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Category Archives: Barriers to Learning
Do your stories face inwards or out? Thinking about our messages in learning design
There’s a problem with organisational learning: sometimes it faces inwards when it should face out. ‘Facing in‘ is when we tell stories that have meaning just to us. ‘Facing out‘ is when we tell stories that have meaning to others. … Continue reading →
Posted in Accessibility, Barriers to Learning, Clarity, Communication, Context, Effectiveness, Engagement, Everyday Reality, Learning, Learning Design, Meaning, Stories, Storytelling, Writing
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Tagged Communication, Effective, everyday reality, Meaning, Stories, Story
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Early to bed, early to rise… understanding everyday reality in learning design
In an effort to counter the effects of jet lag when i fly to the conference next week, i’ve been getting up ever earlier in the morning. Singapore is nine hours ahead of me here in England, a painful transition … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, Coffee, Community, Context, Effectiveness, Empathy, Engagement, Everyday Reality, Learning, Learning Design
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Tagged Context, Morning, Singapore, Time
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Strength in numbers: the power of a learning community
This focus of this week has been learning culture: how it’s created, who owns and influences it and what the balance is of informal and formal learning within it. The ‘Amsterdam Diary’ series of four articles let me explore this … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, Blog, Blogging, Community, Community of Practice, Culture, Forbidden, Formal Spaces, Forum, Ideas, Learning Culture, Popup Learning
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Tagged Blogging, Collaboration, Community, formal syllabus, Popup Learning
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Amsterdam Diary – Day 4: Forbidden learning – what they never wanted you to know
All week i’ve been exploring learning culture from Amsterdam. We started by looking into how the culture is created and went on to run a global popup learning session asking questions about the role of leadership and the individual, as … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, Challenge, Control, Disturbance, Forbidden, Graffiti
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Tagged Banned, city communities, empty buildings, Forbidden, Graffiti, Hidden, Secret, subversives, Visual Language
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Exploring Learning Styles: does an understanding of them make us better able to design learning?
The notion of learning styles is interesting: that we can identify different ways that people learn and, through this understanding, design materials and experiences that best suit each of these styles. It’s appealing: an engineering approach that tells us we … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, Concepts, E-Learning, Education, Instructional Design, Learning, Learning Design, Learning Styles
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Tagged Debate, Effectiveness, learning forum, Learning Style, research
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Martha Payne: The freedom to speak – exploring the challenges as social media invade formal spaces
Martha Payne is nine years old. She’s an active blogger who has gained a great deal of publicity and fame by posting everyday about her school dinners. For those of you who hail from overseas, i should mention that school … Continue reading →
Posted in Authority, Barriers to Learning, Blog, Challenge, Control, Education, Family, Freedom, Informal Spaces, Journalism, Learning
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Tagged Blog, Martha Payne, School, School Meals
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Unimaginably large numbers: why we have to keep learning relevant to what we know.
Do you know how many people died in the Second World War? I was reading a book about Yuri Gagarin last night, when i read something that stopped me in my tracks. I literally had to stop reading and think … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, Complexity, Education, Effectiveness, Information
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Tagged Abstract, Large Numbers, Second World War, Unimaginably Large Numbers, WWII
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The thing and the fear of the thing: why electricity may not be all that bad after all.
Herman was built in 1967, making him reassuringly older than me. He starts with a bang and a cloud of smoke, has a top speed of 40-45mph, depending how steeply you’re going downhill, and brakes that are, at best, optimistic. … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, Complexity, Fear
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Tagged british engineering, Car Mechanics, Electricity, Engineering, Fear, Land Rover, Learning, Myth
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Designing for mobile learning. Considerations and constraints.
Tomorrow i’m facilitating a seminar on ‘Designing for mobile learning’, so i thought that today was a good opportunity to think about it before opening my mouth. Consider this my rehearsal. When we think about mobile learning, we can consider … Continue reading →
Posted in Apps, Barriers to Learning, Design, Instructional Design, Learning Design, Learning Methodology, Learning Technology, Mobile Learning
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Tagged Design, Environment, Learner, Mobile Learning, Subject, Technology
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When is a Lavatory a Toilet? Getting bogged down in jargon…
Sometimes i have to reset my brain to the particular flavour of acronym in use by a specific client. One man’s PBA is another man’s FW. What, for someone, is CBT is, for someone else, e-learning. To one person, Mobile Learning is flavour of … Continue reading →
Posted in Barriers to Learning, E-Learning, Engagement
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Tagged Acronyms, e-learning, Jargon, Simple
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