AI and the Slippery Slope of Frictionless Intelligence | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Moving the Needle with Recognition of Prior Learning: How the language of RPL is a strategic lever tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2026/06/movi... #RPL #PLAR #RecognitionOfPriorLearning #CAPLA #SkillsRecognition #LifelongLearning #WorkforceDevelopment #InternationalDayOfRecognition

Writing is meaningful to me because I am okay sitting with the unfinished and appreciative of the wrestle to get to the finish line. But based on how a lot of writing is being produced today, I do wonder about what kind of writing still matters. tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2026/05/writ...

An MIT writing professor on his students using AI: "The danger isn’t that AI will replace writers or render the workshop obsolete. It’s that students are becoming accustomed to bypassing the friction that once revealed their process." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

From human 'in the loop' to human 'in the lead' As #AI is reshaping our work and our world, instead of thinking about whether or not we keep humans in the loop, the more important question is to think intentionally about how to keep humans in the lead! www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

Definition of learning by Shuell (as interpreted by Schunk, 1991): “Learning is an enduring change in behavior, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which results from practice or other forms of experience” p.2, Schunk, D. H. (1991). Learning theories: An educational perspective.

How to Maintain Ownership When Writing with AI theelearningcoach.com/ai/maintain-... via @elearningcoach.bsky.social

Check out the Women In Learning State of the Industry Report www.hellandd.com/women-in-lea...

Check out my latest article: CredX2026: Making Recognition a Verb www.linkedin.com/pulse/credx2... #CredX2026 #CredX #Recognition #RPL #Credentials #Microcredentials

Designed for Learning!: CredX2026: Making Recognition a Verb tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2026/04/cred... My take from #CredX2026 #CredX #Recogniton #Credentials #Microcredentials #Skills

We don't have a skills or #credentialing problem, we have a #recognition problem. The more I hear “skills gap,” the more I question what we actually mean. The issue is not always the absence of #skills. It is the absence of systems that can see them. www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna... #RPL #PLAR

I do wonder about how a lot of writing is being produced today...and what kind of writing still requires a human. www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

A Commonwealth Approach to Micro-credential Framework Implementation hdl.handle.net/11599/6129 #Microcredentials #LifelongLearning #HigherEducation #TechnicalVocationalEducationandTraining #TVET #SkillsDevelopment #DigitalBadges #RecognitionofPriorLearning #RPL @jakoli4.bsky.social

Such a great conversation! Worth your time. Naomi Klein & Karen Hao: The Empire of AI and the Fight for Our Future at Chan Centre, UBC youtu.be/Z1B__Efqacc?...

Lessons from the Far Side of the Moon www.linkedin.com/pulse/lesson... #Intelligence #HumanInTheLead #HumanInTheLoop

What a powerful read! "In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing." www.npr.org/2005/08/08/4...

"A dollar is fungible. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude is fungible. A mass of people bound together by years of shared context, inside jokes and collective memory is not." www.joanwestenberg.com/communities-...

We are always talking about more courses, more skills, more knowledge. But in practice, growth also comes from subtracting. www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. - Brian Herbert

Heading to #CredX2026 at VCC on 15-16 April in Vancouver. Looking forward to talking shop on all things #Microcredentials #Badges #Recognition and #IndustryInsights www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

"Training doesn’t transfer...People transfer...under conditions we create". - John Whitfield #TransferOfLearning #Training #Transfer

Names as the most powerful form of recognition. www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna... #RPL #PLAR #Recognition

What is often called as the 'skills gap' is actually a 'recognition gap' i.e. the gap between acknowledging that competence exists outside formal education, and actually building the infrastructure to assess and recognize it. www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

I finally read @donaldhtaylor.bsky.social L&D Global Sentiment Survey (GSS) 2026 report last week, and here are some of my thoughts after reading and digesting it! www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

Where Rigour Meets Relationships tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2026/02/rpl-... #RPL #PLAR #Recogniton #Competencies #Learning

In RPL (and life), it's important to clarify what counts. If we count experience over learning, we may end up validating years instead of validating competencies. Here's my take on why we call "RPL" Recognition of Prior Learning, not Recognition of Prior Experience. lnkd.in/gyk5g-yx

7 Tips for Writing Realistic Wrong Answers in Branching Scenarios christytuckerlearning.com/7-tips-for-w...

PLAR/RPL is not a shortcut. It is another door that offers an opportunity to recognize & validate competencies. The standards don't change; the path to demonstrate the standard becomes flexible. www.linkedin.com/pulse/recogn... #RecognizingPriorLearning #PriorLearningAssessmentAndRecognition

Do you think about the unexpected use(s) of the learning products/ services you create? Do you imagine how your “learning product” may be reused, reshared, or remixed in serendipitous ways? www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

Contrary to popular belief and savvy marketing lines, personalization doesn’t automatically transform mediocre training into something impactful. www.linkedin.com/pulse/person... #Learning #Personalization #Training

The real impact of our work as L&D lies not only in what people learn but in how they behave/perform and how they connect, with themselves, with each other and with the work they do.

Reflecting on 2025 - Looking Back, Moving Forward www.linkedin.com/pulse/lookin...

Happy to be in such good company! Lots to think and mull about when it comes to the future of human work >> The TIDES 2026 Playbook: 23 Leaders on the Future of Human Work open.substack.com/pub/tidespod...

If AI were a song, movie, or book title, what would it be? Well… I definitely have an answer, but you will have to watch the vodcast to hear it! #BCcampus #DLSF2025 www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

I will be speaking at the #DigitalLearningStrategyForum! Join me to connect with educators and leaders across B.C and explore strategies to support digital learning and teaching practices! November 18–20, 2025, Virtual, Free ow.ly/SIhq50XqElR www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

From Choice to Judgment: Redefining Self-Directed Learning for the AI Era tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2025/11/from...

One of the key elements of culture that fuels positive coaching experiences is the capacity of the organization & leadership to talk about learning from mistakes and failures. #coaching #culture #learning

Attending the CLO Symposium with Ryan Decoste kicking things off with "What it Means to Stay Human in an AI-Driven World"

Thursday thoughts: Communication and Understanding are completely different things. What you communicate may not ever be understood. What you understand might have never been communicated.

The Real Work of Training Lies Beyond Knowing and Telling tarunagoel.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

How to integrate Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies meaningfully (rather than superficially). www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

I am not in the business of 'learning' or 'training'; I am in the business of maximizing 'performance'.

Workslop - low-quality output that looks AI-generated and needs to be cleaned up. Via Adam Grant www.linkedin.com/posts/adammg...

How might we use Cathedral Thinking to design not just for today, but for future generations?https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tarunagoel_cathedral-thinking-designing-for-the-next-activity-7375955413994971136-DjyW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABJjUEBW9TnTx4DmBoCLa-rznBR-qzeh08

Until the myth exists, us myth busters need to keep working! Busting The Myth of Learning Styles www.techlearning.com/news/busting...

"The real challenge isn't managing different generations – it's letting go of age-based assumptions that may be limiting leadership potential." trainingzone.co.uk/is-generatio...

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Throwing it back to 2015! #Blimage #Learning #ReflectivePractice #Throwback #Lrnchat www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...

Was at a concert yesterday and the Artist (Kailash Kher) shared that instead of dishing out knowledge (‘gyan’), we should focus on paying attention (‘dhyaan’). What people often need isn’t more information, it is someone who truly listens and connects.

The challenge ahead is not about making AI think better, but to make it care better. www.linkedin.com/posts/taruna...