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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

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Most organizations (hopefully) have accepted that learning is crucial to their strategy for growth and performance, and if done right, has a direct impact on the bottom line. However, the flipside is that training and other forms of structured, top down learning—the pillars of organizational learning so far—are tottering.

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Is it important to know instructional design to create SCORM compliant courses?

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The technical aspect is related to the LMS and searchabilty and tracking; however, without a sound design in the creation, the searchability will only remain a function and not serve the purpose it is designed to serve. Thus, each component of a SCORM compliant course must be absolutely self standing and capable of delivering learning value.

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SkillSoft's inGenius: About adding meaningful context.

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One more point that could make organizations happy: it seems that future releases of inGenius will extend support to SkillSoft's SkillPort LMS and other e-learning modules. Source: SkillSoft Raises the Bar for e-Learning with its inGenius Social Learning Layer ) However, there seems to be a dichotomy here.

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Integrating Social Learning in the Workplace

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Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix. The catch is that “ social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. One cannot inset social learning in the training calendar and feel happy about it.

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

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MOOCs, unlike typical on-line courses hosted on corporate LMS''s operate on very different principles. If the three aspects are in place, most individuals will feel the impetus to learn what they need to in order to accomplish their tasks. I have written about these in my earlier posts and won''t delve into the principles here.

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Harvard ManageMentor: Some thoughts in response.

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How well and how will the different learning needs--both individual and group and formal as well as informal--be addressed? How effectively will it bridge the gap between an LMS and a collaboration platform? Can it retain the best of both? Most importantly, and this is a very valid point raised by Paul, how will it foster motivation.

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Instructional Design in the VUCA World

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Training design, therefore, was not only top down but also past focused drawing insights from what worked in the past, getting expert inputs built in, and putting the content together in a linear and logical flow. This would then be packaged (ILT/elearning/blended learning) and delivered to the workforce in need of the said training.