ID Reflections

APRIL 27, 2010

eLearning Technology , while applauding the effort SkillSoft is making to integrate Social Learning, does criticize the fact that they are tying this to SkillSoft and to books as learning resources. Collaborative features/informal learning features and are essentially bottom up.

SkillSoft 100

SkillSoft Compliance Training SkillPort Enterprise 2.0 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Shorter and shorter production cycles, demanding and informed customers, and increasingly interconnected and complex work require workers who are agile and adept at picking up new skills, are willing to experiment, and can learn quickly from failures. How can facilitating collaboration help the organization?

Collaboration 163

Collaboration Organization Diversity Training Harbinger 163

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

How do we help organizations see that social and informal learning is not a new and fancy way to learn but an essential requirement in a complex, rapidly changing, and uber connected world? Working adults will make the best use of all available resources to connect, collaborate, cooperate and build communities of practices.

Network 202

Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Before I plunge into the heart of my analysis and discussion, I want to share a couple of snippets on Networked Learning from Wikipedia. ( [link] Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another''s learning.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Diversity Training Forum Network 100

ID Reflections

MAY 16, 2010

It was a manager's haven; it was all about managing cost, resources, and time effectively. The changing face of L&D and training What worked in a process driven, sane world won't work in a world hit by the tsunami of information, social media, hyperlinks, user-generated content, automation and outsourcing, and many more similar evils.

Innovation 158

Innovation Outsource Social Media Collaboration 158

ID Reflections

JUNE 30, 2014

The evolving knowledge base of the organization becomes explicit enabling faster learning, reducing loss of critical information and fostering an environment of continuous learning. A short webinar to discuss a case study or any other learning resource will not only lead to deeper learning but also foster the skills of critical thinking.

Performance Support 227

Performance Support Support Performance Case Study 227

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

At the organizational level, … effective companies function as communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.” Today in the face of rapid change and technological evolution, this same model is failing us; it’s becoming a roadblock to seamless collaboration and flow of information.

Emergent 100

Emergent Organization Diversity Training Community 100

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Setting the Context Here are two definitions from Wikipedia that captures the essence of Networked Learning: Networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another''s learning. The central term in this definition is connections.

Network 100

Network Emergent Collaboration Virtual World 100

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Once the steering elements have been addressed, then look at the “Enabling Elements” – Management (again), Design, Resources and Support. They are conditioned to respect the language of productivity, efficiency, resource management, output, and the like.

Organization 136

Organization Harassment Training Performance Support Mentoring 136

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

I just finished reading Harold Jarche’s post: Seek, Sense, Share In the post, he talks about how seeking information, then applying our personal sense-making filters to it, and finally sharing it helps us to see the interconnections, patterns and the larger whole. Responses to queries 3.

Tools 104

Tools Evernote Delicious Wiki 104

ID Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Imagine an organization whose boundaries are porous, giving it the capacity to fluidly exchange information with its ecosystem. We are well aware that complexity cannot be tackled through planning, controlling, resource management, and other known and popularized forms of management and leadership.

Community 110

Community Organization Emergent Synchronous 110

ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

2) Develop a plan for solving the problem, based on company culture, existing materials, resources, budget, stakeholder and SME involvement, vendor solutions and a host of other variables. Gather and compile this information for reporting purposes. Talk to stakeholders and SMEs, gather and assemble data and report back the findings.

Consulting 141

Consulting Social Networks LinkedIn Discussion 141

ID Reflections

MAY 15, 2010

Make sure you get access to the right people and resources. Disregarding the power of questions or forgetting to raise them and get them clarified can often make or break a course or render it ineffective. There’s a lot that goes into building a course. Who can review the content? Who can provide assets like logos, images, and documentation?

Storyboard 144

Storyboard Course Develop Skype 144

ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

Uber taps into existing resources providing people – both the suppliers and the buyers – with a platform to connect. However, curation requires an even greater effort at creativity and an ability to connect the dots, make sense of disparate information, and pull these together to form a cohesive whole.

Organizational Learning 100

Organizational Learning Course Scanning Community 100

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

ned set of resources.” Enough resources to do the job but not so many that the team loses its resourcefulness. How leaders allocate resources—are they investing in the collaboration capability? Most managers and management make the mistake of conflating information with involvement.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Knowledge Worker Network Leadership 100

ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

@ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis, which I have referred to: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Design Micro-Learning Theory 100

ID Reflections

MAY 17, 2010

Learning mix in the workplace Harvard Business Publishing is releasing the next version of Harvard ManageMentor , their "online resource for business essentials". In this era of information explosion, context-less information is just data that does not foster or drive decision-making abilities. What Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise 2.0 104

Enterprise 2.0 Cognitive Collaboration Enterprise 104

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

The premise of this post is that when an organization makes a conscious effort to bring in social collaboration and support their formal learning endeavors with more informal and collaborative sharing, it usually begins with the introduction of an enterprise collaboration platform. Mapping the training to typical use cases is also important.

Community 172

Community Roles Management Screencast 172

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Social media and open resources like MOOCs will foster an era of self-driven learners who know what they need, where to find it and take their pick. The content can be in the form of short capsules of learning, curated articles, links to interesting resources, discussions on the forum, blogs and micro-content from other users.

PKM 100

PKM Diversity Training Community Communities of Practice 100

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2014

While each organization will have its own requirement, L&D can do some of the following to foster the skills: Ensure there is a robust enterprise collaboration platform in place (if not, make a strong case for one to stakeholders) F acilitate a culture/practice of working aloud (micro-blogs, blogs, podcasts, videos, etc.)

Skills 145

Skills Cognitive Performance Support Culture 145

ID Reflections

JULY 3, 2014

In the process of digging deeper, it is entirely possible to uncover information that the organization was unaware of and which could be a major cause of the issue being faced today. Provide different ways to acquire the skills – short courses, job aids, reference resources, links to external content, connect with experts, and so on.

Compliance Training 132

Compliance Training Slideshare Conversation Twitter 132

ID Reflections

JUNE 26, 2014

I love this definition of MOOCs by Ignatia Inge deWaard in her e-book, MOOC Yourself: “A MOOC is a non-defined pedagogical format to organize learning /teaching/training on a specific topic in an informal, online, and collaborative way.” The base content is just a starting point for any MOOC.

Diversity Training 271

Diversity Training OCW Online Course 271

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Social media and open resources like MOOCs will foster an era of self-driven learners who know what they need, where to find it and take their pick. The learners will come with a consumer mindset--valuing what they need, and not what is thrust on them. future_of_work L&D social learning Workplace Learning'

Change 227

Change Diversity Training Cloud Computing IBM 227

ID Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2015

They can probably learn via more informal and social means—both synchronous and asynchronous. There was no scope to add context or additional information without up-hauling the entire course. What is the value proposition of a MOOC in workplace learning? Why should an organization go the MOOC way?

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Compliance Training Synchronous Forum 100

ID Reflections

MARCH 6, 2015

Wikipedia ([link] That''s a bit of a mouthful but aptly captures the skills we need to make sense of the information bombarding us today, to take decisions in the face of flux and ambiguity, to embrace change with equanimity. Gone are the days of limited information vetted and handed down by designated experts.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Network Skills PKM 100

ID Reflections

MARCH 1, 2012

And the overarching themes are: Informal Learning, Communities of Practice,Connectivism Personal Learning Environments, Open Distributed Learning, Net Pedagogy, Learning “Design” in a2.0 The conference also has speakers like Grainne Conole , Martin Weller , Les Foltos, DouglasLynch and others.

Education 161

Education OER Communities of Practice Conference 161