ID Reflections

MARCH 3, 2014

Using the Cynefin framework as the anchor, I have tried to map out different aspects of workplace learning and performance, capability development and talent management. Refer to the following posts to understand concepts like extract and embed learning, and economy of scale vs. economy of creativity better.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

The difference between the terms “ learners ” and “ learned ” and what it implies when applied to the experts in our organizations is crucial in today’s environment of constant change. This is a must read books for trainers/learning and development professionals/anyone interested in the phenomenon called learning.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

I have been deviating from the key themes of this blog, i.e., learning, performance, training and collaboration, for some time now. They are as much a part of me as all things learning. With today’s post, I am back on the theme of learning and its impact on performance—personal and organizational. Expertise is domain specific 3.

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ID Reflections

MAY 10, 2010

The candidate should understand instructional design theories and models and should effectively apply them to develop eLearning content. You should analyze client requirements, assess learner profiles, and design teaching/learning models that are tailor made for the target audience. Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Why Mobile Learning The strongest Value Proposition for mobile learning comes from connecting people with ideas, information, and each other—anytime, anywhere! Ten years back, Clark Quinn’s statement about mobile learning seemed wishful thinking. Today, mobile learning is no longer a buzzword. It has arrived.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

I have been writing about MOOCs in the context of workplace learning from different perspectives for some time now. A MOOC is an intrinsically participative, collaborative mode of learning. Having said that, MOOCs require certain skills from participants, which I like to describe as " learning how to learn in the networked world."

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

This is a continuation of my MOOC series and also a post that draws a lot from the #MSLOC430 community and MOOC ("C" type) that I am participating in -- the open section of the graduate course in the Master''s Program in Learning and Organizational Change at Northwestern University. The central term in this definition is connections.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A recent, very brief conversation with @krishashok triggered a few thoughts related to emergent workplaces and what learning in the networked world will look like. It takes a relational stance in which learning takes place both in relation to others and in relation to learning resources. It will become the norm.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

I am copying a discussion we have been having on LinkedIn as a part of the Training&Development group. I started this discussion to understand the roles (tacit and explicit) that a learning consultant plays. Here’s to continuous, lifelong learning! Collective Learning rocks!!! Comments (12). Prabha Kuksal.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Tags: Blogs Reflection learning Personal PLN.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2010

I am re-reading Informal Learning by Jay Cross and was going through the resource links he has provided. Apart from the book, which is a must read for anyone interested in the field of learning, the resource links are gold mines of knowledge, information and insights. Tags: Learning Resources.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 19, 2009

If you have ready any of the books, do share your comments/reviews/key learning. Pink Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner Winning E-Learning Proposals: The Art of Development and. Tags: Reading Books learning Design. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H.

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Design Tagging Learning Develop 109

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Steve Denning What is common across the learning modes and methods mentioned? These are essentially “pull” and collaborative learning modes and cannot be imposed. Having said that, a major percentage of organizations today are striving to put in place one or more of the above-mentioned modes and tools of learning.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The learning leaders who understand the difference are the ones who succeed. Lead with a performance strategy , not a learning strategy. For far too long we have designed learning approaches to every problem. Building learning tools that both support and teach. He also stresses the importance of: 1.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2010

I am more into books about learning and performance, training, design, creative thinking, innovation and management, writing, and the like. However, increasingly in my role as an Instructional Designer (ID), I have run up against the necessity to not only multi-task but also to think beyond training solution, learning needs and design.

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ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

I have pasted the question here: "In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?" This month's Big Question from LCB has received a huge response.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2010

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 21, 2010

It takes years to develop design sense; years to understand why a certain sentence just sounds more right than another; years to design a learning experience as opposed to slides full of chunks of text. But in this business of learning that we are in, quality has to be of paramount importance. Fast is measurable; so is cheap.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I believe they are all very essential reads for today’s learning and development folks. 1 Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Richard Mayer. 2 Workplace Learning The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge. 3 Workplace Learning Informal learning Jay Cross. SoMe/Collaboration/Workplace learning Enterprise 2.0

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Social Networks Cognitive Enterprise 2.0 Social Network 172

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This impacts the way they take responsibility for their personal learning as well. There are organizations that encourage and facilitate self-driven learning. There are workers who take charge of their own personal and professional developments. While this seems like a sweeping indictment, it is not meant to be one.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2014

which while not as far reaching as MOOCs, further stretches the boundaries of online learning. MOOCs--for all the debate, angst and confusion surrounding them--have changed the face of online education and learning for good. But does that mean I have not learned? We can love it or hate it, but we can’t ignore it. Of course not!

