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Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment

E-Learning Provocateur

Recently Anne Marie blogged Location and Learning (which I have reproduced here) and she asked me whether or not I consider her central idea an example of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Senior doctors and nurses could participate in the forum to contribute their expert knowledge and lead the students in the right direction.

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The beauty of customer education

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The host Marnina Diprose set the scene aptly: As an expert “we assume that people will just get what we’re saying, without the context of us being in the industry or being educated for multiple years.” It’s about empowering your customers to make informed decisions and deepen their connection to your brand.

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Gift horses

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In The best of both worlds I promoted Design Thinking as a means of using customer insights to inform strategic decision making. Sometimes it takes an expert to show them. Under this paradigm, we are the experts in the science and practice of learning and development, and we consult the business accordingly.

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Crazy Eight

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The foundations of innovation in L&D – The 70:20:10 model informs the building blocks of long-term efficiency, flexibility and creativity. Gift horses – Let’s empower the experts whom we have hired to practise their expertise. Back to the future – Add these museums to your bucket list.

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Double defence

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As what I would term a “trainer”, he was well versed in face-to-face delivery and widely respected in the business as a subject matter expert. The software can crunch the numbers in a heartbeat… it’s up to you to interpret what they mean (critical thinking) and use them to inform a course of action (decision making).

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The right stuff

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Previously I’ve shared my idea for a Training Evaluation Officer – an expert in the science of data analysis, armed with the authority to make it happen. On the contrary, my intention is to expose the business reality for what it is so that we can do something about it. Sue, great minds think alike ;-).

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Let’s get rid of the instructional designers!

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In a corporate organisation, for example, the leaders will typically initiate the instructional design project, an expert designer will then analyse the situation and create a design, and finally, the leaders will review the design and either approve it or reject it. User design fits between the extremes of the user empowerment continuum.