No matter where I go, people ask me the same questions everywhere: – “How do we scale agility to large organizations?” ” – “How do we stay agile when we’re growing very fast?” The world saw little resistance to change when it came to the adoption of the internet, smartphones, Facebook, and hipster coffee bars. The problem is, most organizational change is not fun. MORE

In other words, learning needs to go Agile. So how do Training Vendors help training organizations go agile: they adopt Agile Development. Agile Development is an approach where vendors deliver very fast, iterative product development through close collaboration with its user base (i.e. According to McKinsey & Company : “ This agility can deliver new systems and capabilities in a matter of weeks or months instead of years. If response is slow, same problem. MORE

One session I attended at a learning week event at LinkedIn was about how teams can use an agile development process and they shared their own team’s experience as an example. The key is to make sure cohorts have a common goal or a real business problem to solve. Tech talks are quite common among tech companies like Facebook, Yahoo! and Google because engineers love to share what they know with their peers. MORE

Agility is what drives enterprises today. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people,” avers Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In product manufacturing too, VR/AR can enable engineers to test scenarios and designs before the products are made, driving productivity and cutting down on the cost of wasted materials!” Sensory, stimulating, and sticky – that’s how learners would want their learning to be. MORE

These tips were different from past surveys in one significant way: Many of them contain detailed ActionScript code that will help you solve common problems. In Search of Learning Agility - eLearning Guild This publication deviates from the typical eLearning Guild eBook. The authors, Clark and Gottfredson, sketch three distinct stages of learning agility: 1.0, MORE

It’s more engaging than a training manual, but sharing it on your LMS (or worse, on YouTube) can create problems. The problem is this: Not everyone is ready for change, and not every organization is ready for change either. Workforce capabilities directly impact competitive ability, strategic execution, critical role and leadership pipelines, organizational agility and more. " Cherry, sweet cherry, red, fruit " by Hans Braxmeier is Public Domain. MORE

Just look at the movie recommendations you get on Netflix based on what you have already watched, book suggestions after you’ve purchased on Amazon, or adds popping up in your Facebook feed after you have searched an overseas holiday or new car. YouTube is one of the most used search engines for people to learn something. Encourage people to find information to solve the problems. One size doesn’t fit all. We need to be able to personalise the learning experience for all. MORE

Automatic online updates make ti practical to fix mistakes, handle usability problems and add new features on a regular basis. If you find a problem, it can be remedied quite painlessly just as soon as you have a fix. Why is a more agile model desirable? The development of the Google search engine, Facebook or iTunes are not projects, they are never-ending quests for perfection. Some work has to be right first time. Let's take a feature film for example. MORE

Part of the problem though is that there is a lot of information out there, some of it erroneous in nature and honestly, equally confusing. The problem was just that there was no *one* way to do it. IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — an international, industry standards body. You can be more agile and ad-hoc with your learning approach and your content strategy. For example, Facebook’s News Feed is an activity stream. MORE

With things changing faster, competitors able to be more nimble, and customers getting more ‘clued in’, companies will have to be more flexible and able to adapt faster, which requires agility. Clark: I’m a strong believer in social constructivist pedagogies, e.g. problem-based and service learning, whereby a curriculum is activity, not content. People worry about tools, security, screen size, and more, yet there are solutions to all these problems. MORE

Not only are the business problems increasing in complexity, but the new generation has also introduced a new dynamic. We now have multi-device capabilities, social networking, embedded performance support systems, virtual reality, dynamic portals, xAPI analytics, gaming, powerful search engines, and (finally) really good user-generated content! As the decade progressed, Google opened the web’s potential and something called Facebook had changed the way this generation interacted. MORE

Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company say collaboration and collective intelligence are the engines of innovation. New levels of business agility and faster cycle times. Many companies rely on Facebook, Twitter, and other consumer applications to connect their people. Favoriting” popular content so the cream can rise to the top caught on after Facebook made it de rigeur. Solve nagging problems. What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. MORE

But the problem is more than just the headset, rather it getting buy-in from the C-level folks that this is a must for your budget, especially when you just received the green light to drop 50K on a new LMS. Agile in their approach. Back in the day, people wanted their LMS to look like a search engine. Let’s move on from Facebook already. A lot is coming in 2019, expanding the power of my learning system search engine and comparison platform. MORE

Agility is what drives enterprises today. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people,” avers Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In product manufacturing too, VR/AR can enable engineers to test scenarios and designs before the products are made, driving productivity and cutting down on the cost of wasted materials!” Sensory, stimulating, and sticky – that’s how learners would want their learning to be. MORE

With things changing faster, competitors able to be more nimble, and customers getting more ‘clued in’, companies will have to be more flexible and able to adapt faster, which requires agility. Clark: I’m a strong believer in social constructivist pedagogies, e.g. problem-based and service learning, whereby a curriculum is activity, not content. People worry about tools, security, screen size, and more, yet there are solutions to all these problems. MORE

Facebook has more than 400 million active users and 50% of those active users log in every day and 35 million of those users update their status daily. Facebook Press Room. Agility and Autonomy - Learning and Working on the Web , April 12, 2010 for social learning to be successfully implemented in an organisation it is not just about adding in the new tools or platforms but also about acquiring a new mindset and new skillset for both learning professionals and individuals. MORE

But find ways of getting things that are simpler and graphically less complex, that don’t require the same kind of cost, so that they can be done more agilely. I’ve seen that you’ve previously talked about the power of songs in the workplace, and we’ve certainly got a couple of teammates at Growth Engineering who love a good sing-song. To break down the barriers to find whether there’s anyone out there who’s had that same problem. Facebook spent $3 billion for Oculus. MORE