Exploring live online learning and cloud technologies

My last piece of work at REDTRAY has been working with Towards Maturity on the UK’s first research into live online learning. We conducted a survey during August 2011 and over 180 learning and development professionals took part in exploring the use of live online learning and virtual classrooms within organisations today. It’s been so…

Start of a new term…

There’s something about September that I think no matter how old you get, always feels like the start of new term. It’s a hangover from our education system and one that I’ve never grown out of, despite having recently reached the grand old age of 32. And so on that note, I can let you know…

Virtual classrooms (or live online learning)

Here at REDTRAY we’re particularly focused at the moment on virtual classrooms – or live online learning if you prefer. Our new CloudRooms offering has got everybody really excited and it is fantastic to have such genuine enthusiasm across the business for something that’s new and which, to some extent, challenges the status quo of training.…

The News of the World is dead…but long live the press

So the News of the World is dead. Killed off on Thursday by News International amidst the on-going scandal surrounding phone hacking. It’s quite incredible. Clearly, the allegations of the phone hacking are beyond comprehension to most of us and, to put it bluntly, sickening. No excuses. But that’s not what I’m here to comment on. As I was pondering…

My new Kindle

My lovely husband recently suprised me by buying me a Kindle.  This is a device for which I had a real hankering, unlike many other new gadgets like the iPad or an Android phone (I’m a Blackberry girl before you ask).  I am a fairly avid reader and this is a past time that has…

Starting with why

One of the hot topics in our industry has been informal learning for a while now. This means different things to different people and I’m not going to get into the merits of informal versus formal learning (not in this particular blog post anyway!).  But something informal I’ve always done and will continue to do,…

Learn At Work Day

Yesterday, Thursday 19 May, was Learn At Work Day (LAWD).  Run by the Campaign for Learning, it’s an annual awareness campaign that’s run since 1999.  It’s designed to ‘promote and support workplace learning events across the country. It aims to draw attention to the importance of workplace learning and skills. It encourages people to offer learning to all…

What was going to be my first post

So one of the things that prompted me to actually jump in and start this blog – and what was going to be the subject of my first post before Jamiroquai hijacked it – was the recent HRD event.  Run at London’s Olympia by the CIPD, this is an annual event and one which I’ve…

First proper post

So I had my first proper blog post all lined up in my head.  But given the fact that I had an extra special Friday night, I’ve decided to postpone that for now and write about something else instead.  I was lucky enough on Friday evening to go to the O2 Arena in London to…

This is me…

…taking the plunge into the world of the blog.  I am lucky enough to work in the learning industry, which is one I find to be forward thinking, engaging and one that continuously strives for improvement and development.  Not surprising really given that the job of learning professionals is to develop their people!  I am…