Learning and HR analyst Fosway Group (formerly known as Elearnity) is celebrating 20 years in business by publishing some of its early insights papers.
These documents make for interesting reading. They show that some of today's learning challenges really are nothing new. Take for example this line on blended learning, which is taken from a paper entitled Better Blending and published in 2002: "The biggest challenge is injecting blended thinking throughout the whole design process."
Or how about this tip on elearning from 2002, taken from the paper Top Ten Lessons of Corporate E-Learning? "Whilst it would be surprising to find a project that does not consult the learners, it is still surprising how limited this turns out to be in practice. In particular, there is a tendency to focus more on their management, rather than on the learners themselves. Often e-learning content makes assumptions about learners and their motivation that turn out not to be valid."
Pretty much every paper has a nugget of information or advice that holds true today. The problem is that so often humans approach a new challenge as if it has never been faced before. These papers are a great reminder that many of the challenges facing L&D are not new and that there are some great insights out there to help shape our thinking.
You can read Fosway Group's early papers here.
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