Whilst it’s not an analogy that has ever crossed my mind, as an enthusiastic baker, Clive Sheppard’s last post on his blog ‘Clive on Learning’ had me intrigued. His summary of Laura Leyton-Jones ‘learning cupcakes’ Clive on Learning: Laura’s learning cupcakes describes rather well what we’ve been doing here at Willow for our clients for […]
Leslie Rule, at Harvard Graduate School of Education has written an interesting commentary on how mobile learning could be the key to raising the quality of education to previous poorly served communities. A key lesson to take away here is building for your audience (and better still, actually asking them what they want!)
So as I celebrate Christmas by downloading the wordpress app for my iPad whilst trying not to spill my mulled wine over it, I find myself contemplating what 2011 will bring. As head of learning design here at willow, the last 12 months have been particularly interesting. Many years of supporting learning strategies have given […]
A great blog for anyone involved in the development of rapid e-learning. Pick up some great hints and tips…http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/
The Willow Team are delighted with our new movie. We have added it to our website, our new YouTube channel and want to share it with you too. We believe e-learning should not be patronising and we certainly believe that challenging subjects, even complex subjects can be tackled online. What are your views on this? Take […]
As big advocates of eBooks and online quick guides as part of the learning mix, we were excited to see that The Open University has made 100 eBooks free on iTunes U and most interestingly, it is not simply a reformatting on existing texts. Having been designed for interactive and the best online learning experience, […]
“When I need to know something, I can find it out in five minutes,” says a 12-year-old in Gateshead. This article from the Guardian highlights the movement from formal to informal learning in children as young as 6. An experiment conducted in Hyderabad, India demonstrated that when left to their own devices, they were able […]
Having visited this year’s Broadcast & Equality Training Regulator (BETR) Learning and Development in Broadcasting conference, the folks at AV Interactive are a tad downhearted. That’s because the conference focused on the inexorable rise of social and informal learning, placing the role of traditional AV equipment further down the pecking order. However, the article is a […]
“Imagine for a moment that you have thumbed a ride in one of London’s iconic black cabs… “Where to, guv?” he asks, in typical cockney-twang. You tell him. “No problem – let me just enter that into my sat-nav…” It sounds unnatural, almost deceitful, that any self-respecting London cabbie would ever utter those words. After […]
Peter Honey from People Management gives his views on that famous relationship and what we can learn from it “The Blair-Brown relationship has been described as dysfunctional and the extent of the strife between Tony Blair and his chancellor, described in Blair’s memoir, A Journey, leads most people to bemoan the damaging effect this must have had […]