I have decided that I will step aside as CEO of Easygenerator. Starting January 1, 2022, I will become the company’s Co-founder and Chief Learning Strategist instead. Let me explain.   This past December first marks 11 years since I became the CEO of Easygenerator. In these 11 years, I have played my role in bringing the organization to where it is today. In this period we switched the tool from an instructional design tool to a tool for employees based on our Employee-generated learning approach. We ..read more

When we started building Easygenerator back in 2013, we had a vision about our product, but we also had a clear idea about what kind of company we wanted to become. We knew that it is the people that make your company; they define the heart and soul of the company. Now, eight years later, we are the company I hoped to become. We are a group of 83 people with very different backgrounds, but all very committed to Easygenerator. We focus on bringing real value to our customers with a great product, great vision, great support, and above all, a great team.   We are highly international. Alth ..read more

Many thousands of subject matter experts (SMEs) capture and share their knowledge in the form of a course or assessment using Easygenerator. As we are working closely with our customers, we gained new insights about how to manage and improve the quality of the content in a smarter way. Old school quality control When companies start with Employee-generated Learning there is always a concern about the quality of the content. The fear is that SMEs will create ineffective content because they do not have any Instructional design or didactical knowledge. And the initial reflex is often: co ..read more

Being the CEO of a company that revolves around learning technology I have to watch the trends in Learning & Development. I even have to predict what will be next. I need to be ahead of the game in order to steer my company in the right direction. For this purpose, I made an analysis of the changes that I see and I wanted to share these insights. Move towards informal learning This trend started a long time ago with Jay Cross, with his “workplace learning” approach. This was followed by the “70:20:10” trend and is now further enforced with the “Five moments of learning needs”. All ..read more

This morning started with an extra "Dutch" session by Rob Lauder, the CLO of Mc Donalds. He gave us a detailed overview of the setup of Mc Donalds training programs. They employ 1.9 million people and they have 1 million new hires every year. Mc Donald knows that for crew employees they will be their first job and they will move on pretty soon. Their training program is focus on this, making sure their employees are ready for their next job. Pretty cool. Rob Lauber presenting at Learning2019 My notes on Rob's presentation (click to enlarge)Elliot Masie and Nigel Paine did a session toget ..read more

The second day of Learning 2019. A full packed schedule with many sessions, keynotes, planned and unplanned meetings. Today started early at 6.45 with an extra "Dutch session" by Molly Petroff from the St Vincent Hospital. Molly is a workflow specialist already for 12 years. She showed us how they got started and what they have learned along the way. They created based on the main processes in the hospital, a performance support environment using the five moments of learning need. For me, as a "tool man" I could not help noticing how simple the tooling is they use. It is a reference guide ..read more

Brandon shared the insights he learned as a learning manager at Home Depot and Delta on living, working and learning Kasper's mind map on Brandon Carlson (click to enlarge ..read more

Donald Taylor is (among other things) the Chairman of the Learning and Performance institute. David discussed the trends that emerge from the surveys they do. Kasper's mind map on the trends and megatrends by Donald Taylor (click to enlarge ..read more

Bob Mosher did an exclusive Dutch session this morning at Learning 2019 Bob presentingBob became very passionate when explaining the difference between learning in or while working and made a strong point that for workplace learning it is Learning while working.Kasper's mind map on Bob Moshers session (Click to enlarge ..read more

At Learning 2019 there is a separate extra track for a group of 45 Dutch learning people. I was allowed to join their sessions. The first session was with Elliot Masie. Elliot sold the event last year, but at 69 he is still amazing. Elliot presenting at Learning 2019 for the Dutch groupEliot started by showing his presentation, which was just this slide: Elliots trendsI made my notes during this session in this mind map: Kasper's notes of Elliot Masies Dutch session at Learning19us (click to enlarge ..read more