Thu.Feb 21, 2013

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The changing role of L&D: from “packaging” to “scaffolding” plus “social capability building”

Jane Hart

I have been been talking to a number of different organisations recently about the future of the L&D department and in doing so have been building on the diagram I shared in a recent post - where I illustrated how the function of the department is expanding into the new areas of performance support, as well as supporting social collaboration and personal learning.

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Online Training: What's Up With MOOCs?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George  A few weeks ago I talked about online training and posed the question: How big is too big? This week I want to focus on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If any training method is too big, certainly it would have to be the one with "Massive" right there in its name, right? Well, maybe not. I've been doing some research and have found that there is a LOT of information floating around out there.

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Supporting the Learner-To-Performer Continuum

Living in Learning

Training was never intended to support a Performer in their work context. Training is not designed to be agile enough, or flexible enough to adapt to diverse needs, or accessible enough at the moment of need to support a workforce trying to be resilient and responsive in the pursuit of flawless performance. We are being thrust into an environment where we have an extended mission to satisfy needs of a dynamic learning and support ecosystem.

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Activating Raptivity in Online and Offline mode

Raptivity

As a part of our ongoing efforts to help our customers, we have come up with some simple ‘How To’ videos for all our users who have purchased Raptivity recently and need to activate it. The videos take you through [.].

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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Top five tips for accessibility

Saffron Interactive

This short post is an edited excerpt from the Spicy Learning Guide, an essential compendium of 101 tips to improve your learning strategy. Register here to receive your free copy! An inaccessible e-learning course risks non compliance, frustration, anxiety and lost productivity. Saffron’s top ten tips will help you avoid all that and build something accessible, usable and ultimately more effective.

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Coursera’s Daphne Koller

Jay Cross

Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera, has sold me that she has some awesome approaches to making the world a better place for all of us. Her TED talk won me over for many reasons. Just watch it, just F do it. She defends mass learning the way I used to fight for eLearning. Our opponents hurl brickbats that inevitably begin with “How can you prove your stuff is any good?

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Designing mSupport For Android

The eLearning Coach

Instructional Design Guru app gets transported to the world of Android. Post from: The eLearning Coach Designing mSupport For Android.

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Learning to Pull Information

CLO Magazine

Advocates of social networking in business often talk about the cultural change required to make the most of social business programs. Advocates of social networking in business often talk about the cultural change required to make the most of social business programs. There is talk about the shift from a “push” model of information consumption to a “pull” model, which leverages a constant flow of information and knowledge, available anytime and anywhere via a cloud-based

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f You Can Measure It You Can Change It But Whos Willing

Training Industry

A friend and colleague have rightly noted more than once, “If you can measure it, you can change it.” Make no mistake, I agree whole-heartedly. Also make no mistake, not everyone is willing to measure. An effort by the Journal of Applied Psychology reviewed 40 years of the published training and development literature. Reviewing articles, books, papers, presentations and dissertations – the authors included only material related to the evaluation of organizational training and change efforts.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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How to Prevent Leadership Failures

CLO Magazine

The costs of leadership failure, especially at the CEO level, can be high. Here’s what CLOs can do to help prevent it. The failure rate for C-level leaders has increased to an alarmingly high level in the past decade. Last year, The Conference Board reported that 28.6 percent of CEO successions since 2008 were due to dismissals. Moreover, in 2008 Nat Stoddard and Claire Wyckoff, authors of The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit , estimated the costs to replace a CEO at a large company to

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Technorati gives kudos to ProProfs for changing education for the better

ProProfs

Technorati – world’s 3rd largest blog property, recently published an article in which ProProfs was lauded for changing education by introducing innovative ways of creating and administering online education and training. We feel honored to have been mentioned by Technorati, alongside Google + and Screencast, as part of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) movement, which is an initiative to harness technology for making knowledge and learning more accessible to the public.

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Individuals Also to Blame in Work-Life Flexibility Failure

CLO Magazine

Employers and managers aren’t the only ones able to dictate work-life flexibility. Individuals must be proactive, too. New York — Feb. 20 For years, the mandates for more work-life flexibility were directed at organizations and management, but workplace and academic experts say the boss or company are no longer the ones to solely blame for flexibility failure.

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Seeing beyond the classroom

Clive on Learning

When formal learning solutions are necessary (and, if you read this blog regularly, you'll know that I believe there is an important role for formal learning, alongside more non-formal approaches, performance support and experiential learning) then I'd prefer not to rely on a single element, whether that be self-study e-learning, or a classroom session (virtual or face-to-face).

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.

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