IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Role Of Individuals Acquiring or improving their digital skills can enhance their employability and career prospects. The Role Of Companies Closing the digital skills gap is essential for maintaining a competitive edge. Of course, it shouldn’t all be on the company.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

If we accept that much of our learning happens on the ground and with people then it’s obvious that managers play a crucial role. This might include just-in-time video guides, elearning simulations, communities of practice, group coaching, observation grids, checklists or debriefing sessions.

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Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Let’s look at some practical examples. When an employee needs to build specific technical skills, he or she might be directed to the company’s Community of Practice in that area. Experts can see right away which pieces of microcontent provided are getting the most attention. Forum for Sharing. Sparking Conversation.

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Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

and methods of collaboration (social, communities of practice , etc.). With that backdrop, let's turn our attention to several factors affecting blended learning design decisions. Business purpose - and expected results - can take many shapes and may differ substantially based on the stakeholder's roles.

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PDG

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Key areas like these require more attention within a commercial leadership development program than ever before. Create a community of practice by linking members of the cohort with one another and having mentors encourage communication outside of curriculum activities. New sales leaders takes an active leadership role.

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The Learning Circuits

JUNE 10, 2006

In my role as blogmeister for LCB I've done a lot of reading in the communities of practice literature to gain a better understanding of how online communities work. What can be done to enhance the community? What causes high quality interaction or community disfunction and collapse. So what do you think?

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Learning with e's

APRIL 16, 2014

And yet these theories paid scant attention to the social contexts within which learning occurs. Extensive conversations with others within one''s community of practice are now easier than ever, thanks to social media such as social networks, wikis and blogs.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Fortunately, performance support systems have received more attention in recent years, thanks to a broader trend toward informal learning strategies. These repositories of user instructions are structured around business processes and job roles. Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) take job aids to the next level.

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Obsidian Learning

MARCH 31, 2015

This model consists of four elements: A ttention: getting learners’ attention (obviously), but also sparking curiosity and building engagement. Gaining learner attention begins with making the course visually appealing. R elevance: making connections between the course and the learner’s environment. References. Keller, J.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2013

A Community of Practice (CoP) is a social network of people who identify with one another professionally (e.g. An effective community of practice is like a beehive. For your career, this lead role is high risk/high reward. It doesn’t always come naturally, and managers can get too busy to pay much attention to it.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 28, 2012

Mostly, business as usual at work and crisis situations at home took my time and attention. In today’s non-hierarchical, networked organizations with fluid job roles, conversations over coffee are often how people find out about skills and common passions. I have come back to blogging after a hiatus of almost 5 months.

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Be attentive to social and emotive learning and make them related to achievement and outcomes. Technology: loss of community exposed in Zoom, what is the role of technology and pedagogy? – What is the teacher’s role? Don’t ask ‘what works?’, Engagement = how do you know the students are engaged?

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CLO Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

That was a great opportunity for us to show how strategic we can be, how we can be a good business partner and the direct role we can help play in our organization’s success. CLO: What sort of organizational metrics, analytics and data are especially important for L&D teams to be paying attention to right now?

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. My role was to point out to organizations that they were investing in the wrong place: formal learning. Is that okay? Not any longer. This is a knowledge economy.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

These days a great deal of that guiding is going to be online, using web sites, forums, wikis, blogs and all sorts of communities of practice. If you’re used to being the centre of attention you may find this hard, but I reckon most learning people adapt to this role without too much difficulty.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 16, 2019

I didn’t have the skills for any of the roles in his department, but he connected me with another colleague who took a chance on me.”. He spent a total of seven years at Fidelity in various leadership roles. Within a few months, he was offered a role at Citi to create and implement a sales training program, and he jumped at the chance.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

The role of a CNA, or certified nursing assistant, can be emotionally and physically challenging, and it is a relatively low paying job — industry averages are less than $12 an hour. She made our team think differently about what a CLO’s role is.”. back, and that got their attention,” he said.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. My role was to point out to organizations that they were investing in the wrong place: formal learning. Is that okay? Not any longer. This is a knowledge economy.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

