Friday Fave: Digital Reality – Real learning in a virtual world

This week’s Friday Fave looks into the digital reality world of learning – augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), 360 video, and immersive technologies.

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Mentoring Revisited

7 tips for effective mentoring relationships Mentoring, as a professional development strategy, is experiencing a resurgence. In a recent article, published in AITD’s Training & Development magazine – linked below – I discussed some of the traditional models of mentoring, then explored the changing approaches to current practices. I believe it is time to revisit…

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The New Normal: the future of workplace learning

Emerging trends in 2015. In 2000 I started researching how social technologies were impacting both the way we approach learning and how we were using these technologies to learn. Since then, a lot has changed and not much has changed at all! A quick glance through the technology options provides a perspective of how enormous advances…

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User-generated content for learning design

Presentation from iDesignX2014 19March2014 in Sydney, Australia In the current connected workplace, enterprise social networks are creating a new information landscape where the quantities of content and resources can be overwhelming. In this situation, not only the nature of learning is changing, but also the nature of how work gets done. So, how does a learning…

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Social media is not a fad – it’s the future of learning!

Social media is more than just a fad, it is shaping the way organisations communicate and engage with their employees, their customers, and their business partners. As a consequence, the nature of business is changing. There is an irrepressible shift to social technologies that connect people, break down silos of information, and reach beyond the boundaries…

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