by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 10, 2018 | Learning design, Professional development
Last fall a connection of mine told me about the Canada-B.C. Job Grant, a pot of money available to B.C. employers to “support skills training for their current and new employees”. Since I employ myself in my own business, I was happily able to take...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 28, 2018 | Learning design, Teaching online
A couple of weeks ago I finished teaching the online course that I teach at this time every year. It’s called “Innovation Tools and Processes” and is the second course in Royal Roads University’s Graduate Certificate in Workplace Innovation. I...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 18, 2018 | Professional development
Attending the Victoria-based SOHO Victoria conference is now becoming an annual “date” with my entrepreneur self and many other like-minded people. SOHO is aimed at entrepreneurs and I’ve now had the pleasure of attending twice. As I was reviewing my...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 13, 2018 | Facilitation
Yesterday I facilitated a short session for a local networking group, the Sooke Women in Business, about how to engage participants when doing speaking events. Of course I planned for the session to be very participatory and I asked the group to come up with...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 2, 2018 | Learning design
It was a pleasure for me to work this past winter with Victoria Hospice, a Victoria-based non-profit which provides end-of-life care focused on palliative treatment. Victoria Hospice’s Education & Research Department contacted me last year for learning...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 23, 2018 | Learning design, Online facilitation, Workshops
Last October I co-facilitated the “FLO Synchronous” course for the third time, with a class of over 20 people from various BC post-secondary institutions. FLO Synchronous is short for “Facilitating Learning Online: Synchronous”, a three-week...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 4, 2018 | Educational technology, Learning design
One of the projects I worked on this year through my work at Royal Roads University in faculty development was creating an online interactive resource in Articulate Storyline. It’s a simple tool that is intended to help faculty members choose between RRU faculty...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Dec 19, 2017 | Business back end
As the year gets closer to putting itself to bed and I begin to get excited about taking two weeks of holidays over the Christmas break, I thought I’d put in one final post to look back on some of the things that stood out for me this year. I have a lot to be...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 24, 2017 | Consulting
I find with my line of work that people that I meet often have questions about what I do, particularly in relation to something that they are trying to do with a workshop, course or program of their own. With that in mind, I’ve decided to offer a new service...