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The Benefits of Hiring Guest Speakers vs Training Organisations For Employee Development
The Benefits of Hiring Guest Speakers vs Training Organisations For Employee Development You don’t always need a training organisation. Reduce costs and maintain quality with professional speakers for your employee training. Do you really need a registered training organisation to deliver your next employee development workshop? If your staff training absolutely requires an accredited outcome,…
How Has COVID-19 Impacted The Online Learning Industry?
Growth in online learning since the covid pandemic In late 2019, I wrote a report on the future of the adult learning industry. Since the COVID-19 pandemic made dramatic impacts to the education sector from February 2020 onwards – causing a huge surge in the popularity of online learning. And it’s only just…
How To Dramatically Increase Your Income – Right Now
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, we have as a collective society become accustomed to exchanging our time for money. The old hourly rate. I give you an hour of my time and you pay a fixed fee for it. Doesn’t sound so bad, does it? But charging by the hour is one of…
How To Deliver Your Online Course
How To Deliver Your Online Course Hi I love you. Huh? We don’t really know each other that well do we…… When I first started my teaching career, I did my teaching practice in an all-male prison in the UK. One of the subjects I taught in the prison was communication skills. In one lesson,…
[REPORT]: The Future of Education and Training – Beyond 2020
What Is The Future of Adult Education & Training From 2020? Author: Sarah Cordiner It is impossible for us to accurately predict the future of the post-compulsory education & training sector with any certainty. However, we can be certain that it will be different. The current landscape and trends over the past 5-10 years can…
Building Educational Efficacy in Post-Compulsory Education
Building Educational Efficacy in Post-Compulsory Education Author: Sarah Cordiner I have written a lot about educational efficacy in my books, but in this article, we will focus specifically on what it means in the post-compulsory education sector, and how you can nurture the educational efficacy of your students. When most educators or regulators assess the…
4 Ways To Overcome The Overwhelm of Online Course Creation
Whether it’s the first course you’ve created online, or your 1000 th , there’s nothing quite like creating something that has the potential for millions of people to access and benefit from. Despite the excitement of this prospect, it can also incite fear and overwhelm into a course creator and freeze them in their…
17 Ways To Cultivate a Learning Culture in Your Organisation
The learning culture of an organisation can be easily overthrown by even the most formidable learning and development departments Strategy cannot always ensure success. The learning culture of an organisation can be easily overthrown by even the most formidable learning and development departments. Creating sustainable organisational change means having a strong and effective culture around…
The Three Major Impacts That ‘Environment’ Can Have on Adult Learning Programs
We do not learn in isolation All adult learning, even self-directed learning, rarely occurs “in splendid isolation from the world in which the learner lives; it is intimately related to that world and affected by it”. (Jarvis, 1987). Adult learning does not occur in a vacuum. What we need or want to learn, the opportunities…
How To Enhance and Inform Your Training Plans Using Accredited Frameworks
“You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to training design. Most of the hard work has already been done for you” @CordinerSarah Use what’s already freely available to help you create quality learning experiences We’ve all heard of the old saying ‘don’t reinvent the wheel’, yet many educators and course designers still…