who are home-schooled in the UK (presently 50,000)10%: The proportion of home-educating families in the UK who use textbooks on a frequent basis42%: The

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-63881912409668897882008-06-05T22:53:00.008+01:002008-12-13T07:32:07.467Z

Well I'm back from vacation in sunny southern Spain. The majority of time was spent relaxing, gazing at the view above, a bit of swimming, reading and generally moving as little as possible. One day, my son Gus (aged nine) and I (a lot older) decided that the mountain needed climbing. So we did. Took us seven hours and required lots of moving...up and down rocky trails mainly. We were fortunate

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-66335925379776332232008-05-15T22:28:00.000+01:002008-12-13T07:32:07.705Z

It's SATs time in the UK for primary school kids and I'm sitting writing this post while Question Time is discussing the value of testing kids at the age of 11 in this way (my own daughter being one of them). The emphasis on testing in artificial environments that are abstracted from a real world context seems to create a lot of heated debate. The issue of stress and pressure placed on kids to

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We really do live in exciting times. What with global geopolitical and economic power shifts and increasingly evident environmental concerns it's easy to feel uneasy. Yet there are plenty of reasons to remain optimistic about our ability to learn new ways to manage and cope through what will inevitably be a long rollercoaster ride over the next few decades. The pace of innovation in many fields

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I've been thinking about a short commentary by Simon Caulkin in the The Observer last weekend on the power of the placebo effect in the business world.He picked out an interesting example which relates to the world of training and learning:Consider, for example, the experiment in an Israeli army boot camp recounted in Bob Sutton's quirky book Weird Ideas That Work. Incoming recruits were randomly

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-2981586666629735432008-04-15T19:41:00.001+01:002008-04-15T19:41:07.302+01:00

Thanks to Jane Hart for pointing me to Boolify - David Crusoe and his team are, in his own words addressing what I would term a 21st century basic skill:"One of the challenges of web searching is that while it's important for kids to know how to conduct good searches, e.g., for research, the common textual tools do a poor job of modeling, for kids, the impact that their boolean has on results. As

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Just watched Jeremy Paxman do his usual combative stuff interviewing the US founder behind Brain Gym - in the words of the Newsnight blog:Brain Gym is a programme used in hundreds of schools across Britain - backed by the government. It’s a series of daily physical exercises that are supposed to aid learning - by stimulating the vital organs. Many teachers - and many pupils - are convinced it

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-44326596351220378792008-03-25T21:13:00.004Z2008-03-25T21:35:38.447Z

Following my last post on learning being a health issue, I neglected the whole smart drugs phenomenon. Mark Oehlert has written a great post referencing a thought provoking article in The Escapist by Lara Crigger - a selected quote gives you a flavour:But what if, instead, we could simply pop a pill to become smarter? A medication that could make us more alert, sharpen our concentration - even

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I'm playing a bit of catch up after a particularly busy month - although the way things are looking that'll be the pattern for the foreseeable future. The European e-learning market appears to be thriving in stark contrast to the ongoing financial crisis and what looks like an inevitable recession in the US. As I raised in an early post - training budget shock - e-learning is now very much a

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-51958445655152287782008-03-08T12:04:00.002Z2008-03-08T07:10:05.078Z

This is an interesting short report up from the New Scientist:Replacing dry multiple-choice tests with quizzes akin to the hit TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire could help boost comprehension levels in children.Tzu-Hua Wang at the National Hsinchu University of Education in Taiwan has devised a web-based multiple choice testing system with some fun elements influenced by the TV quiz. The

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-26516591648065681402008-03-02T11:12:00.004Z2008-03-02T12:02:54.613Z

Neuroplasticity refers to our brains ability to change and reorganise itself through forming new neural connections. This is clearly at the heart of the learning process but also shows itself in the remarkable ability to move and redevelop brain function in the event of injury or damage.Indeed, as we specialise and become experts in a specific skill or knowledge area, then the brain area used

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Here in the UK, the sunday papers tend to be a much of a muchness, preferring quantity over quality. An unending volume of supplements and junk inserts hardly send out the right environmental message. However there is one virtuously slim insert that comes with The Observer (the sunday sister publication to The Guardian) which I have been consistently impressed with - and that is The New York

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The BBC reports on the New Scientist reporting on a German study finding (here's the source article) that:Just six minutes "shut-eye" for volunteers was followed by significantly better recall of words."Ultra-short" sleep could launch memory processing in the brain, suggested the researchers from the University of Dusseldorf.This follows on from my earlier post Snooze and Learn Faster.It's too

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-42189686340893592952008-02-17T19:00:00.003Z2008-02-17T19:04:38.732Z

I had an interesting comment from Mark on my article on Applying Social Networking in the Workplace. This statement got me thinking:I think social networks within an organisation will become tremendously useful - think of the opportunities for knowledge sharing through the creation of pools of expertise across the organisation consisting of people who would otherwise be locked into some isolated

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-51826190111137896762008-02-15T21:14:00.000Z2008-02-17T19:06:07.273Z

I have an enthusiastic interest in memory and how our brains learn. So I thought I'd try and learn some more from the experts using some of the openly available material from MIT. I came across something that looked interesting (well to me anyway):Neurobiology of Memory: How Do We Acquire, Consolidate and Recall MemorySpeaker: Susumu Tonegawa, Director, Picower Institute for Learning and

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-6625678573915812592008-02-12T21:32:00.000Z2008-12-13T07:32:08.734Z

