Mark Berthelemy

Mark Berthelemy

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Mark Berthelemy - Customer Account Manager

Mark Berthelemy is a learning and communications technology professional with many years experience across the educational, corporate, and public sectors. He is a specialist in elearning and social learning, and is on the board of the Elearning Network - a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing guidance on best practice and future trends in technology-based learning and development at work.

He is one of Xyleme's Customer Account Managers, supporting clients around the world as they implement the Xyleme LCMS and associated software. Prior to joining Xyleme, Mark led on learning technology for Capita - a 45,000 strong outsourcing company. His projects included implementing technology to support learning for 450,000 UK Civil Servants, and managing the elearning component of a training programme for the 45,000 Census field-force in 2011.

As well as writing for Xyleme, Mark has a long-standing blog at www.learningconversations.co.uk, which is the space where he thinks out loud, and seeks feedback from his personal learning network.

Mark can be found on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/berthelemy and on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/markberthelemy

Social Learning: Now Everyone Is An Expert

By Mark Berthelemy

You’re looking for a present, say a new tool for your workshop, and there are a number of options, from different manufacturers and at slightly different price points… Most of us, these days, would check out the reviews – perhaps those on the retailer’s website, or on generic review sites like http://www.reviewcentre.com/ or from specialist magazines. Some would ask in subject-specific forums, Facebook groups or using a suitable Twitter hashtag. You’re likely to find huge amounts of information, but how do you know which is accurate?

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Changing Role of the LMS

By Mark Berthelemy

It seems that, for years, people have been writing obituaries for the corporate Learning Management System (LMS). Just do a quick search for “LMS is dead” and you’ll find many blog posts, articles, webinars and conference presentations discussing its demise. Some people, myself included, have even been actively working towards this end trying to hasten its death through carefully worded argument and debate. The trouble is that many organisations have invested heavily in their LMS. Somehow that investment needs to be recouped.

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Buzzword: Micro-learning

By Mark Berthelemy

I was introduced recently to a new buzz word making its way across the learning & development industry: Micro-learning.

If you’re like me, you’re probably starting to get a bit tired of people adding their particular spin to learning – all in search of the holy grail that is the “right way” to make learning happen.

It doesn’t exist.

But having got that out of the way, it is worth looking at these ideas to see if there’s anything we, as learning professionals, can learn from them.

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