We do not want to take a traditional ‘Learning Management System” appraoch and treat networked learning as formal training. I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system.  There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals and organizations.

A company or person that sells “course or module” development, books, and “training” courses might not like knowing that their “competition” is giving “it” away for free.  People People who have the words “learning and development” or “training” in their job title might not like knowing that someone else is willing to do “the job” for free.  Heads What would you say if I told you that I know where you can find some FREE , HIGH QUALITY , and REUSABLE courses, modules, and lesson plans?  I I guess

Old ways of measuring the productivity and success of a learning community were appropriate for traditional, linear kinds of training, but not for more advanced, collaborative (or social) learning environments. Organizations are either actively considering or have recently started deploying enterprise social media to enable social learning.  Such Such companies have come to realize that key to their success are productive and vibrant learning communities.

Corporate learning has not changed much since the days when it was first delivered.   Still, we often see learners sitting in classrooms that are arranged so that all of the eyes face towards the front of the room – towards the expert who knows everything we need to know.   The designated trainers deliver the course content according to the time allotments and sequence prescribed by the course agenda.   There are too few opportunities for the learners to network, discuss, and collaborate.   The learners remember very little and do not often believe that the training was too relevant to the

How can we incorporate training into workplaces in ways that support this new type of worker? use virtual training environments communicate better with business leaders about the returns gained from training Continued organisational change is producing flatter, more flexible and responsive organisations with work cultures that support employees to be more autonomous, innovative and more customer-focused than in the past.   Workers now require a wider range of capabilities, skills and technical know-how to operate in these new environments.  How

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This article is a guest post by Mary Polley-Berte, Director of Customer Support & Training, SyberWorks, Inc. Learning to use web conferencing technology is pretty easy, but there is a lot more to training via web conference than just putting on a headset, dialing up an audio-conferencing bridge, and logging onto the application. This article offers some helpful tips specifically targeted to web conference training: Thanks, Mary! Companies and organizations today use web conferencing in many aspects of their organizations-to conduct meetings, collaborate on projects,

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Any kind of training that requires significant upfront effort is going to come under increasing fire. Corporate Training Methods But what about in corporate training? Here's the graphs for corporate (non-Government, non-Education) training methods: Surprisingly little difference between Corporate and Overall in terms of the training method trends. Steve Wexler who runs eLearningGuild research has been producing some really interesting information recently. All of the data comes from surveys to the eLearningGuild membership (which is more than 30,000)

Jay Cross - father of the Informal Learning Flow has been doing some great writing recently that look at the future of corporate training. His recent posts make me really think (that's good) but also make me wonder ... How many people really have the opportunity to pursue the Future of Corporate Training? More on this below ... In fact, in eLearning Defined , Online Training vs eLearning - Jay and I somewhat agree that But first some context. Courseware and Broader eLearning Jay's post eLearning is not the Answer : Corporations are flocking to eLearning for all the wrong reasons.