Life Long Learning

The CEO of Motorola once said ” Motorola no longer wants to hire engineers with a four year degree. Instead, we want employees to have a 40 year degree.“. What he was talking about is Life Long Learning. Many companies are now proponents of continuous learning for their employees and clients versus getting a degree and finding a job. Life long learners have a passion or interest in always learning more, something different or just [...]

Considering Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Over the past ten or fifteen years that eLearning has been around, many amazing learning management systems have come forward both commercial and not. One of the first that I used was WebCT, which was created right in my own back yard here in Vancouver, Canada by UBC. It was originally free for learning institutions and cost for commercial/profit organizations. It was created for the university and it ‘s students and faculty and quickly became [...]

Death of the all day software training session

Many years ago I attended or facilitated many training sessions, partularly computer software training that were one or more days long. We conducted things this way because it was felt important for people to get as much information as possible for the best time they had available and buck. Many instances of what I call the 3 o’clock freeze or brain overload happened when learners would have this glazed look on their faces and pretty [...]

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Merging education with  technology for the greater good. We are in an age where many things are moving at a fast pace, the news we receive, the sports we watch, all arriving to us at break neck speeds. This can be daunting to many people as much of this information creates change for us, even if it just the change in weather. Alongside these speeds is innovations in technology, such as the computer or the [...]