Insights from Learnovate

While historically L&D departments have sat under the remit of Human Resources, many companies have come to realise that learning expertise cannot be shoehorned into an organisation using traditional HR skills and backgrounds.

The 90s were a time of creativity with innovations such as e-commerce, the Hubble Space Telescope and the resurgence of double denim. With such abundant creativity, one could be forgiven for missing the ground-breaking classification developed by Purdue University’s Peggy Ertmer in 1999.

In a memorable opening scene of the movie Robocop thirty years ago, prototype security robot ED-209 fails to reverse an instruction to terminate a target during a demonstration.

What does the scientific research tell us about elearning effectiveness, particularly as it compares with classroom instruction?

In this blog, I focus on the second issue in the broader context of Learning Professionals. The workplace reality is that we as Learning Professionals are dealing with certain challenges that we need to respond to.