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Nic Laycock

Managing Director, Amos Laycock Consulting

With over 35 years experience in learning as practitioner, manager, and consultant, Nic Laycock is passionate about applying technology to learning. Nic believes social learning is the key to Smart Working in business improvement. Convinced about how social media empowers learning, he is an active Tweeter, writer, and blogger about aspects of online communities in the workplace. Now living and working back in the U.K., Nic spent the 17 years prior to 2009 in South Africa and he has worked in many industries and on five continents. Nic is a former winner of the U.K. National Training Award.

  • EMEA Reporter: Mobile in Action—a High-end Case Study
    Workflow Learning & Microlearning

    EMEA Reporter: Mobile in Action—a High-end Case Study

    Germany’s KWS has taken a new leap into the future, aiming to bring mobile delivery of highly complex power plant operator training into the workplace and beyond—into 24/7 access for employees. Here’s the story, and an interview with the developer behind it all.

    By Nic Laycock •
    September 5, 2013
  • EMEA Reporter: Keri Facer and Rethinking Education for an Unpredictable World
    Professional Development

    EMEA Reporter: Keri Facer and Rethinking Education for an Unpredictable World

    Welcome to Nic Laycock, our newest columnist! Nic will be reporting each month on eLearning in EMEA – Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In his first column, his focus is on the comments of Keri Facer, keynote speaker at PELeCON12 in the UK, about the nature of learning in an uncertain future.

    By Nic Laycock •
    May 3, 2012

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