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User generated content; The next trend!

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The world of training and development in the enterprise continues to change rapidly. Learning departments can no longer keep up with the demand for ad hoc knowledge sharing and training requests. The big question is: is content created by subject matter experts (User generated content) a solution for this problem?

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When Technology is your Friend: Regaining Control of your Content

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As power shifts towards university administrations instead of educators, and e-learning becomes more prominent, learning content is becoming increasingly centralized. Instead of perceiving technology as a threat to their independence, university educators should see it as a chance to share the responsibility for creating e-learning content.

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How subject matter experts can create more effective learning

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One of them is the creation of learning content. We know that the software must be so intuitive that anyone can log in and, without any training, can start creating learning material. As a result, subject matter experts often create very content heavy courses that are not effective learning materials.

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What are the 5 most powerful didactical principles?

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The reason I’m asking is because we are doing a project to support our users (most of them do not have an e-Learning background) in creating more effective and didactical sound content. They will go in with a Powerpoint mindset and create very content heavy courses without a proper didactical framework. I will explain in this post.

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Moving learning back to the business

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Cost and speed The development process for learning content is complex, slow and expensive because the people who have the knowledge (subject matter experts/SMEs on the business side) aren't the ones creating the content. Companies hire learning specialists and instructional designers to create the training courses.

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70:20:10 and user generated learning: no way!

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In my definition user generated learning are learning nuggets, courses, quizzes or curated content that is created by the subject matter experts of your organization and shared with the other members of your organization. How many people will actually start creating content, how to control quality, will there be a good return on investment?

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Crowd source your corporate knowledge

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You can also call it the use of user generated content if you want. Over the past few weeks I have spoken to dozens of training managers all over the world. The visionary Learning manager really believes that crowd sourcing or user generated content is the way to go. The demand for training material is increasing.

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