ID Reflections

JULY 28, 2009

I have pasted the para below: “Products typically aren’t designed, built and marketed in a day. Why should training for that product be designed, built and marketed in one day? Preamble The following para from Karl Kapp’s post called Yes, We Should Keep ADDIE, HPT and ISD Models is the trigger for my post.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Authoring Tools Program Rapid eLearning 100

ID Reflections

MAY 11, 2010

The session was on HPT and Social Learning: Organizational Performance in the Cloud b y David Wilkins, VP of Product Marketing at Learn.com. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. I just attended an #ISPI session hosted by the Massachusetts ISPI chapter (@ MASS_ISPI ). so totally worth it.

ISPI 168

ISPI Skype Social Learning Social 168

ID Reflections

MAY 10, 2010

You should have experience in designing curriculum based products. Role: Instructional Designer: Exp: 5-9 yrs Qualification: Any Graduate Job Profile: 1.The The candidate should understand instructional design theories and models and should effectively apply them to develop eLearning content.

Instructional Design 137

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 137

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Current productivity level 3. Desired productivity level 4. This meant deep diving into the organization's existing processes, noting how things are done now and pin-pointing the gaps that can be filled to achieve: 1. Business model 2. Future plans of expansion, new launches, if any 5.

Instructional Design 100

Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Design 100

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Gratton says in the book: "A crucial question for understanding the future of work is predicting what people will actually do with this unprecedented level of connectivity, content and productive possibilities. L&D definitely has a role to play in this metamorphosis albeit in a different avatar.

Network 202

Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

ID Reflections

MAY 16, 2010

The measure of effectiveness and efficiency continues to be "productivity," "ability to adhere to set processes," "ability to create step-lists that can automate essentially creative work." What the business world needs to understand and accept is that the measuring of productivity by hours is a thing of the past. in 8 hours.

Innovation 158

Innovation Outsource Social Media Collaboration 158

ID Reflections

MARCH 19, 2009

An organization’s productivity, survival, profit, its competitive edge, and everything besides depend on the efficacy of its employees for which ongoing training is needed. The problem with learning usually starts when it becomes divorced from fun, when it becomes a chore, a “must do”, a training requirement to be accomplished.

Games 100

Games Toys Training Train 100

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Passion and creativity and not productivity per hour will increasingly become the measure of success. A crucial question for understanding the future of work is predicting what people will actually do with this unprecedented level of connectivity, content and productive possibilities.

Network 100

Network Emergent Collaboration Virtual World 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Short fast messaging among people with common interests and objectives can be a real boon to performance and productivity. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning The notion that news comes in and stories go out — text and photos come in and paper goes out — is an artifact of the means of production and distribution, of course.

Cognitive 144

Cognitive PKM News Tagging 144

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Managers responsible for team productivity and performance define the learning objectives and ask a vendor to create an e-learning course failing to take the opinion of end users (what the managers perceive as difficulties may not be the real/root cause for productivity or quality failures) 2.

Adoption 100

Adoption Adopt Program PPT 100

ID Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

The effectiveness of the mobile device as a PPI (Personal Productivity Improvement) tool The three key functions that emerge as the core of mobile learning then are: CONNECTION, COMMUNICATION, and COLLABORATION. The concept map below depicts mobile affordances at three levels.

Mobile Learning 166

Mobile Learning Mobile iPod Wiki 166

ID Reflections

APRIL 22, 2010

With training being developed in tandem with product development today, scope of work can only be planned for in phases. The scope will change ten times over even as the product development moves from iteration to iteration. Deviation was firmly discouraged; innovation was probably a dirty word. But that was then; this is now!

Agile 105

Agile PKM Training Train 105

ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

The guys I'm working with are the technical sales folk and as we were working out their strategic story they mentioned that the passion that was once there for their products seemed to be waning among some of their technical specialists. Last week I started a new Making Strategies Stick project with a large IT company.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Providers Knowledge Worker Specialist 100

ID Reflections

JULY 15, 2009

To summarize, how does the Performance Support Solutions as we design them facilitate productivity and growth and innovation?

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Support Performance Wiki 100

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

It misallocates power, since promotions often go to the most politically astute rather than to the most prescient or productive."~ During my daily twitter stream reading, I came across this snippet from Stowe Boyd: "A formal hierarchy overweights experience and underweights new thinking , and in doing so perpetuates the past.

Emergent 136

Emergent Agile Culture Diversity Training 136

ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

Strategy as Process, Not Product: The Learning Value Chain What did I learn: The importance of having a strategy in place before jumping into the tactics, and the need for a process before a product development work can start. The activities I have undertaken in the past week in office reinforces this for me.

Social Networks 120

Social Networks KM Social Network Write Blog 120

ID Reflections

JULY 17, 2009

5) What did we do? 5) What did we do?

Project 100

Project Learning Objects Analysis Cognitive 100

ID Reflections

JUNE 29, 2014

And time to production improved. Workplace learning in many places is still struggling to come out of the Industrial Era where workers were trained on best practices, put to work, and their efficiency measured by supervisors. The more of the same task they performed, the more efficient they became. Economy of scale was achieved.

Roles 167

Roles Social Media OER Performance Support 167

ID Reflections

MARCH 12, 2010

While the article is targeted at project managers, anyone who is involved with designing training for a product that is being developed in tandem will understand the challenges such a scenario poses. That difficulty arises from constant change, unclear business objectives, actions of competitors, and other factors.

