Learn. Show. Repeat.

20 Jun

Response from an eLearning Creator

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design |

Dear Engaged Learner, Thank-you for your letter and my apologies for the delay in replying. I receive so many from engaged learners like you that it takes me a little while to respond but it always warms the cockles of my heart to read them. I’m so pleased to read that you were engaged during the course but I honestly can't take all the credit. You see, my colleagues and I usually receive a request for some training when there’s a real or imagined issue or when the legal or safety teams say it needs to be done. We don’t...
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07 Jun

Letter to an eLearning Creator

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design |

Dear eLearning Creator, I don’t normally do this but after what was one of the greatest hours of my life, I felt that I must. I’ve just completed a wonderful eLearning course that you created and I wanted to personally let you know how much I enjoyed it and that I was so engaged from start to finish. Day-to-day I’m quite busy in my role, however when I received the notification that I needed to complete my module I was happy to stop what I was doing, set my phone to voicemail and get started. Actually, a quiet hush fell...
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30 May

Learning and Development: You Have One Job

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

In many organisations, the learning and development (L&D) area are known as the people who deliver information – mostly via courses – either online or in a classroom. Many of which are essentially nothing more than one-off, content dumps. We say that we want to be business partners and express our desire for a seat at the table so we talk about “capacity building”, “a learning organisation” and “ecosystems” in an attempt to achieve this. We talk about blending, flipping, shrinking, socialising and gamifying learning events but often the execution has the wrong focus. We’ve become overly fixated on frameworks...
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06 May

Accessing Curated Content – Experimenting with Rise

Posted by Matt Guyan | Reflections |

A question I have about content curation in an organisational setting is: How do you make the content available for people within an organisation? I guess you could use the LMS but I don’t know user-friendly this would be especially if you need to sign-in to get to it. Maybe an intranet or other website? I’ve been playing around with Anders Pink and from what I’ve seen, it’s a useful tool for curation for individuals and teams. I’ll write a post about it in the future. Another idea was to use one of the new apps in Articulate 360 called...
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29 Apr

Valuing all Sources of Learning

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Reflections |

Each year I meet quite a few people who work in the eLearning field, usually they're developers or eLearning creation is part of their L&D role. Most are newbies to eLearning and we come together in a classroom setting to get them started on their eLearning development journey. At the beginning of each session I like to find out a little about each person – such as their background, their experience – and while most people are brand new to eLearning authoring usually there’s at least one or two who have been experimenting with the tool or they’ve watched some ‘how-to’...
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