These discussions center on what requirements should go into an LMS RFP and more broadly how the LMS should really be integrated into the organization. Initially, the conversation was about having learning content appear on the enterprise portal. It's certainly better than putting a static link to your LMS somewhere on the corporate portal / intranet. But this only scratches the surface of what it means to integrate the Learning Management System (LMS) into the systems that people use day-to-day in an enterprise. I've had a similar discussion several times over the past few months.

If we’ve learned nothing else in recent years, we’ve learned that improving performance through learning is more effective the more it is integrated with real work.  Learning pundits encourage the “integration of learning and work” but don’t always offer practical strategies that busy learning professionals can to use to make it happen.  If your going to integrate learning The goal of learning in the workplace is performance–individual and organizational.  How can we begin to truly reduce the number courses and catalogs in enterprise training

Tags: integrated develpment environment my top 25 e-learning blogs instructional design usability guidelines UA As discussed in yesterday's post, here are my Top 25 blogs for 2008. Hopefully there's enough detail, laid out in a usable fashion, to encourage you to try out a few of the links. Blog... Blog... The

Integration Add-ons and Your Browser Sidebar Seven Easy Ways to Integrate Your Google Apps ...Tags: The information you keep in Google apps like Gmail, GCal, Reader, and Voice Voice doesn't have to live in jsut one place. Gina Tripani has a blog posting in Lifehacker today that describes 7 easy - but non-obvious

Tom Gram discusses the integration of learning and work (my professional passion) and gives a list of ten strategies for integration, of which three are discussed in detail in Part 1 (I’m already looking forward to Part 2): That shows how relevant training is to the integration of working & learning and something to consider at the dawn of the learning age . 1. Understand the job 2.

This past month, I had an opportunity to do an assessment at a strategic level that called for an integration of performance consulting, Learning Environment Design , and good old-fashioned needs assessment.  While I had conceptualized an integrated approach to assessment when I taught a design course last term, this was the first chance I had to really test it out.  My goal was to recommend a learning strategy for strengthening a desired skill set across several roles in our organization.  I’m pleased with how it went, so I thought I’d share the approach with those

In my last post I listed ten strategies for integrating learning with work. 10 STRATEGIES FOR INTEGRATING LEARNING AND WORK However, from the perspective of integrating learning and work, social media is a technical platform (like none before it) for sharing, collaborating and communicating while work is being accomplished.  I think the convergence They are a combination of concepts and methods that build knowledge and bring learning into day to day activities and workflow. I

A typical scenario for creating an elearning course with Captivate is to create multiple 5-10 min modules of Captivate movies that are integrated using the aggregator or the multi-sco packager or by creating your own navigation shell using Flash Pro. Today, I’ll show you another option that is available for creating a course with multiple modules. The Adobe eLearning Suite integrates Adobe Captivate and Adobe Acrobat Pro to help you create a PDF portfolio containing your Captivate movies, complete with rich navigation. You can easily publish these n the web or distribute it via email.

I mentioned in my post 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? that we are seeing more and more about Add-ins & Mashups as a means to build richer learning experiences. I particularly cited a DevLearn demo of twitter being embedded inside Captivate as the basis of a social learning experience. They’ve posted on the Adobe Captivate blog - Collaborative learning using Captivate and Twitter .

This post continues the Ten Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series.   Last post I discussed communities of practice and social media, two strategies focused on collaboration and networks where learning and knowledge are a natural byproduct.  10 STRATEGIES FOR INTEGRATING LEARNING AND WORK Action This post shifts focus to how structured problem solving and Action Learning approaches can intimately wed learning with working.   I’ll discuss strategies 6 and 7 from the list.