Thanks to the hardy souls who braved the wintriest evening of the year so far to join us at the Bristol Ram for the inaugural weelearning, and  a second but no less important thanks to those of you out there who joined in the… Read more ›

As both Dan and I come from a training background we couldn’t help but ask for feedback from those that attended wee1, but clearly there are lots of people who may be interested but couldn’t join us on the night.… Read more ›

Yeah I know there’s Christmas and all that to come, but more importantly wee2 will be here before you know it and we need interesting people to talk about things they feel passionately about. Have you got a burning issue…Read more ›

The Conference season kicks into overdrive this month with BETT, Learning Technologies, Learning and Skills and Learning without Frontiers. We’d all love to go to at least one of these stellar events but most of us can’t afford the time off…Read more ›

A big thanks to the small but hardy group of dedicated learning technology professionals who braved the damp, dark of a bleak mid-winter evening for the second weelearning, again sponsored by Packt Publishing. The value of conversation at the speed…Read more ›

We’ve fixed a date for the next WEELearning event..! And we’ve gone back to being free entry again! And we’ve moved the start time to 6.30pm, so there’s no need to go home after work just head straight down the…Read more ›

  I’ve never really got into the whole tweetchat thing, mostly because the timing is generally inconvenient, but also because there’s something slightly narcissistic about them. Sometimes it feels like they’re more about delivering the killer line and getting 30…Read more ›

Thanks to the hardy souls who braved the winteriest evening of the year so far to join us at the Bristol Ram for the inaugural weelearning, and a second, but no less important thanks, to those of you out there… Read more ›

I’ve been thinking a lot about what weeLearning is and I’d like to tell you how I see it. weeLearning is an attempt to recreate our favourite bit about conferences and seminars. The bit where you head down the pub afterwards…Read more ›

When it comes to designing eLearning courses you can’t deny that branching scenarios that show the consequences of a learner’s choices or actions are the ultimate and the highest form of elearning content. No really you can’t, you’ll be excommunicated…Read more ›

weelearning in July 2012 was a biggest yet, and featured two great talks from some friends of ours. Find out what went on with this brief summary of the evening.Read more ›

You know you've arrived when people send you cool stuff unsolicited. wee regular Gill Chester of Little Man Project created a fantastic infographic to inform people about our little social. Check it out!Read more ›

This morning I took the usual route through the centre of Bristol, past the old Bridewell Police Station, cut through by The Lanes, up to the top of Corn Street, over Bristol Bridge and then down Victoria street. But, cycling…Read more ›

weeLearning 6 was all about video in learning, here's what people were saying about itRead more ›

We’ve been asking people to post their thoughts on this Google Doc around curation in learning ahead of our next event Curate? Create Debate! Craig Taylor left a comment and he got me thinking (he has a habit of doing that)… Most…Read more ›

Three things that are probably true at least some of the time: 1 - Online curation began as a marketing technique. It’s a way to build a brand and a relationship with customers/ audiences without trying to directly sell them…Read more ›

When I first started using social media for learning it was ALL about blogs. Blog posts by Jane Hart, Harold Jarche, Clive Shephard, Tom Kuhlman - this is how I learned about eLearning, I took what they said and tried…Read more ›

This post is part of the L&D Connect HR Blog Carnival, which this year is going under the seasonal theme of "When potential comes to fruition." When L&D people talk about "potential" it’s usually in conjunction with the idea of…Read more ›

OK so I’ve been struggling to write this post for several days now, mostly because I keep learning interesting new things and I’m probably suffering from some sort of information overload, albeit a rather inspiring kind. So instead of the…Read more ›

You are considering creating a game or using gamification in some way (and you know as little as I did a week ago) "Games are really powerful learning tools, but that’s not how we tend to build them, we tend…Read more ›

The last weeLearning event for 2012 was called Play to Learn. We were delighted to be joined by Tomas and Debbie Rawlings from Auroch Digital and John Curran from Designed for Learning. Tomas kicked things off by talking about the…Read more ›

The first weeLearning of 2013 was big on ideas, here's what you missed...Read more ›

If you’re lucky enough to be heading to this week’s Learning Technologies Conference or Exhibition, one thing is guaranteed, you’re going to meet a lot of cool, interesting people. You may even end up down the pub with one or…Read more ›

Most events we go to are about listening to other people talk about the great things they’ve done. Or, listening to industry gurus talk about the best way to do one thing or another. That’s fine and dandy, but it…Read more ›