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KAPP NOTES FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Three Tips for e-Learning Dominance Wouldn’t it be great to have the most dominant, overruling, kick butt e-learning imaginable. meaning people actually learned and applied what you wanted them to learn and apply from taking your e-learning module). Here are three tips to help you achieve that goal. ONE: Make the learning meaningful. The learner needs to see an immediate need and application of the content to what they are doing. Make it realistic, targeted and focused on actions and activity. This is accomplished by giving the learner an actual situation in which they need to apply the knowledge you are hoping they learn. | CLIVE ON LEARNING FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Online learners need the means, the motive and the opportunity Means, motive and opportunity might be necessary if you are to convince a jury to convict in a trial, but they also apply in a wide variety of other circumstances, not least whether or not learning technologies make sense for a particular population: Means Learners need the means to engage with technology, in particular the IT literacy. While not so long ago this was a major obstacle, even in developed economies, the problem is fast reducing. Just about every electronic gadget we use - a telephone, a tablet, a TV, a DVD player, a games console - is at heart a computer and works like one. | CLARK QUINN FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Social media budget line item? Where does social media fit in the organization? In talking with a social media entrepreneur over beers the other day, he mentioned that one of his barriers in dealing with organizations was that they didn’t have a budget line for social media software. That may sound trivial, but it’s actually a real issue in terms of freeing up the organization. In one instance, it had been the R&D organization that undertook the cost. In another case, the cost was attributed to the overhead incurred in dealing with a merger. These are expedient, but wrong. There are worries if it’s IT. | LEARNING CONVERSATIONS FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Who owns corporate social media? With many corporate systems now coming with in-built social media tools, and bottom-up systems like Yammer & Socialcast gaining large numbers of users through exponential growth, who's job is it to prevent fragmentation of your internal social networks? It seems like every corporate tool now has some element of social media contained within it. Sharepoint 2010 comes with a range of community tools (blogs, ratings, tagging etc). Salesforce has integrated its fully-featured Chatter social collaboration and networking product. Oracle has got the " Oracle Social Network " product. Social medi | | | | | | | |
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LEARNING VISIONS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Write the Questions First.
"Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." ~ Rainer Marie Rilke, from “Letters to a Young Poet". Words to live by. And, it turns out, words by which to design instruction. Read more in Kineo Top Tip 64: Write the Questions First MORE >> -
ONLIGNMENT | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Why training may not always be the right course of action – part 2
In the first part of this series we listed some well-known and tragic cases of under-performance, and asked, “If the people were trained, how could things go so badly wrong?” Here we’ll investigate why people do not get things right first time, every time, and we’ll examine 6 prime factors that prevent people from performing to the necessary standard. Why don’t people get things right first time, every time? There are 6 common reasons why performance deficit might occur. 1) Task perception. People follow the wrong instructions, or fail to realise their personal responsibility for an outcome. MORE >> -
CLARK ALDRICH | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Sim designer tip: The best subject matter experts talk in visual metaphors.
Some very smart people use a lot of very big, intellectual, and conceptually precise words and phrases to describe a situation (such as "Orthogonal" and "Force multiplier"). Others may introduce classic metaphors (such as "Manifest Destiny" and "The Sword of Damocles"), often based on cultural literacy. But I have found the best subject matter experts (SMEs) for creating educational simulations and serious games speak in highly vivid, simple, visual metaphors. They use basic examples or abstractions to make complex processes very clear. Put out the bait and see if he bites. That dog won't hunt. MORE >> -
LIVING IN LEARNING | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Who Threw That?
A question many of us have sought to answer…or maybe “predict”…came up in one of my networking groups this morning. When you do you know that the Learning & Development function in your organization is fully developed?” The answer to this may be as impossible to define as it is to nail Jell-O to the wall. Methinks being fully developed, means being in a constant state of "evolution" with a minimum of resistance to change. Learning @ the Point of Work Learning Ecosystems learning at point of work learning continuum learning ecosystem learning environment LinkedIn MORE >> -
DAVE'S WHITEBOARD | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012 Surgery via text message
I have a collection of job aids, some going back more than 50 years. I keep them for various reasons: some are amusing, many are creative, and all of them are examples of helping people to perform some task. What makes a job aid a job aid? It presents information that’s external to the performer. It’s used on the job. It’s part of how the performer carries out some task. It enables accomplishment : when a person uses the job aid, he can accomplish some result that he couldn’t otherwise. It reduces the need for memorization. I know, I’m oversimplifying.). MORE >>
- Social media in 1940 LEARNING AND WORKING ON THE WEB | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- Bending The Rules UPSIDE LEARNING BLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- I Unfriended You On Facebook. Are We Still Friends? BRAVE NEW ORG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- Project Spotlight: The Art of a Custom Android App BOTTOM-LINE PERFORMANCE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- Who Trains the Trainers? MINDFLASH | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
- If Coaching is Good, then E-Coaching is. ALLISON ROSSETT | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
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