Modern Workplace Learning Magazine

The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to me, @C4LPT with your top 10 tools.

Next public workshop runs 2 March – 10 April 2020 This 6-week will look at how to design, deliver and manage a number of modern training content, events and experiences for the workplace, and consider how and when they might best be employed. Post navigation ← 30 articles from 2019 to take us into 2020 L&D in Lockdown: What’s taking place? → This website uses cookies to improve your experience.

This is the text of a 15 minute talk I gave to the Institute of Learning & Management‘s Virtual Conference, Online Learning: Challenges and Solutions on Friday 22 May. Well, the Coronavirus has done what few CEOs have been able to do – it has pretty much overnight changed the workplace and at the same time made us realise the value of online learning. I’ve been watching how many organisations have been putting their training online. Many have opted for Zoom – the video meeting platform.

The Top Tools for Learning 2019 survey will close on Friday 13 September. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so here. You will need to list your top 10 tools and say how you use them – (a) for personal or professional learning, (b) at work or (c) in a school, college or university setting. You can also share your thoughts on why you like the tools you have nominated too, if you want to. I will reveal the results of the survey on Wednesday 25 September.

I am very pleased to once again have been asked to organise and chair a 3-day English-speaking track (on the theme of Modern Workplace Learning) at the LearnTEC conference taking place in Karlsruhe, Germany in January 2020. LearnTEC is Europe’s No. 1 trade show and congress focusing on digital learning with more than 10,000 participants. The programme with details of all the tracks in the 28th Congress (28-30 January 2020) has now been published and can be viewed HERE.

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When people talk about “continuous learning” or “lifelong learning” they often mean by that term “continuous education” or “continuous training”, i.e. regularly attending courses or programmes, but in this article I want to show how continuous learning is, in fact, a process of incremental learning, i.e constantly adding to one’s knowledge and expertise over time. I also want to show how this is a key aspect of learning that can be enabled and supported in the workplace.

During 2019 I shared hundreds of links to useful articles, posts and resources but here are 30 (listed in chronological order) that I believe highlight 3 key themes for 2020.

There’s been a lot written about schools having to adapt almost overnight to a digital world when lockdown was thrust upon them. And from conversations with family and friends, schools seem to have taken very different approaches to this. For some it has involved setting up online classrooms on established education technology platforms that involve pupils downloading lessons and uploading work as well as video sessions with the class teacher and other pupils using Zoom.

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Recipients champion workplace and social learning practices inside their organization and/or on the wider stage. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.