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Selling your services by the hour

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recommending products / vendors? You have specialist help to offer. You need specialist help to get your own work done. proposing a blended solution? scripting a narration? designing a simple scenario? preparing a quiz? post-producing a podcast or video? professionalising a slide show?

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Is e-learning something I can do?

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Hard experience has taught me that only career specialists (in other words those who do this for a living) should go near the development of high-end e-learning content. If that doesn’t sound like you, keep clear and concentrate instead on working productively with those who are better suited to the job than you are.

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MEDIC: Five benefits we’d all like to experience

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John is a specialist in specifying and tracking the benefits from new IT systems (a role that's particularly important given the poor track record of major IT projects in the UK public sector). In learning terms, benefits could include cost savings, productivity gains and so on - see MEDIC below.

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Shift represents a new commercial model for authoring software

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" Ecosystem or not, the tool is one of a number of web-based authoring solutions allowing authors to work on their projects anywhere they can obtain an internet connection and in collaboration with any number of other specialists and stakeholders. They are also demonstrating a great deal of confidence in their product.

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A new vision for IT customer training

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A month back I had the fortune of being asked to present to CEdMA, an association of senior training managers in large IT companies who have the responsibility for training up their organisations’ customers in their various products. Specialist topics can be covered by webinars. Customers are demanding more online delivery.

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Agile e-learning

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Organisations need agility to respond sensitively to each unique situation, making use of professional specialist help wherever it can be usefully applied, balancing different content forms within blended solutions, and using the right tools for each job.

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Digital learning content does not have to mean CBT

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This is no more than a natural evolution from their traditional responsibility for the production of PowerPoint slides and handouts which support most classroom events. While some trainers will have the aptitudes and interests which will help them to excel in this area, in most cases this will remain a job for specialists.