Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2015

New post Oil and Gas downsizing: Training on a budget on Obsidian Learning. The price of oil has been down for the past year or so, and economists can’t predict when it will come back up. While everybody likes a low price at the pump, those of us in oil and gas know only too well how important robust oil prices are to the health of our industry. If you work in oil and gas, you’ve probably seen the effects of low oil prices in your own workplace.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Photograph from Pexels One of the most valuable properties in any organisation is intellectual capital - the intangible value of a business generated by its people. In the past, budgets were set aside for corporate training, and in a traditional sense this was conducted in specific areas designated for this purpose - usually a training room or computer suite. Ambient learning also relates to people adapting their technologies and environments to suit their working practices.

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E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The topic of the evening was Where is L&D Heading? and some questions were posted through by the attendees ahead of time, while others emerged through the discourse. Here is an overview of my answers, plus elaborations and suggestions for further reading, for each of the questions that was (and was not) asked. Is the race to the bottom on time and price for degrees affecting employers’ perceptions of universities? The moot point of MOOCs.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 2, 2011

We’ve all seen it with our own eyes: when a company hits hard times, its training budget is one of the first casualties. To counter-act that perception, the L&D team must do a better job of demonstrating its worth to the business in terms of performance and, ultimately, profit. However in the back of my mind I was empathising with the poor bunnies who are stuck now with slashed training budgets. Of course the remedy is simple: spend less.

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Obsidian Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Building blended learning solutions on a budget is not a hard choice to understand, but it can be hard to do. Follow these tips to figure out where to start, how to identify big wins to build your support and momentum, and the practical how-tos of getting development and delivery done with agility, even on a shoestring. This knowledge will guide you to make good decisions about how and where to spend your blended learning budget.

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Learning Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2011

We’ve all seen it with our own eyes: when a company hits hard times, its training budget is one of the first casualties. To counter-act that perception, the L&D team must do a better job of demonstrating its worth to the business in terms of performance and, ultimately, profit. However in the back of my mind I was empathising with the poor bunnies who are stuck now with slashed training budgets. Of course the remedy is simple: spend less.

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TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

That’s right, most of us remember our first day at work with the “fear of the unknown”. Gone are the days when individuals would feel lucky to be part of a successful organization. With the proliferation of dot com and brick and mortar companies all around us, companies consider themselves lucky when a new employee accepts an offer and continues to stay with them beyond six months! Many of us have been through an unorganized and mismanaged onboarding process.

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ePath Learning

JUNE 27, 2019

I recently cruised the Caribbean on one of the world’s largest ships. This performance support solution provided an interactive map; up-to-the-minute information on activities; a schedule of booked shows, mealtimes, spa treatments, and excursions; and much more! Supporting your Moment of Need. Imagine that one of your employees is performing a critical, but rarely performed, task on the job.

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Sponge UK

AUGUST 4, 2015

Last year, 4 in 5 were predicting that by 2016 they will be using some kind of mobile learning. The same number believed they will have incorporated video in their offering and will have turned to communities of practice to support social collaboration. So why is there so much talk about new tools and approaches and yet so little progress being made by the wider L&D community? One of the reasons might be our confidence in using learning technologies.

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ID Reflections

MAY 28, 2009

The connotation of the word social is changing from one of "connect" to bring into its fold other meanings like collaborate, learn, share, give, participate, hear, be heard, ask, be answered.This is not a litany in praise of Twitter--it is in support of all social networking sites (SNS) that will help us to collaborate and build collective knowledge. The latter will be our saviour in this time of recession when corporate training budgets are at an all time low.

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Your Training Edge

JULY 8, 2013

For the past year or so, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been busy upending all kinds of assumptions about education: content is king, quality education is expensive, and instructor-led training is the gold standard, to name just a few. One major change that MOOCs have greatly contributed to is the gaining recognition of learning as a primarily social activity, where the networks created are just as important (if not more important) as the content learned.

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Pract.us

MARCH 21, 2017

A native of New Zealand, Paul Matthews has always applied the practical, no-nonsense approach he learned growing up on a farm to his work in the corporate world. He’s been the director for a major IT company, founder of People Alchemy , and leadership consultant to blue chip clients. Through his experience, he’s recognized the power of informal learning and has helped his clients take advantage of it. What are the different flavors of informal learning?