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This post is triggered by Sumeet Moghe’s My Take on the “Typical E-learning Projects”. The resultant confusion: The loopholes in the report begin to show up when put to the test—that is, when the solution is actually developed and presented to the customer. You have to see his post first. Why what happens happens the way it does?

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Organizations, i.e., the business leaders and executives are not interested in learning. It is up to us--L&D professionals--to connect learning and collaboration to business goals like customer satisfaction, efficient troubleshooting, innovative design ideas, reduced production time, and such. Business cares only about the outcome.

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ID Reflections

MAY 30, 2013

But before I sketch out who or what Umesh is and what I learned from him, I have to set the context of my work. This is far removed from my earlier world of corporate workplace learning and community management but that is the subject of another post. And got insights into life, learning and leadership from him.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It has helped me to develop my personal learning network (PLN) and enabled my PKM. It is perfectly possible to share one’s experience over a “lunch & learn” session; however, if that session can also be aired on Hangout, the impact is amplified tenfold. A distributed workforce requires a digital platform for connect.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

PKM: our part of the social learning contract Creating good content on a platform that lets users (teachers & learners) add context may be the the real killer application in education. Content developers and institutions have been so concerned with protecting their content that they don’t see where the real value lies.

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ID Reflections

MAY 31, 2015

The chat was full of insights and learning, as always. And the trigger for this post was the question: How will learning & development shift in a PDW ? Passionate, purpose-driven individuals do not need hand-holding and a checklist of training thrust at them to develop skills they require.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

What does Agile have to do with Informal Learning and Instructional Design? With training being developed in tandem with product development today, scope of work can only be planned for in phases. It means creating opportunities for self learning, exploration and collaboration. The Future of Software Development ( 6.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 6, 2014

I believe MOOCs, especially when referred to in the context of the workplace, are increasingly going to become a catch-all term for any online, large scale, learning intervention at the workplace. Corporate MOOCs will be a pathway to social and informal learning into the workplace. But I am willing to hazard a few guesses.

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Social Networks Benefits Forum Community 189

ID Reflections

MAY 18, 2010

These were the key points the client needed to understand to get a feel of what happens behind the scene in elearning development. While I can't say this project changed the world, but it definitely changed me ( because of all I learned and learning is change ) and added a world of altogether different perspectives.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

The impact of technology, globalization, ubiquitous connectivity, remote work and distributed work teams, and economy of individuals to name a few drivers have changed the face of workplace learning and performance dramatically. They must support an environment where continuous learning and innovation are the key differentiators.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While we (L&D) keep talking about complexity and ambiguity and enabling learners to acquire the skills of "learning how to learn", we know that we need to transform and redefine ourselves and our role in the organization to add value to business. Learning how to learn" is a skill not everyone has. I think yes.

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ID Reflections

APRIL 14, 2011

Not all are related to learning or the workplace.This time, I came up with a list of 17. I thought I would share my reading list of the last 6 months here.It's a random assortment but each one has expanded my thought-process in some way.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

It has been a long and exciting journey so far, dotted with exciting projects, some wonderful clients, and a tremendous amount of learning. Learning--especially in today's workplace beset with complexity, rapid change, and new challenges--as we knew it was changing. The age of social learning is here. Powered by enterprise2.0

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2011

This post is a summary of the key learnings from the article. This is why it becomes important to develop Adaptive Thinking skills through deliberation. Expertise in Adaptive Thinking develops out of deliberate practice, which is at the heart of ATTM. Here, by taught I am trying to imply that Adaptive Thinking can be acquired.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Social Learning isn't all about the Tools - 4 Factors to Consider (learninggeneralist.com). How John Chambers Learned to Collaborate at Cisco. Tags: weak ties Knowledge Management Business learning Collaboration Networking. The Evolving Social Organization (jarche.com). Changing times (jarche.com).

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. I would love to learn from the challenges you’ve faced and overcome…. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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