From the Coleface

MAY 21, 2012

As new technologies emerge and then go mainstream, this provides L&D practitioners with new channels through which to connect with learners and enable them to improve performance. However on the way, some organisations will get in badly wrong. Step forward Havering Sixth Form College in Hornchurch.

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Mobile Mobile Learning Trust Emergent 100

From the Coleface

MARCH 19, 2010

Have a Plan B – have activities that the rest of the group can engage in if you need to take time out to help one participant. Provide a back channel – expect that some people will be tweeting or texting. Video – this adds rapport at the start, but there is no need to have video on the whole session.

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Tips Director Voice Hosting 100

From the Coleface

MARCH 13, 2012

I have deliberately chosen ‘community’ rather than ‘organisation’ as I think it’s helpful to be able to think more broadly, though I know that most of the time people will be thinking in terms of organisations. I understand social learning as “making use of social media to enhance learning within a community”.

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Social Learning Social Social Media Yammer 100

From the Coleface

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Diversity: a positive celebration of how the differences between people provide new ways of solving problems, understanding market needs and delivering higher quality client service. Provided these sub-groups can continue to work in a co-ordinated way, this seems to be a very sensible structure to help the firm make a difference in diversity.

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Diversity Training Problem Culture Quality 100

From the Coleface

JUNE 24, 2008

L&D’s role will be more to facilitate the process of self-managed learning rather than being the monopolistic provider of training courses. The prevailing culture of web 2.0 is to share knowledge and remove hierarchy.

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Web Community Expertise Culture 100

From the Coleface

DECEMBER 18, 2009

So if in L&D our aim is to enable knowledge workers to become great knowledge workers, we should be looking for ways that we can help achieve great productivity gains. And, are there advisors out there who are so startingly better than their peers that they can command this much of a premium.

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Knowledge Worker Knowledge Metrics Ratio 100

From the Coleface

JANUARY 22, 2014

Unless you can find what you need in 3 or 4 clicks via a portal, it will be faster to use a search term (provided it generates good results). Compliance? And what was the password?…). The search function on most portals/ intranets is not great. Analytics: analyse the data for the search terms that people are using on your intranet.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 24, 2008

Meanwhile some of the more innovative L&D functions are seeing themselves more as provides of methodology and skills rather than publishers of content. The main challenges that need to be overcome: 1. Learner maturity.

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization Wikipedia 100

From the Coleface

OCTOBER 4, 2017

. “the way I learned this was” , “the way that my kids are learning is all video on mobile phones” and what learners want e.g. “we need a different solution for digital natives” A path to greater clarity and real consensus is to provide evidence. Here are three charts and their key implications.

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Learner Business Google Trust 100

From the Coleface

JUNE 10, 2013

Learners have a right to assume that learning material they are being provided with has been checked out so the “facts” spread. Whilst this is a useful metaphor that helps designers strive to make learning interactive, it’s got no basis in science! And, • 90% of what they see, hear, say and do*. e.g. [link].

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Compliance Training Learning Reference Integrate 140