Rob Hubbard

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How to Build Agility into your Learning Design

Rob Hubbard

Firstly investigate the comments more fully and get to the heart of the issue. Then thank your lucky stars that you identified this issue so early in the project – you’ve just saved a load of budget and time – hooray! Thirdly, don’t get disheartened if your design or prototype gets some harsh feedback from users.

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Together We’re Smarter: Tips for Using Digital Learning to Make the Most of Collective Intelligence

Rob Hubbard

Not only will this provide useful feedback but it also prompts a valuable reflection process in the reviewer. If you use a Twitter-like service internally (Yammer for example) host regular chats that focus on different questions or issues. Allow learners to upload or add links to useful resources, web sites and videos.

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What Exactly is Business Agility?

Rob Hubbard

The traditional elearning course is just not enough to address these issues, although it may provide part of the answer. As IBM succinctly put it ‘to act with agility, organisations have to increase communication and collaboration, and improve decision-making processes’.

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New Paradigms

Rob Hubbard

Provided it functionally does what it’s supposed to, whether or not it is effective depends on how it is used and for what purpose. The issue is that, too often, old paradigms are applied thoughtlessly to new technology. I don’t think there is such a thing as bad technology.

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Why Use Video for Learning?

Rob Hubbard

Providing tips from subject matter experts. Providing strategic messages from senior managers. Using as a ‘spot the issue’ exercise. Here are a few ideas on how video could be used for learning purposes: Guided tours of new products , equipment or facilities. Building branching video scenarios.

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How interactive should your elearning be?

Rob Hubbard

But what if there is a need to just impart information, with compliance issues for example? Well you could create a resources hub or section and provide the detail as documents that learners can access in their own time and at the point of need. Is there a place for click-to-continue elearning?

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Case Study: Waterstones Academy – Goal-Based Learning for Booksellers

Rob Hubbard

They immediately saw the potential in the approach to solve their business issue of how best to train all their Booksellers on selling the Kindle range. Many retailers wanting to provide product training would opt for face-to-face training, or elearning courseware plus an LMS. So what did they think?