Clive on Learning

JULY 21, 2011

People use social media to collaborate on tasks, to promote goods and services, to entertain each other, to exchange information and so on. It isn't the only way we learn but it is a highly significant element. Secondly, social media has very many outcomes other than learning.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Just in case you weren’t one of the 500 at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square in London last night, here are the lucky ones for this year: Best use of mobile learning Gold Winner: Learnosity Best use of rapid e-learning content Gold Winner: Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK and Brightwave Silver Winner: Everything Everywhere Bronze Winner: ispeakuspeak (..)

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Just as consistently, it is apparent that they experience a major obstacle to achieving their goals and providing the best possible service to their organisations. You'd like a six-hour e-learning package to train customer service staff to sell over the telephone? A one-hour podcast to teach manual handling skills?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Last week I attended a very enjoyable meeting of the NHS Wales E-Learning Network.One of the presentations was by John Hallam of the NHS Wales Informatics Service.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 2, 2010

And some additional revenue can be generated by bespoke, value-added services (skills audits, evaluation and other consultancy). It's true that this bundle of services will earn the IT companies much less from customer training than they might have achieved in the glory days of the classroom.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

If you're selling production services, you may well differentiate yourself using number 3. Clearly each of these is important to some degree. Which comes out top could depend on your role in the process. If you're a subject expert then obviously your focus is on number 1.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A lack of accountability – the supply and demand of learning services were separated organisationally and in budget terms. A drive for volume rather than value – essentially they were running a training fulfilment service. No ability to gather global management information, including costs.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 15, 2015

We started a new company to look after our new invention, a portfolio of products and services to support it, a new website to show it all off and a free online course for anyone who wants to learn how to use it. We developed a whole new way of designing learning interventions, an approach that we really believe in.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Just as consistently, it is apparent that they experience a major obstacle to achieving their goals and providing the best possible service to their organisations. You'd like a six-hour e-learning package to train customer service staff to sell over the telephone? A one-hour podcast to teach manual handling skills?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

As Daniel Pink describes in Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , three factors stand out: the desire to direct our own lives; the urge to get better and better at something that matters; and the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 27, 2010

However pleased you may be to inform your mother that you're now a Vice President of Employee Talent Exploitation Services, or whatever, you've a long way to go before you can match Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator, who has 1,200 official titles.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2009

services, typically provided free to the user, with the assumption that online advertising would eventually provide the revenue stream to 'monetize' the venture. Products and services can only be provided free of charge if someone other than the user is prepared to foot the bill. services and free software.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2013

As Daniel Pink describes in Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , three factors stand out: the desire to direct our own lives; the urge to get better and better at something that matters; and the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Buyers of e-learning services don't care about the technical difficulties involved in building content that works across all these platforms. Whatever you call them - desktops, laptops, tablets, smart phones, even games consoles - they're all computers and increasingly they work in very similar ways. And, quite frankly, why should they?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

How can we continue to provide a worthwhile service in L&D when we have half the bodies available that we had a year ago? I've added my first thoughts to the list, although really much more consideration is needed. First thought: You can do well, but not by simply doing half as much of the same old thing.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 7, 2014

The design and development of this content is seen like the build up to a product launch, not the unveiling of a new service. Yes, workshops are in perpetual beta. Contrast that with typical self-study e-learning. Project teams are established to get all the work done and a process put in place to ensure a right first time approach.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2009

You'd like a 6-hour e-learning package to train customer service staff to sell over the telephone? If they don't hear this advice, they will assume that the people in l&d are just the builders, not the architects; and, if no-one seems to be offering architectural services, they'll do it themselves.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2014

Time to face up to this problem and invest in some in-service training.' None of this stuff is difficult to put in place but I do understand some teachers and trainers are nervous, principally because they know less about technology than their students do.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

If you're selling design and development services, you may well differentiate yourself using number 3. Clearly each of these is important to some degree. Which comes out top could depend on your role in the process. If you're a subject expert then obviously your focus is number 1.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

then their services are likely to become affordable. You''re paying for a couple of hours at most, rather than a week away and all those expenses. Even if the top expert has an extortionate hourly rate (and if you''re one of them then why not?)

