John Rogers interview

Want to create a sustainable online learning community? John Rogers did it at Barclays. He tells us how.

During his time at Barclays, John Rogers was part of the team that developed, and critically, helped to sustain, one of the most successful online learning communites to date in the UK. Now a consultant with Aztec, we caught up with John to get his views on what makes for sustainable learning.

You can listen to clips from the conversation by clicking play below. If you want to download the audio, use the links. Download times vary; approximately 20 seconds per clip on a broadband connection.


Introduction: What does success look like?

What makes an online learning community successful?
How did it work in Barclays?
You have to pick up the phone sometimes...

(5 mins)

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How to sustain it?

You just gotta have faith (and a few other things)

(4 mins 26 secs)

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Where's it all going? 

Future trends: disintermediation and immediacy
(takes less time to explain than to say..)

(5 minutes 25 seconds)

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Learning as comfort food - in a bad way

John's getting indigestion from all the spoonfeeding..
Learners need to take some responsibility

(5 mins 47 seconds)

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