No-one knows everything but everyone knows something. Behind this truism lies the principle of empowerment through collaboration. Say you’re exploring a theory about a little known or widely misunderstood subject, or you are researching an unusual medical condition, or you are trying to learn more about a niche art movement in the 1880s. Whatever the [...]
In early January, the US-based eLearn magazine asked a number of ‘e-learning folk’ for their predictions for 2011 and then published them (see: http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=148-1) The would-be clairvoyants of e-learning included Elliott Masie, Charles Jennings, Roger Schank, Seb Schmoller and someone called Bob Little. Among the many predictions, the most frequent were: A rise of [...]
There is little chance of anyone in the corporate e-learning field ever being named in the New Year’s Honours List – at least not for their services to corporate e-learning - but, by way of small compensation, there is growing interest in the annual publication of the lists of corporate e-learning’s ‘top ten movers and [...]
Apparently the Duke of Wellington had an unusual approach to developing his battlefield strategies: he played with toy soldiers. In a large room, he’d build model landscapes over which he would set warring miniature armies against each other. But, unusually, he would act as the general of both armies - conflicting roles he immersed himself [...]
