It gives me no joy to post this one, but as a practitioner I feel compelled to give it a voice... Several months ago I emailed the lead author of an academic paper, because I wanted to clarify an aspect of the study that was being reported. I am yet to receive a reply. Alas,…

E-Learning Provocateur By Ryan Tracey

11.03.2025

Wrecking ball – E-Learning Provocateur

Miley Cyrus's Wrecking Ball may be an ode to the impact of artificial intelligence on higher education. Since the launch of ChatGPT in particular, traditional means of assessment – such as essays and assignments – have been usurped by students who use the robot to write it for them. From what I can gather, the…

E-Learning Provocateur By Ryan Tracey

17.06.2025

The traps of performance consulting – E-Learning Provocateur

As a panellist at this year's L&D Symposium in the Hunter Valley, I was asked: Should L&D practitioners be recast as performance consultants? It's one of those questions that does the rounds every so often – at least over the decade since I wrote The caveat of the performance centre – and my answer since…

E-Learning Provocateur By Ryan Tracey

08.07.2025

Sandwich makers – E-Learning Provocateur

The latest research paper to cause a stir among my peers is Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task by a bunch of boffins from Massachusetts, mostly MIT. It's quite long (over 200 pages) but in the interests of time, I consider the premise of…

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