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Hopefully, one of the tools vendors will see the potential and provide this service for you. You need to set up a database and use this to store user responses question by question, so they can be drawn down later for future students to view. This isn’t complicated web programming, but it’s not trivial either.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

They see themselves as service providers, rather than trusted advisers; people who take orders rather than solve problems. Many learning professionals go into a meeting with their client forgetting that they are just that - professionals. They underestimate the value they can add to the relationship.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2011

Julie described a retail case in which an l&d department, by providing an effective service as content curators, came to be seen as much central to the day-to-day life of the business. They encourage people to allocate a limited amount of time each day for their own development. They provide periodic roundups. They tell learning stories.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 15, 2008

A total of 488 responses were received, of which over half worked in private services, 20% worked in public services, 18% worked in manufacturing and production, and 6% worked in voluntary, community and not-for-profit organisations." " "Respondents saw Web 2.0

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

It might seem counter-productive when resources are very tight to offer a more personalised service, but there are ways in which this can be achieved without incurring additional cost: You can start by adopting a more modular architecture for your interventions.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2007

On the other hand, if you do want to do business in China - and I watched a great documentary showing naive Brits getting stuffed trying to do just this thing, without any knowledge of the language or culture - then I'd recommend at least having a go at using this service. feel about it. Are podcasts enough? How valuable is the human element?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

Let’s take Ambient Insight’s impressively titled The US market for self-paced elearning products and services: 2009-2014 forecast and analysis , issued in October 2009. According to this report, the US market for self-paced e-learning products and services (which presumably excludes anything collaborative) reached $16.7 billion.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 6, 2009

ideas to resolve old problems: The creators of a new, web-based service called Rypple claim that it can satisfy Net Geners’ desire for frequent assessments while easing the burden on their supervisors. The service requires employees to establish a network of trusted peers, mentors and managers whose opinions they value.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A true professional is always looking for evidence that will better enable them to provide an effective service to their clients, even when that sometimes means giving up on an idea that you’ve taken to heart. And there are times when it is better to keep these views to yourself. However, working as a professional is not one of those times.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

At the same time, there's plenty of demand for my services as a learning technologist (which is what I've recently decided to call myself) so surely something has to give. I've just made major investments in three new all-consuming hobbies - photography, video and piano playing - and I need time to make sure I get a good return on all three.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 28, 2009

I participated in this video debate , hosted by the British Computer Society, alongside Laura Overton, MD of Towards Maturity and Lars Hyland, Director of Learning Services at Brightwave , all with a strongly pro- e-learning perspective; representing the case for classroom training (while not opposing the idea of e-learning), were Samantha Kinstrey, (..)

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

But this may well be the first time that customers – internal and external – are beginning to question the basis of the service offering. Of course this is not the first time that learning providers have had to struggle with tight market conditions. So what’s changed?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2007

Jane Hart's e-Learning Pick of the Day drew my attention to Articulate Online , a hosted online service offered by Articulate for users who want a low-cost (from $199/month) means to deploy and track their e-learning content. I may be wrong, but that's what it looks like.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I was interested to read the following news in a post by Scott Gavin : Atos, the largest IT services firm in Europe, is going to do away with internal e-mail. Atos CEO Thierry Breton says that only 15 percent of the 200 e-mails his staff receive on average are valuable, and that staff are wasting between 5 and 20 hours a week handling e-mail.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 2, 2009

from 2008 to 2013 for learning technology products and services. At the same time, spending on external services (consultants, content development, etc.) Thanks to Kineo for pointing me to the Market Update recently released by Ambient Insight which forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 16.3%

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Clive on Learning

MAY 26, 2011

This new approach has three essential elements: (1) Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives; (2) Mastery—the urge to get better and better at something that matters; and (3) Purpose—the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2009

I'm not sure that there's any more valuable service that any person can provide. This is where learning and development professionals really come into their own, because the skilful teacher, trainer, coach or facilitator can help the learner to rebuild confidence, expand their horizons and break down these walls for good.

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