Welcome to Epic's learning blog - by Dr Naomi Norman
How’s this for timing?... The launch of Epic’s new website and this, the beginning of Epic’s learning blog, coincides with Adult Learners’ Week – a national campaign to highlight the importance of learning in the workplace and beyond.
Of course, as a bespoke e-learning company with a focus on workplace learning, Epic could claim every week as adult learners’ week, for both its clients and staff. After all, for clients, we are continually designing e-learning that engages, motivates, and enhances understanding. And as staff, we are always undertaking learning activities (both formal and informal) to move our thinking forward.
Over the coming weeks and months this blog will uncover some of the learning themes and issues we meet at Epic in the course of our day-to-day work. Sometimes they arise from conversations on the stairs or over the coffee machine; at other times they arise from meetings with clients, academic seminars, external speaker sessions, or attendance at conferences. More and more they are emerging from our use of technology too – the PowerPoints we stumble across on SlideShare, the presentations we find on YouTube, the research papers we seek out on Google Scholar, or the other learning experts we follow on Twitter.
This week, undoubtedly, new learning discussions will surface from the events we are running at Epic for Adult Learners’ Week:
All week we have a ‘share a skill’ scheme – 45 minute sessions for staff to show off and share their skills with colleagues – from photography to gardening! This is an opportunity for those running the sessions to reflect on instructional design away from e-learning (for a change!); and an opportunity for those attending to be reminded what it feels like to assimilate new concepts and techniques and to be a beginner learner.
Then, on Thursday (which is Learning at Work Day) we are teaming up with leading academics at Oxford University for a highly cerebral event – a seminar entitled ‘Is technology transforming learning, and if so what does it mean for us?’
I’ll be reporting on our thinking as a result of events such as these in this learning blog. My hope is that you will get involved, comment and challenge our views. This will enable you to join in our discussions too and extend our networks for learning even further.
I look forward to some healthy debate – watch this space!
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