Larks Trainer MOOC April-June 2012: Recap of learning’s Week 1

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.” by Mark Twain. For the week (starting 16th April), the cohort focused on: Web 2.0 tools What is web 2.0? How has it impacted … Continue reading

Technology and Learning – A clash or a perfect union

The buzz surrounding technology is deafening with the millennials taking to it like fish takes to water and the rest of us adopting it somewhat less enthusiastically. The marketers have taken to technology / internet/ social media because that’s where … Continue reading

Trainer MOOC April-Jun 2012: Week 1 Web 2.0 Tools and Understanding the context of learning

This week (starting 16th April), I would urge the cohort to focus on: Web 2.0 tools What is web 2.0? How has it impacted learning? Learning Web 2.0 tools given in “what do you need to know tech wise”. i.e. … Continue reading

Context of Learning today

Today the skills of a lifetime become obsolete in a moment. This is the REALITY most of us are facing. With the rapid changes in the world around us a solid formal education is no longer enough to help us … Continue reading

The Larks Learning Trainer MOOC: What do you need to know tech-wise?

This is for the luddites among us. Those who are tech-savvy please humour us. The aim of this MOOC is to inspire, motivate and enable all of us to embrace new methodologies that use the web. So what do you … Continue reading

Tell me more: Larks Learning’s Trainer MOOC

#Trainer MOOC “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I need to go on learning.” Socrates Ever since the announcement on India’s FIRST and ONLY MOOC on Training, I am getting lots of queries asking to know … Continue reading

Use of constructivism in a training workshop?

Constructivism’s basic principle is that learning is a contextualized, active, and constructive process of constructing knowledge rather than acquiring it. To give an example, today I saw my 4 year old son Romir, playing with “Jenga” and “Hot wheels”, both … Continue reading

Why a massive open online course (MOOC) in training makes sense?

Training is only about presenting well, playing training games and ensuring good feedback. Surely that’s not true! Training after all was a profession and one where you could impact either positively or negatively many people. Over the course of our (mine and Anila’s) 16 year … Continue reading

Why does a DISC certification make sense?

In simple words, “TO STAND OUT“. Why should i get certified? This is the topmost question on a person’s mind when they call to enquire about our certification on DISC. I can relate to that question because I myself was asking myself … Continue reading

9 key things I learnt in my first year as a trainer

Most people I know are allergic to the term ‘training’. For them, it’s nothing more than mumbo jumbo – “just something to attend because it’s mandatory, or because our managers want us to!” To me, it is my life – I’m a … Continue reading