Jotyou is a location based messaging service for your phone. It basically allows you to send messages to friends which are received when they enter a specified geographical area. Check out the video for a feel for the service - it's especially well integrated with Google maps and a whole range of mobile phones.Now the main focus of the service at present is on getting messages to people to come

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I spent last week in London at Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference. The general mood amongst the vendors and attendees I felt demonstrated a confidence in the future at odds with the wider economic gloom that the media and city types would have us believe. While the longer term impact of globalisation and an overstretched financial sector will clearly affect us all, I wonder if we

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-84811832143788239022008-01-29T00:04:00.000Z2008-12-13T07:32:08.998Z

A recent study has found that a ninety minute daytime nap helps speed up the process of long term memory consolidation. The group that slept in the afternoon showed a distinct improvement in their task performance by that evening, as opposed to the group that stayed awake, which did not exhibit any improvement. Following an entire night's sleep, both groups exhibited the same skill level.The

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-30309220734283353742008-01-27T18:19:00.001Z2008-01-27T18:32:40.092Z

This week will be the Learning Technologies 2008 show in London. I'll be there for both days (30/31 January), delivering a seminar on "Less Learning More Often" which covers some of the ground described in my earlier article on the theme.I've also written the Last Word for the Learning Technologies magazine which as a sneak preview I've reproduced below. I'd be interested in your responses so if

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After a short break skiing in the Swiss/French Alps (the break fortunately not involving any bones), I found myself thinking further about how much (most?) training activity across the planet fails to transfer into any lasting learning.When I learned to ski some 20 odd years ago, I started out on a dry slope which, back then, was more like skiing on a thick, plastic carpet with the consistency of

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Following my previous post it's amusing to see Science Daily report that a lack of imagination in older adults is linked to declining memory function.A new Harvard University study reveals that the ability of older adults to form imaginary scenarios is linked to their ability to recall detailed memories.According to the study, episodic memory, which represents our personal memories of past

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-52617647053721019202008-01-08T22:25:00.000Z2008-01-28T18:15:05.331Z

I've been an avid supporter of Nintendo for the past two years or so, for their design prowess and dramatic success in widening the appeal of gaming. Indeed they're redefining recreational digital fun to include - shock - the learning of new skills. Brain Training in particular has been a left field success. I bought the game when it first launched in the US back in 2006 and was intrigued by the

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As reported by Personnel Today in the UK:----Almost half of large companies in Western Europe plan to spend more on training and L&D in 2008, according to Human Resources consultancy Mercer. Its 2007 European Total Rewards Survey found 46% of 200 multinationals surveyed planned to up their training spend this year. Just 4% said they would spend less, while half said expenditure would remain

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-74235369790869617182008-01-06T22:03:00.000Z2008-01-06T22:13:14.834Z

I wrote this article back in November for Learning Technologies magazine. I'm placing it here as a matter of record and to note that social networking tools are clearly important to accelerating the (effective) learning process.---------------------------------We are social animals by nature, so any technology that allows us to connect more efficiently and effectively with others will flourish.

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-83327805255434712142008-01-03T12:52:00.000Z2008-01-03T13:02:15.773Z

As mentioned in the previous post, here is an article I wrote back in December 2006 but it's interesting to see how relevant it feels now on re-reading:--------------------------------------------------It’s been said before, but I think we’ve forgotten. We are programmed to forget. So we need reminding. Regularly.As learning and development professionals, designing and delivering training within

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-29152024617589530172008-01-03T11:29:00.000Z2008-01-03T12:35:48.455Z

Back in May 2006, I was fortunate to take part in a UK government mission to the USA to explore what lay "Beyond eLearning" (click the link for the final report). Travelling to both coasts (Boston and Silicon Valley) we met a great mix of academic (MIT Medialab, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning) and corporate organisations (Cisco, Fidelity Investments, Microsoft, IBM to name a few). We

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-37253231391146158192007-12-24T10:29:00.000Z2007-12-24T10:41:43.453Z

Tim Davies has produced some great examples of how small, targeted and (crucially) well designed resources can be highly effective in learning. Tim's One Page Guides on subjects such as wikis, blogs and sharing stories give novices the confidence to take some action of their own. As Brent Schenkler comments:"I'm certain it did not take ANY ISD knowledge to create these. But I'm certain MANY

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-50995629251559766182007-12-24T08:54:00.000Z2007-12-24T10:18:18.815Z

Here's another sign that the barriers to anytime, anywhere learning are falling indicated in this report in the Financial Times:"After years of false dawns for operators, the use of mobile phones for web surfing is on the verge of becoming widespread in Europe and the US, and iPhone research by O2 shows the device is acting as an important catalyst for such activity.""Matthew Key, who becomes

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-14479393949027653462007-12-21T17:36:00.000Z2007-12-24T10:17:03.831Z

It's that time of year again, a time to reflect on trends past and future. Sparked by Tom King's comparison of authoring tools I thought I'd take a fresh look at what Google Trends can tell us about e-learning and the wider training industry.There is a seemingly endless debate over how to spell the name of what we do. Are we "e-learning" or "elearning" or "eLearning"? Google Trends suggests that

Lars Hylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863947707581345099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674064272462614560.post-70455837417653611042007-12-20T18:51:00.000Z2007-12-20T18:54:06.827Z

I've been a contributor to others blogs and feel I might be ready to add a voice with some useful thoughts. So I'll be using the new year burst of enthusiasm to hopefully get me off the ground.Watch this space.

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