Project 104

Project Change Consulting Tagging 104

ID Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2012

As Hansen explains in Collaboration ,organizational collaboration is meant to achieve certain goals—whether it is toresolve a tenacious problem, come up with a new product line, or to make abreakthrough discovery. Collaboration in an enterprise is very different from collaboratingwith individuals for one’s personal goals.

Trust 154

Trust Knowledge Social Business 154

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Need for the training to be in place before the product/service/whatever is rolled out to all 3. Timeline is always crunched. The key reasons are: 1. Rapid change of content around which the training is being designed 2. Realization that a training is needed at all comes a little late in the day 4.

Project 100

Project Analysis Agile Report 100

ID Reflections

JULY 30, 2014

Training” as a panacea for all ills – from lack of productivity to lack of motivation, attrition, and lost profits – is losing its power. The shift has happened. The focus has moved from “learning” to “performance”.

Performance Support 167

Performance Support Performance Knowing Doing Gap Coaching 167

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Perceptive leaders keen on facilitating collaboration and helping their teams and organizations move toward a collaborative mode of working, would do well to focus on these aspects.

Knowledge 119

Knowledge iPod Collaboration Network 119

ID Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2009

Once done, the training department proudly ticks this off on their to-do list and waits for different miracles to happen—productivity to increase, quality to improve, turnaround time to lessen, delighted customers to call up…This phase of anticipation is followed by a period of anxious waiting and then disillusion with e-learning per se.

Blended Learning 114

Blended Learning Blended Social Networks Wiki 114

ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

New Twitter tools appear all the time, so search the web for other similar products. When this group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see. Aside: I thought was using Twitter quite effectively…absolutely not said the book (my learning from it rather)!!!

Social Media 166

Social Media Media Wiki Blogging 166

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Creativity: Designing something different than what exists currently, be it business, product or process. This is a marked contrast to the obedience trait. Contrast creativity with intellect. Creativity is less bound to the rigors of logic and proof, more responsive to our individual yearning for things that are new.

Cognitive 165

Cognitive Diversity Training Social Networks Knowledge Worker 165

ID Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2009

My hope is that in the future we get over homophily and we start looking for really productive serendipity…” [link]. But the tools we tend to build to it have us listening to the same voices again and again… Search in the future needs to lead us to people, to places, to voices.

Internet 105

Internet Social Networks Social Media Voice 105

ID Reflections

MARCH 11, 2014

It has partnered with a number of companies to teach courses on the use of their products, at the end of which students receive a certificate of proficiency.” “In “Udacity is now working with industry, where the motivation for completing an online course is directly related to employment.

Diversity Training 219

Diversity Training Micro-Learning Blended Learning Forum 219

ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

While we are wont to blame the management models of the Industrial Era and their continuing prevalence today for the lack of trust and transparency we see in many/most organizations, we have to understand that this model served its purpose when scalable efficiency and productivity were the desired outcome.

Emergent 100

Emergent Organization Diversity Training Community 100

ID Reflections

JULY 16, 2009

Summative evaluation "provides information on the product's efficacy ( it's ability to do what it was designed to do)." If we think back to the ADDIE model, in the second last phase it mentions implementation followed by evaluation. Now, evaluation happens at two levels: Formative and Summative. So, what's the big deal you may ask."If

Adoption 100

Adoption Adopt VOIP SharePoint 100

ID Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2015

While the practice may seem novel, it actually taps into the basic human nature of sharing, learning and collaborating – aspects of humanity that traditional organizations suppressed in the name of efficiency, economy of scale and productivity.

Diversity Training 100

Diversity Training Cognitive PKM Network 100

ID Reflections

MAY 15, 2010

The conversation that ensued provided me with the following insights: The SMEs who had provided the review inputs on the initial storyboards had been unaware of the source of content The storyboards would be reviewed by multiple SMEs since it was important that all aspects of the tasks be covered Each SME had their own area of expertise, and all of (..)

Storyboard 144

Storyboard Course Develop Skype 144

ID Reflections

JULY 5, 2015

They'll not only work with business heads across different verticals and product lines but will liaise with the executive team to define the strategy that will bring about the change. They will have to be the kind of individual who can demonstrate digital leadership in both words and deeds.

Community 100

Community Social Technology Management 100

ID Reflections

APRIL 10, 2015

Collaboration complexity culture future_of_work social learning Workplace Learning'

Social Learning 100

Social Learning Social Integrate Off-shore 100

ID Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2016

I also liken it to developing a service-mindset over a product-mindset. Make it an ongoing effort – Uberization takes away the comfort of creating a one-time product (a course), launching it, and moving on to repeat the process. Build a culture of feedback – Uber relies heavily on the ratings provided by users as well as the drivers.

Organizational Learning 100

Organizational Learning Course Scanning Community 100

ID Reflections

MAY 17, 2010

Other products on the market that enable collaboration at the learning management level will not influence and connect with the learner in a meaningful way. For example, in the Leading and Motivating module, learning happens in the context of the specific learning objective. Our approach will have more impact and drive more engagement.

Enterprise 2.0 104

Enterprise 2.0 Cognitive Collaboration Enterprise 104

ID Reflections

MARCH 31, 2015

L&D and business are trying to define and give a coherent shape to micro-learning because we want to “productize” it. Productization” shouldn’t necessarily imply technology enabled micro-learning bytes. We want to design capsules and bytes of information in various forms like videos, podcasts, text, infographic, etc.

Micro-Learning 100

Micro-Learning Learning Strategy Strategy Learning 100