Performance Learning Productivity

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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

Donald Taylor recently published an article titled ‘ What does ‘LMS’ mean today ?’. Learning can only be managed by the individual in whose head the learning is occurring. They won’t look like the learning management systems installed in the vast majority of organisations across the world today.

PKM 210
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Heading towards high performance

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course we might need face-to-face specialists, but everyone in L&D today needs to be able to operate within a technological environment and enhance what they’re doing through the use of technology.” We are able to provide rich learning opportunities to lots of people located anywhere.” In today’s world we can have both.

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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

Performance Learning Productivity

Information dissemination (often the bulk of many training courses) doesn’t constitute the best use of time for specialists in building workforce knowledge and capability, nor for the intended recipients. There is a lesson in Schmidt’s advice for specialist learning technology interface designers, although it may come too late for some.

Lesson 204
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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

These turbulent economic times have not been kind to two of the large publishers of catalogues and journals - Reader's Digest and Learning Tree International. Learning Tree has been around since 1974. decrease in attendance overall, with management courses down by 13.7% I checked out the 3-day ITIL basic course.

ILT 174
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Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises

Performance Learning Productivity

I just think that she has got it wrong in this piece as to what real learning is and the role that LMS and ‘social learning’ have to play in the mix of building workforce capability and effectiveness in organisations. We shouldn’t confuse what L&D/Training departments spend a lot of their time on with real learning.

Exercise 199