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ID Reflections

JUNE 2, 2009

As John Seely Brown says, ~Instead of “ I think therefore I am ”, it is “We participate and therefore we are” ~ Social learning has always been around. And has probably been one of the most effective means of learning as Bandura and Vygotsky had said long back. We have built communities of practices to facilitate and construct our own understanding. Decreased training budget 3. Lack of formal training because of point 2 4.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

Your organization has decided to tilt in the direction of informal learning. You need to satisfy increasing demands with reduced staff and budget. You’re concerned that your current offerings will not satisfy the new generation of workers. Masterclass for L&D managers, instructional designers, and senior instructors on the concept and implementation of informal learning. Here’s an overview of the topics from recent Masterclasses.

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ePath Learning

AUGUST 1, 2019

Ideally, learning sessions are short and focused, incorporate breaks, and are followed by practice at intervals to help maintain and extend retention. However, the glassy surface of the water soon returns—leaving no visible evidence that the event ever occurred. Spaced learning, also referred to as distributed practice, can be likened to skipping a stone. A training approach that supports learners at multiple moments of need. Improves retention of learning over time.

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Your Training Edge

MAY 13, 2013

A company’s training strategy usually comprises of four aspects: Identifying measurable outcomes. Monitoring the effectiveness of the training plan. It is purely based on your business goals and comprises of targets such as increased productivity, reduced attrition, improved customer service, etc. It is advisable to monitor every aspect of your methodology so that when the time comes, the evaluation of whether to go the MOOC way or not will become simple for you.

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Bottom-Line Performance

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Most of us are curious about tomorrow (hence, our fascination with all the predictions for the upcoming year)… but we live in today. Here’s the sources we used to help formulate a picture of today: Responses to Training Magazine ’s Training Top 125 submission. Training’s Top 125 acknowledges the companies whose efforts in learning and development (L&D) stand out from the rest in terms of their impact on the winners’ bottom-line results. Lots of folks talking about it.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 25, 2013

Perhaps the constant effort to find the ROI of higher education or even training programs is mis-placed, should we be asking ourselves if an alternative exists? As the competitive landscape of higher education shifts and the training industry changes, using a measurement like Return On Investment (ROI) as the only guide for evaluating information technology investments like an LMS or an audience response system is a mistake. Johnson community college initiative. [3]

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TalentLMS

APRIL 23, 2015

Take charge of your organization’s learning needs before you appoint an external consultant. The best learning solutions developed for any company are the ones with intimate involvement of trainers and managers with the eLearning consultants. Khan (2004) of Khan Academy developed a list of foundational elements that combine to create a complete eLearning framework. People are the stakeholders as well as employees of your organization.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 23, 2015

Take charge of your organization’s learning needs before you appoint an external consultant. The best learning solutions developed for any company are the ones with intimate involvement of trainers and managers with the eLearning consultants. Khan (2004) of Khan Academy developed a list of foundational elements that combine to create a complete eLearning framework. People are the stakeholders as well as employees of your organization.

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Your Training Edge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

MOOCs started to make their way into the mainstream in 2012, and while the idea of gamification has been around for more than a century , and the value of games in learning has been recognized for several decades, it is only recent advances in technology that have made both MOOCs and gamification viable training options. According to this elearning infographic : By 2015, half of organizations’ innovation processes will use gamification for some aspects.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 12, 2011

Many of us are on a limited budget. So when there’s an opportunity to get something for free I’m all for taking advantage of it. Your choices were to use a generic font or you make an image of the text in a special font (if you wanted more than the basics). Today, many of those limitations are gone because you can use web fonts. In addition to promoting the use of web fonts, they’ve been putting together a nice collection of open source fonts.

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eLearning 24-7

MARCH 9, 2020

It has been a wild week from the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone to the ability to compare systems in detail on FindAnLMS, to the Coronavirus and the usage of Microsoft Teams as part of the L&D experience. A lot of readers and folks on various social media have asked about my perspective on a variety of areas, so without further adieu. It is quite common for folks to do handshakes, hugs at the show, both of which would have to be stopped.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Few industries can keep theory and practice as proximate and immediate as learning, and treating everyday needs as an opportunity to experiment can lead to better results and innovation. Instead, use a systematic approach with a combination of push-and-pull resources, some that come automatically, as well as a select few requiring initiative. Keep a running list of ideas to try out. Some experiments will have to go into an annual plan and budget.

