Blog of the week 16: Lars Hyland

This week’s BOTW goes to Lars Hyland.

Now, Lars works for learning technology company Brightwave, but this isn’t a company blog. It’s the musings of someone with plenty of experience and insight in the UK learning industry.

What I like about Lars is how he picks up on piece of research. Like this lot:

Research into how we learn
Research into the role of the placebo effect on confidence and development
Neuroscience or Pseudoscience?
Learning is a health issue

Can you spot the trend? A focus on hard fact and research, which is exactly what the learning and development profession could do with more of.

I only have two gripes with Lars’ blog.

First – the thing’s in Blogger. My opinion of Blogger is that’s is fine for the diaries of flighty teenagers, but no good when you’re creating something that is a resource for the future. Write a gem if you like, but you’ll never find it again – and neither will your readers. I reckon Lars has been infected with Blogger by fellow Brightonians Clive Shepherd and Donald Clark. Lars, it’s not too late to switch to WordPress!

Second – you can’t always tell from the title what a piece is about (in the list above, all but the last title are mine). Of course this could just be a clever way of making you actually read the entry to find out, so maybe Lars has the last laugh after all.