What’s common to the community is that everyone is developing expertise in some capacity. Contact me if you’re interested and I’ll provide some details. Many of you are either working alone or on very small teams with limited resources. With some creativity, you can do quite a bit. In fact, many of my tips and tricks came from working in a similar situation. It’s amazing what can be done do with a computer and a little duct tape. With that said, working solo has some drawbacks. You really are left to fend for yourself. Or so it seems. And that’s a good thing. Lurking isn’t bad. MORE >>

for Learning, Training and Compliance  Skip to content Home About ← Quiz on Office 365 SharePoint Online SharePoint and Assessments session at European SharePoint Conference in Berlin → Using SharePoint for certification support Posted on April 30, 2011 by johnkleeman I recently attended a Brandon Hall webinar (see here for slides) about social media for learning, where they used three interesting case studies: Chrysler have a social media site, the Chrysler Academy aimed at providing a community for dealer personnel who take certification programs. Bookmark the permalink. MORE >>

have recently been reading Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement at a colleague’s recommendation. Building Expertise deals with learning and training as it needs to be. In this post, I want to examine a few aspects of expertise and what that means for the workers of the 21 st Century. According to Wikipedia (2007) “…an expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a particular area of study.” ~ Building Expertise , Ruth Clark Today, we need experts and in more diverse areas than we even know. MORE >>

Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. And isn’t content sourced from some of the world’s best providers a giant leap in that direction? Universities will finally accept they are service providers. There’s nowhere to hide on the global stage, and cutting-edge expertise will be one of the few aspects that a university will have to distinguish itself from the others. Content providers will charge for assessment. Content providers will wag the long tail. MORE >>

Anyway, this post provides me with an opportunity to clarify my thoughts in preparation for the discussion. The gaps can be filled using social media: the use of social networks to find sources of expertise or offer your own expertise to others content sharing (text, screencasts, podcasts, etc.) I write this as I travel to Birmingham to participate in a panel discussion with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Robin Hoyle on the role of social media in learning. There is no question whatsoever that social media is transforming our personal and business lives. MORE >>