IN a recent brainstorming session with Cal Dean, we focused on defining the core business of Binary Blue. I explained that I essentially transform knowledge and information into appropriate digital formats (modalities). For example, in my work with AIRAH, I interview design engineers and ‘re-write’ what they say into a variety of digital [...]
WE NOW live in a totally wireless world. As the Horizon Report quite correctly predicted back in 2005:
Looking further down the road, as more people carry cell phones with an increasing array of features, ubiquitous wireless will become more valuable as a means for connecting people and providing instant access to information.
There are [...]
ACCORDING to a paper written by Prof Erica Smith, competency-based training (CBT) is open to many critiques, but the most pertinent is its failure to adequately train its teachers. (See more: Not Yet Competent)
The paper, A Review of 20 years of Competency-Based Training, calls on those working in [...]
IN A LANDMARK paper, “Change, work and learning: aligning continuing education and training“, it is suggested that we need to clearly distinguish between entry level training and continuing education, so we can more readily meet the challenges of the 21st century workplace.
According to the latest statistics, more than 70% of people attending a vocation [...]
WHEN the competency training framework was rolled out in 1987, it met with some strong resistance and criticism from training practitioners and educationalists.
For example, Richard Bagnall wrote a paper in 1996 called “Pluralising Continuing Education and Training in a Postmodern World: Whither Competence”, where he concluded that “from a post-modern perspective it [competency based [...]
