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Why the time is right for self-managed learning

From the Coleface

I worked with external consultants to produce a self-managed learning product which had 3 elements: Personal Development Workbook folder. This would be backed up by ring-fencing time on courses for junior staff to introduce and get learners to start using the product. However the majority of people did not adopt it voluntarily.

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Once, twice, one thousand times a knowledge worker

From the Coleface

Amongst the exhortations for L&D people to be more business savvy which are hard to take issue with, Jay states that we now work in an environment where a “great knowledge worker can be several hundred times as productive as his peer” My first reaction was: how can you believe this is true?

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Professional Services e-learning Forum meeting 14 March

From the Coleface

RIM, makers of Blackbery, claim that staff who have access to services through smart phone spend an extra 25 minutes a day working productively. Some stats re Mobile courtesy of Dom Mason from Line : Cisco research claims that staff spend 25-80% of their time at work away from their desks.

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What can L&D learn from marketing?

From the Coleface

For marketers the brand is almost more important than the product/ service (the sizzle is more important than the sausage). And where two fields of expertise overlap there’s learning to be had… here’s 5 points to start with: . Brand is all important. Hence the brand needs to be nurtured and nurtured consistently.

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2009: the year of bad measurement?

From the Coleface

What people don’t often measure is how long the client took to get its content to an e-learning production ready state. Various e-learning companies use for marketing purposes the metric “days to build e-learning content” This looks good compared to the 8-12 week development cycle that is often quoted.

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Did the e-learning revolution flounder because the trainers carved it up?

From the Coleface

As a face to face trainer by background, I endorse Clive’s view that having a slanging match between e-learning and training is not productive; I’m far more interested in what actually works and gives learners a good experience.

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Why buying e-learning is like buying a fitted kitchen

From the Coleface

My priorities as a budget holder are to control costs which conflicts with the user’s desire to have a highly personalised product which will enable her to learn/cook in a fun and easy manner. However, one thing is that different is that buyers persist in wanting suppliers to quote for e-learning by the hour.