E-Learning Provocateur

While listening to the conversation between Purnima Valiathan and Guy Wallace on The LEAD Podcast, I was surprised to hear about the ongoing confusion that’s prevalent among instructional designers in relation to Design Thinking.

On the merry-go-round of L&D trends, hot topics come and go, only to return at some unspecified time in the future.

When I wrote 5 podcasts every e-learning professional should listen to in 2019, little did I know that our profession was on the cusp of an existential challenge via a compulsory experiment in remote working.

The lolly bag is a much-loved tradition in Australia.

Enterprise-wide upskilling programs are dominated by artificial intelligence.

People who know me know that I’m an advocate of skills-based learning strategy.

Welcome to this year’s instalment of Learning & Development conferences down under and across the ditch.

Sometime around April I blinked and it’s Christmas season again.

The volume of a mobile device in public is inversely proportional to the owner’s intelligence.

Today, generative AI has an abundance of original content to draw upon.

Last holiday I started a new blog.

The latest research paper to cause a stir among my peers is Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task by a bunch of boffins from Massachusetts, mostly MIT.

As a panellist at this year’s L&D Symposium in the Hunter Valley, I was asked: Should L&D practitioners be recast as performance consultants?

Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball may be an ode to the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education.

It gives me no joy to post this one, but as a practitioner I feel compelled to give it a voice… Several months ago I emailed the lead author of an academic paper, because I wanted to clarify an aspect of the study that was being reported.

The world of Learning & Development abounds with myths, advertorials, pseudo-religious dogma, echo chambers, contrarianism, counter contrarianism, and assumptions presented as fact.

Happy new year!

This year started not with a bang but a whimper.

It’s been a while since I drew a cartoon, so I thought I’d illustrate one of my most popular tweets.

One of my pet hates is closed captions not matching what’s being said.