The Death of ILT

Will instructor-led training (ILT) be completely eliminated from organization training programs? It’s a question that pops up often, both from learners and training staff. I find this question annoying. Not because I think it’s without merit – it is an important discussion in a time of change. But I tend…

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L&D, the IT Customer

Last week, GoDaddy, a domain registrar and web host company, was down for several hours. Millions of domains and perhaps hundreds of thousands of web sites and email accounts were unavailable during the outage. As users discovered the unavailability of their services and a hacker claimed to be behind the…

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Opening a Channel

Today I hosted a session that many would define as social learning. It involved connecting a group of people through a conference with chat, whiteboard and desktop sharing facilities. This post is mostly about the role of chat in these interactions. Just a few minutes into the session, the expected…

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eLearning Conversion

I think I found a little gem in the HLM, or Hybrid Learning Model, as part of my postgrad elearning studies at the Open University. What is interesting is that when I first saw it, I didn’t think about learning design, its primary purpose most likely – I thought about elearning…

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Let Me Blend That for You

Most definitions of “blended learning” converge on a combination of face to face (F2F) learning activities and computer-mediated ones. Many learning institutions and corporations offer some type of blended learning, and it is almost impossible to imagine a very near future where some haven’t explored, if not fully implemented it. If some studies…

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