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Hiring for a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of the keys to creating and sustaining a learning culture is hiring people who are continuous learners and who help others learn continuously. You want people who recognize the learning needs of others and can figure out ways to support their growth as part of the day-to-day work of the organization.

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Situated Learning: Essential for a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

Learning in this case required all of the elements of the actual situation: the particular water heater; the basement environment; the pressure I (and my wife) felt to have hot water; and my limited knowledge about modern heating and cooling. We have technology that allows employees to learn when, where, and how they need to learn.

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The theory of psychological safety and what it means for your organization

Matrix

These benefits are easy to pinpoint: constant quality improvements, a strong learning culture, and increased productivity. A culture of psychological safety ensures that employees are more engaged and thus generate lower turnover rates. However, it takes time and sustained effort to build such a culture. Wrapping up.

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How to Hire an Agile Learner

The Performance Improvement Blog

Ask about specific examples of these behaviors in their previous work. Recruit people with the ability to learn a job and adapt as the job changes, which it will. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability.

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning – Part 3: Launching a MOOC

Learnnovators

” Having said this, I also understand that MOOC as a design methodology is flexible and can be crafted to suit an organization’s needs, culture and context. I am calling out a few things to distinguish traditional learning design approaches from a MOOC. FUTURE OF MOOCs – An Example.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 6 – Putting It All Together

Learnnovators

We’ve covered objectives, practice, concepts, examples, and the emotional component. To start with, we will use a sample process as an example, and you will have to infer how to adapt this for you. When people work together the output is better (particularly if you have the right culture and process).

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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 3: LAUNCHING A MOOC

Learnnovators

I came across a telling sentence in the article, MOOCagogy: Assessment, Networked Learning, and Meta-MOOC that completely resonated with my belief of what a MOOC can be, and hence my focus on what it takes to design an ecosystem for a MOOC. I am calling out a few things to distinguish traditional learning design approaches from a MOOC.