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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Learning or professional communities are “healthy” and beneficial to the organization when its members are intrinsically motivated to participate and contribute. if you do this then you get that”) will work for tasks that are mechanical, routine, rule-based, and that are organized around a clear destination or outcome. A “smarter” and more “connected” individual is a valuable asset to most organizations. Members of a learning community must have a desire to network, collaborate, and share information or the community will not thrive and will not drive business value. What will intrinsically
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
multiversity is a learning organization built on a series of multiples: serving multiple needs and goals, offering multiple curricula, serving multiple career paths and using multiple delivery methods and technologies. In a recent CLO article written by Craig Mindrum, it is said that the most prevalent model for adult education is the corporate university – in terms of practical educational effectiveness. The article suggests that the corporate university has moved streets ahead of the traditional university.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Why is it so difficult to quickly find someone in my organization to answer a pressing question, provide advice about a procedure, explain how to use some software, or tell me where to find an expert, course, or document?
know there are in-house experts in my organization. What can my organization do to help me connect to and leverage these experts more I rely on my network to connect me to other people and information because I cannot know and will not try to know everything.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals and organizations.
I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system. We do not want to take a traditional ‘Learning Management System” appraoch and treat networked learning as formal training.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
8221; For many organizations, the economic downturn is having a noticeably negative effect on workforce productivity, engagement and performance. Job Read the article (by clicking on the URL above) to see how Social Learning will generate better performance from the workforce, a business case from BT, and an approach for bringing Social Learning to your organization.
...Tags: The Business Case for Social Learning
Have you heard of the “capability recession?”
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
I created this 16 minute social learning primer (podcast) to address some of the frequently asked questions and concerns about social learning, and to share some of my insights and suggestions gained from my experience helping client organizations with their social learning agendas.
I hope you find this primer useful. Please
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Organizations are either actively considering or have recently started deploying enterprise social media to enable social learning. Such Such companies have come to realize that key to their success are productive and vibrant learning communities.
How healthy are your learning communities……really? Old ways of measuring
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Dare2Share allows BT employees to learn from each other by rapidly capturing and spreading learning throughout the organization in the form of podcasts, discussion threads, blogs, RSS feeds and other traditional knowledge assets (documents, courses and portals).
Follow this link to read about BT’s experience with social learning. Yours truly Yours truly was involved with this project - read my quote in the case study. Peter
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Since 1995, SyberWorks has developed and delivered unique and economical solutions to create, manage, measure, and improve e-Learning programs at companies and organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and around the world.
Here is the press release on the article: SyberWorks Media Center Presents a New Article: “AICC and the LMS”
The article, “AICC and the LMS” , can be found in the SyberWorks Media Center .
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
They ask what the technology could do and how they could use it in their organization. For social technologies like elgg to work in an organization, i believe you need to look beyond the technology and develop a clear concept of the organization’s knowledge processes and how you would think the technology could support those processes. After being “a friend” and lurking for a while, i became a full (paying) member of the CP Square (CP2) community. CP Square is a community of practice about communities of practice.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
A unified support function, focused on really serving workers and helping them grow, could significantly reduce the 77% of CLO Magazine survey respondents who feel that people in their organization are not growing fast enough to keep up with the business.
We’ve been discussing the blurring of lines between traditional organizational departments at the Internet Time Alliance and the general consensus is that any organizational change, especially using social computing, needs to look at the whole of the organization and not just the parts. Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out:
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Monday, November 30, 2009
During all of these tasks, you will be organizing content at a high level to give it a meaningful structure. Assuming that you’ve sufficiently wrapped your mind around the content, use the list below to find the most effective strategy for organizing it. The content on this page is organized alphabetically.
People who create eLearning get involved in many types of content development tasks. In addition to researching and developing content for courses, you may find yourself creating training manuals for webinars or the classroom, writing web copy, making reference
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Many organizations have separate departments in these (and other) disciplines, all sharing the mission of impacting organizational performance.
Bringing these organizations all under one roof could accelerate this cross fertilization of ideas, result in innovative new approaches and reduce the redundancy and confusion that exists for line managers. A reasonably neutral label for this organization might be “Organization In a blog post while back i mentioned it might be nice to see the training function morph into something more akin to an organizational effectiveness unit in the next ten years.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Communities of living organisms that interact dynamically with their environment. Later she says, “The ecosystem is a combination of the organisms and the environment.” KEY: Living organisms; environment; balance. Unlike a traditional blended learning environment where (WARNING - this is an unusually long post for me. And, as Mark Oehlert pointed out recently, I echo Mark Twain ’s quote, “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
A post on e-Learning Guild’s group on LinkedIn asked, “In What Ways Do Organizations Get eLearning Wrong?” There are many organizations that get it right, but many get it wrong too. Here are my thoughts on pitfalls organizations must avoid.
8221; This question really got me thinking. Not knowing the difference between an e-learning designer and an e-learning developer.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Originally, as many of us remember, organizations started repurposing all their programs and developed linear, formal training programs for the web. In 2001 we had a global recession, which even further accelerated the transition as organizations tried to drastically reduce instructor-led training to save money. Organizations realized that "e-learning" was not as all-powerful as we once imagined, and the concepts Over the last year or so we have talked with hundreds of companies about their desire to transform their corporate training programs to take advantage of social networking, knowledge management, communities of practice, and better models of blended learning.
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