It’s important to provide your team with a map of here is how we used to do this, this is how we’re going to do it now. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. Home > Executive Perspective > How not to adopt an LCMS How not to adopt an LCMS June 2nd, 2009 Goto comments Leave a comment As the economy has forced organizations to do more with less, we’re seeing more and more interest in LCMS systems. The times of getting through the inherent inefficiencies of the old approach of having multiple copies of instructor guides, student guides, slide decks and online courses are gone. MORE >>

In a recent blog post by Bersin & Associates, Josh Bersin provides a great description of how Agile applies to training: “Agile is also built on the understanding that people learn in small chunks – so while it may in fact take a year or two to build a highly complex website, no person needs to try to understand the entire engineering program in advance. […] Daily work becomes a part of a bigger project in a continuous, dynamic process.”. Part one of this series provides a simple overview of what Agile is. In other words, learning needs to go Agile. Keep the team small. MORE >>

40% of webinar attendees who answered this question told us, in one way or another, that we needed to provide more structure to the event. Structure provides a template for how to best convey knowledge in an informal setting: Wikipedia characterizes informal learning as follows: It does not necessarily follow a specified curriculum and is not often professionally organized but rather originates accidentally, sporadically, in association with certain occasions, from changing practical requirements. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. But as we all know, learning is evolving. MORE >>

Rather, it’s the delivery of this formal content that will change – in the form of less courseware and more guided delivery at the point-of-performance, with social media platforms providing a critical publishing channel. How User Generated Content Can Make its Way into Formal Learning: Integrate UGC into formal learning content management: Feedback from forums and content from blogs and/or wikis are examples of valuable information that can be pulled or linked into learning content repositories to provide a unified view of organizational and social content. This is true. MORE >>

On what tablet applications should provide learners, & what that means for ‘learning designers’: We need to be able to allow our content agility.  Last month Xyleme had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with none other than elearning luminary Elliott Masie on “iPad, a Game Changer for Blended Learning”. During this webinar event Elliott Masie shared valuable insights on how the iPad is transforming learning within organizations, and why organizations need to offer training on the iPad. It’s a game changer in that sense. They [the USDOD] want to be more agile.  MORE >>