From the Coleface

The antidote to information overload for L&D specialists working in professional services firms. Comment and thought leadership on e-learning and training, relevant to anyone with an interest in L&D. Viv Cole is an independent consultant and instructional designer. He chairs the Professional Services e-learning Forum and is an e-learning awards judge.

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e-learning professionals “the cobbler’s children with no shoes”

At a recent Professional Services e-learning Forum, L&D teams were likened to “cobbler’s children with no shoes”. This allegory describes the phenomenon where professionals are […]

How well do you really know your learners?

It is a truth universally acknowledged in any presentation skills or business writing course that you need to get to know your audience – that […]

Are confidentiality concerns holding back the e-learning industry?

If e-learning has a creation myth, it is that the e-learning industry was born out of the dotcom crash at the turn of the century […]

Five ingredients for compliance e-learning excellence

Last week I had the privilege of judging the e-learning awards (obviously my lips are sealed as to who the winners are until the awards […]

Beautiful data, frightening conclusions

As someone who enjoys reducing information overload and making complex topics more meaningful and accessible, I’ve enjoyed browsing my way through two coffee table books […]

Talent management myths and facts

Last Friday I went to an excellent session of the Trainers and Developers Network  led by Catherine Shepherd. In many organisations talent management is siloed away […]

Ice bucket learning

If you’ve managed to avoid the ice bucket challenge, I can only commend you for managing to stay unplugged from social media on your holidays, […]

Is this compliance story too close to home?

Learners are used to compliance e-learning. Anyone in a big company is used to having several mandatory modules a year to complete so the game […]

Professional services e-learning forum achieves ten

7th July sees the 10th meeting of the Professional services e-learning forum, an informal networking and benchmarking group for L&D professionals working for the UK’s […]

Dialogomatic 2.0 launches on 1st April

Today I have been given exclusive reviewer access to the Beta version of Dialogomatic 2.0, the system that takes dialogue from a novel and at […]

How would you design learning with an unlimited budget?

Recently I was given what many instructional designers would consider the best brief ever: there’s unlimited budget, there’s no major urgency, just come up with something […]

Instructional design agony uncle

At this year’s Learning Technologies show I’ve been invited by the eLearning Network to do a slot on ‘Ask the Expert’ about instructional design. I’ll […]

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