Changes in employment patterns have had an enormous impact on learning. The traditional 'state education, followed by a job-for-life' has meant that many people are ill-prepared to take responsibility for their own learning.

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26 September 2024

Identifying training needs is the starting point of the training process. Yet this is often one of the last steps to be considered seriously because a proper needs analysis is difficult and time-consuming.

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24 September 2024

My interest in cryptocurrencies was reignited when a traditional bank blocked my account...

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12 September 2024

Some basic principles, if applied to your own learning or learning you are facilitating, will increase learning effectiveness. I call these principles "The Seven Secrets of Successful Learning".

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5 September 2024

I prefer to draft my articles using a Markdown editor. Markdown has a simple syntax for formatting documents, and it is easy to convert to other formats, which allows my stories to be published on different platforms.

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29 August 2024

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a questionnaire that claims to indicate different "personality types". It was developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. They based their work on Carl Jung's theories.

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8 August 2024

I had been experimenting with the Actifit fitness app until I realised I had been wearing a fitness app for four years! The Actifit app had been using my wearable device to collect data for its own use! The one I'll be describing is the Workout app that you can find on an Apple watch.

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1 August 2024

Gantt charts are used to schedule project tasks. Invented by Henry Gantt, they take the form of a horizontal bar chart with time on the horizontal axis and tasks on the vertical axis. The ends of the bars represent the start and finish times of the tasks.

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25 July 2024