Founder Sally Burns has been running a content creation business for some years, helping female founders and experts to create beautifully crafted content for their own audiences via the LearnWorlds platform. Sally’s vision to scale this up required a learning platform that emphasises collaboration and connection over completion and content monetisation (which excludes most of…
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Numerous research studies show that effective learning in organisations comes from three areas: experiential learning (real-world tasks) making up the bulk; social learning (interactions with others) following in second place; and structured, formal education in last place and making up just a small percentage of how we learn. This is why LMS products, traditionally focussed…
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In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked. Personal experiences of grappling with closing down products have revealed a stark absence of guidance of case studies to navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own real-world experiences across various…
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In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked. Personal experiences of grappling with closing down products have revealed a stark absence of guidance of case studies to navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own real-world experiences across various…
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In the world of software development, the topic of end-of-life scenarios often remains overlooked. Personal experiences of grappling with closing down products have revealed a stark absence of guidance of case studies to navigate such situations effectively. This series of blog posts aims to fill this gap, drawing from my own real-world experiences across various…
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My piece for Thrive’s AI newsletter about setting up a new AI team for the business and some of the innovations they’ll be working on through 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-made-me-do-our-journey-searching-ai-team-thrivelearning-k0bpe
The final project at my last role involved extracting seven years of learner data for 80,000 learners from an LMS that was being decommissioned. The shock of our vendor’s £150,000 quote to both extract and host 3TB of learner data led me to explore a robotic process automation (RPA) solution using a low cost browser…
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This article was originally posted on LinkedIn during May 2023. I’ve seen a lot of LinkedIn posts recently about professionals who do voluntary work, and then use those experiences to sell their services. You know what I mean: “Look at me coaching my baseball team, we do such a great job building resilience in our kids.…
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This article was originally posted to LinkedIn during April 2023. About five years ago at Brightwave, we worked on a chatbot prototype for The Samaritans. The chatbot was a learning simulation tool, with the chatbot acting out the part of Bella, a bullied teenager. The training was for listening volunteers who were increasingly supporting people…
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People have been trying to find educational uses for blockchain for many years now. I try to carve out a little time every year to see if any research projects have matured into industry products but it’s never a productive search. There are always dedicated practitioners (mostly academics) running proof of concepts, and many more…
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