For me, the biggest draw for using videogame mechanics is that there is something immediately engaging that draws your focus and your attention. And here’s a bonus takeaway that doesn’t apply only to game design: Our role in L&D (especially for instructional designers) is to act as consultants to our SMEs and stakeholders.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). They need mechanisms for cooperation and collaboration, not just communication.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 1, 2010

Social Learning Strategies, Models, and Roles (talks about the ECCO model) What did I learn: Discusses the 3 different types of learning-- Codified , Emergent, and Collaborative --and their place/time in an organization and how these map to various interventions.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2012

This is a world of clear expectations and roles, organizational-driven development, structural talent management, competency mapping, Subject Matter Expert-focused (authoritative knowledge), planned innovation (business cases, calculated risks), planned careers, and large structured curricula. Can it work in a increasingly fast-paced world?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles identified six issues which needed attention: The lack of a coherent global learning strategy. The change in culture was emphasised by changing all job titles from ‘training’ to ‘learning’, emphasising the new role as enablers rather than providers. There were no standards and massive duplication of effort. Little was shared.”

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The Learning Circuits

MARCH 3, 2008

One was a Chief Learning Officer panel discussion where it seemed that supporting informal learning or communities of practice was not something they were considering. All of this makes me wonder: Do educational institutions and corporate learning & development departments have responsibility for supporting Long Tail Learning?

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EI Design

AUGUST 19, 2020

These can be easily Personalized (based on the learner’s role, region, proficiency, or interest). One of the measures that will get you learners’ attention is Personalized Learning that offers highly relevant, custom content to them.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 14, 2007

Thursday, June 14, 2007 Defining an e-Learning Strategy: Planning the Kickoff In the spirit of building a Community of Practice -- sharing ideas and processes -- I thought Id try and share what I can of a current project. Can I, um, have your attention, please? Creating Social Presence in Online Classroom (ID.

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. Virtual classrooms and smart-boards are used in a more student-centered way (not putting all the attention to one person up-front=bad). Tony Bates - eLearning Outlook for 2011 1.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 8, 2009

The Various Roles of Instructional Design (work in progress) - Jonathan’s ID , June 5, 2009. Social Learning and Communities of Practice , June 4, 2009. Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Attention , June 23, 2009. The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But it’s more recently come to the attention of the Learning & Development world that there needs to be some coordination and curation to make sure employees have the right resources to help themselves. Provide Supportive Leadership : Leaders play a crucial role in empowering employees to take charge of their learning journey.

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Nick Leffler

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Communities of Practice Need Some Practice — Since learning more about communities of practice in my cMOOC, I’ve encountered them a number of times within the organization I work. In fact, it says they’re now shorter than a gold-fish attention span.

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Convergence Training

APRIL 22, 2019

We talked about access to learning, sharing learning, being a continuous learner, having ownership of your own learning, lifelong learning, about Amy Edmonson and psychological safety… and something you said caught my attention there. So, for example, Maintenance Planners was one community we set up. Get them on board with it.

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Obsidian Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

Context orients learners so they can settle in and pay attention, increases the credibility of the content, clarifies what’s really expected of learners (especially important for behavior change), and boosts retention. A personalized learning map that shows how this piece fits into the curriculum for this learner or role.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Key Social Learning Roles - Daretoshare , April 4, 2010 Premise : Learning communities or networks thrive because its members possess certain skills and capabilities. Community members should be able to perform one or more of the five roles described in the table that follows.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Maybe extroverted learners are especially active in a community of practice and the introverts read along and 'lurk'. Another observation which confirms our findings is that introverts really like collaborative learning, but have a preference for groups of 2-3 with clear roles. But is that true?

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Assign people into roles. Aiding in such things as increasing positive learner attitudes and providing a social role model for interactions. I’ve found these dimensions very usefull in consulting about communities, exploring its value for the organization. They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. Capital Spend.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

While still important, a more critical role to support the convergence of learning assets and workflows requires consideration of robust EPSS technology to play a pivotal role in the very near future. On the other hand, your understanding of the domain, and your role in it, changes over time. vendoranalysis.xls.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2010

Now that I have your attention, please bear with me. Unlike a PLE, an ILE is communal. It exists to support a community of practice, whose members can (or more accurately, should) incorporate it into their own respective PLEs. Rockin’ role. A touch dramatic, isn’t it?

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