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Learning Trends
Lead Interview
And within the industry what has
made the biggest impact on learning
in recent years?
I think technology has made a huge impact,
not just in e-learning but in everything. I
remember 10 years ago I would go in to
teach a class and bring along a 12-page
hand out with names of books and articles
for people to read; now I’m more likely to
give them a link to go to a web page, with
links to go to other pages. I also think, and
it is a significant change, that more and
more of us do in fact use our computers
and the networks and the internet to get at
what we need to know. For many, the first
step towards finding information is to do a
‘Google’ search.
We have a unique moment right now, to
use technology in order to allow people to
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learn faster. If I know it’s not here I have to
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bring it into my memory, if I can look it up I
don’t have to memorise it. That’s something
that’s uniquely important. Also, I can work
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So what’s the hottest topic in the
industry at the moment?
QHOTELS TRAINING PACKAGE INCLUDES: PLUS FOR THE TRAINER: I think there are a couple. It depends what
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Would you say that adult learners are doing navigation in the ocean and it was
harder to teach? wonderful, but you’ve got to push them a But, if you look at it globally, there are
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I think we have habits and we lean little bit because normally they wouldn’t try three issues that are huge. One is that
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towards our habits. The irony is that those it. As adults we can be very conservative. we are seeing a demographic shift in
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habits are often not very successful, but the workforce; lots of people are retiring
foryou
The QHotels training package is booking we have habits. A bunch of people go to You’re so enthusiastic about the and hopefully they’re leaving behind
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never read those notes again, but it’s a comes from? up some space for people to move up
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habit that they’ve learnt. If you give people What I love about learning and learning the organisation. We’re seeing massive
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a map of everything they’ll learn and professionals is that very few people go numbers of new, young people come in
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instead of a biro, suddenly they’ll learn people I’ve met in the learning field really moment in history and it’s very exciting.
a little differently. I think we have to like what they do. They are impacting How you deal with that demographic shift
overcome some of our habits, we have positively on people’s lives. I am very is a big one.
to try some new things, and often when excited about that; that to me is just an
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adults try new things and they succeed, incredibly good reason to wake up in I think the second one is the content is
they’re wonderfully excited. I had some the morning and do what I do. So I love changing. We are recognising that the tools
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