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Profile of a learning architect: Tiina Paju-Pomfret

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Perhaps the most used feature of the system is the discussion forum, although there is a top-down element as well through corporate blogs, news and videos. Bupa Live also acts as a first port of call in Tiina’s strategy for on-demand learning: “We like employees to use this platform, perhaps posing a question to one of the forums.

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Profile of a learning architect: Nick Shackleton-Jones

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Instead of adopting what Nick describes as a ‘teacherly’ approach to the training, he worked with the safety team to shift the emphasis to a less patronising, more ‘grown-up’ strategy in which employees are encouraged to take responsibility for their own decisions. Nick described the course as an institution.

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Are Facebook friends real friends?

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Last night I attended for the first time a meeting of the Brighton Salon , a forum for debating ideas, which meets every month or so in a restaurant on Brighton seafront. The discussion was kicked off by Helen Birtwhistle, press officer for the Institute of Ideas. But do both diagnoses miss the point?" The very cheek of it!

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Blended learning for management development

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"Usage of online videos increased from 21% a year earlier to 51%, discussion forums from 24% to 40%,and social networking sites from 12% to 34%." "Most organisations consider that it is the nature of the training and development function, where one exists, that is being most affected by the adoption of blended learning.

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Profile of a learning architect: Julie Wedgwood

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The successful adoption of e-learning as an accepted method of delivering training proved to be vital during the swine flu epidemic in 2009. The team kept the groups small and adopted a very relaxed style, using discussion, Q&A and the sharing of screens.