I recently ran a webinar on how to grow your people into being self-guided learners. In this blog post I'm going to explore in more detail some of the blended learning approaches that I talked about during that session.

An interview with Andrew Downes from Watershed LRS about xAPI.

An interview with Michael Roberts from IPM Consulting. Michael explains how his company looks past the compliance model of learning to engage people and achieve results.

LMSs are only good for compliance trackingI keep on hearing L&D people say that an LMS is only good for tracking compliance. At the same time there are vendors selling non-LMS solutions who say that you need more than just an LMS.

Ben McEwing from Carben returns to the Learning While Working podcast and talks with Robin about the emerging role of VR as a storytelling and learning tool.

What we have learned so far from not storyboarding and instructional designers building resources directly in authoring software

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to talk about the practice of interconnecting the physical world – with its sensors and actuators – and the digital world.

When I was planning this guide I wrestled with adding a section on media because television was invented way back in 1928, and radio in 1895. Media is not new. Then again, television and radio were analogue technologies, not digital.

A discussion with Clint Smith and Graeme Kirkwood, instructional designers who work with Sprout Labs, and Bruce Ransley, a technical writer we work with. Clint, Graeme and Bruce share their experiences in writing learning programs and offer some valuable advice for designing the best learning experiences.

The Learning Cafe Unconference event is not like most conferences. It is focused on group discussions, not presentations and case studies. This is one of the reasons that the organiser Jeevan Joshi restricts numbers to the event: discussions don’t scale.