Learning Culture Learning On-Demand Learning Programs cisco citrix e-learning facebook linkedin microsoft Plateau Saba sun taleo we-learning webe The corporate training industry is undergoing some major changes.  Over Over last few months we have been involved in many discussions with organizations about the tremendous needs to build, manage, and... Bersin Bersin

Via a tweet by @trishuhl I came upon a nice case study from Bersin & Associates on social learning at Sun Microsystems. It is a description of the “ Sun Learning eXchange “. This is a sort of Youtube site which Sun employees can use to exchange content. What I like about the project/ the case study is that it started from a real world business/ learning problem instead of just mere looking how to use popular webtools. The first business problem lies within the cut back in budget for the Sun learning department (SLS).

If you are looking for a real-world example of what's possible when a corporate learning function decides to make formalizing informal learning a centerpiece of its strategy, look no further than Sun Microsystems . At Sun, the sales training group does not have sufficient budget or hours to meet all the training needs of sales professionals. At The training group also wants to make sure sales teams have selling tools at their fingertips with minimal clicks and support in the field, and by making it possible for subject matter experts to share valuable

How much does it cost to purchase an iPod Touch? $180. 180. Imagine what you can do providing learning through on-the-need basis. See the YouTube video. Amazing! The technology is phenomenal.

Brandon Carson , the facilitator from Sun Microsystems, gets it from Google. We need to open it up to forge relationships. 37% of the worlds information is sitting on Sun product. Present Sun as a cool place to work It is public ( http://learning.sun.com/newhire ) - the sun wanted How do people get information? Most people, however, go to peers.

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. Not only are Sun and ILA developing the sort of learning environments that I expect to dominate the future, they are laying the groundwork for something much larger: the true integration of learning and work. College kids are different these days. Awash in multiple distractions, most have the attention spans of gnats.

I think IBM's policy is a pretty good starting point: IBM Social Computing Guidelines Other company policies or discussions of guidelines I've seen around blogging, social media, web 2.0: Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy Thomas Nelson Blogging Guidelines Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy Hill & Knowlton Blogging policies and guidelines Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines BBC Blog Guidelines Sun's Policy on Public Discourse Groove What Should Your Corporate Policy Be On Blogs? One of the barriers commonly cited during my presentations around eLearning 2.0 (use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools.

Here’s a useful visual demo of how Sun delivers technical and sales training in small, searchable units that can be viewed at the moment of need.   The example comes from the Sun Learning Exchange , a YouTube like site for Sun employees to record, post, and share videos, slide sets and documents. It’s an interesting experiment in informal learning at Sun. ...Tags: Mobile phones and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) now out number computers 3 to 1.  With such a ubiquitous tool the temptation to create mobile learning content is difficult to deny.

YouTube - videos on everything under the sun YouTube EDU - aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the US. Note: Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about: 5min Life Videopedia - instructional and how-to videos Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars

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