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Your Training Edge

DECEMBER 15, 2014

MOOCs started to make their way into the mainstream in 2012, and while the idea of gamification has been around for more than a century , and the value of games in learning has been recognized for several decades, it is only recent advances in technology that have made both MOOCs and gamification viable training options. According to this elearning infographic : By 2015, half of organizations’ innovation processes will use gamification for some aspects.

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Marcia Conner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

When I lead education at PeopleSoft a gazillion years ago, I shared with the head of all customer-facing services a copy of Training Magazine ‘s annual numbers issue, published each November (now their November/December issue ). With the popularity of my stats to make the case for social tools in business , post I realized others may also appreciate information on where to find data about learning at work. Of this total direct learning expenditure, 56 percent ($87.5

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Saffron Interactive

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Recently I’ve been rereading The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning , first published in 2006. Pleasingly iconoclastic, the book challenges some of the bad habits and received wisdom which limit the scope of our ambitions. They each deserve some serious attention and in a series of blog posts, I want to share my thoughts on how they apply to us in 2014. So what do we mean by ‘the complete experience’ in terms of programme design?

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

APRIL 29, 2007

Communities of Practice: Addressing Workforce Trends Through New Learning Models Some good quotes from the article above: "Organizations would be well-advised to shift budgets and resources from formal learning settings to informal situations where the majority of learning actually takes place."

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Elucidat

AUGUST 22, 2018

We’ve pulled together our years of experience working across hundreds of elearning teams of every size and configuration – across the globe. Too often production teams are under huge pressures to produce large volumes of elearning, quickly. It’s a big challenge to efficiently produce quality online learning content that meets the needs of users and business stakeholders…particularly when under strain. Think of your team in terms of roles not jobs.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2013

Money spent on training rose 12 percent on average in 2012, according to a new study, a sign that, amid greater financial stability, firms are focused on the development of their workforces. 22 Money spent on training rose 12 percent on average in 2012, according to a study by human resources research firm Bersin by Deloitte, a sign that, amid greater financial stability, firms are focused on the development of their workforces. companies spent an average of $706 per learner.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2014

Although learning is proven to contribute to business success, slashed budgets have put many organizations’ learning efforts on the chopping block, opening the door for blending learning. More than two-thirds of those surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers in its third global study on project management stated that project management training contributed to business performance. Budget is often the reason training gets put on the back burner.

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EI Design

AUGUST 19, 2020

So, I re-examined my original list against these pressing needs of today. Even though the overall impact of the crisis is still unfolding, it has clearly redefined the workplace in the future. Trends that help you assess the impact of remote training and aid you in maximizing the ROI.

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Rapid eLearning

MAY 10, 2011

Rapid elearning design is made up of three core functions: rapid authoring, rapid assets, and rapid instructional design. One thing common to many rapid elearning developers is that while their organizations will fund the purchase of rapid authoring tools, they do little else to fund the development of the assets required to make the elearning course look good and be effective. For example, a large part of the course’s construction involves the visual design of the course.

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Limestone Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

A bit of both? Those vital signs of health are critical to the body working. In your training world, there are also vital signs of health. In this webinar with Becky Pike Pluth, President and CEO, The Bob Pike Group, you’ll: Examine four vital signs of participant-centred training. Explore six ideas you can use to put people in charge of their own learning. Some topics covered will be: Building a community of practice.

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Rapid eLearning

APRIL 5, 2011

A few days ago I came across this thread in the user community. In it, Dave Newgass was asking how to build an interaction of a person going in and out of a cubicle. He got a couple of responses and a demo PowerPoint file to review. Dave’s question (and the feedback he got) really speak to the value of the user community and why you need to be part of it if you aren’t already. Asking questions builds a pool of tips and tricks.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 9, 2010

I am copying a discussion we have been having on LinkedIn as a part of the Training&Development group. The discussion that evolved has been one of the most insightful for me and I thought it should be shared with those who may not at present be a part of the T&D group on LinkedIn. What are some of the primary and secondary functions that a business expects from a learning consultant? 2) Understand the parameters of performance analysis.(KPI's

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2009

Using eLearning Learning , I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time. Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Try Before You Buy Tools Used Better Conferences - Response Needed Roles in CoP's The science of learning Learning 2.0

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. Most people in training programs learn only a little of the right stuff, are fuzzy about how to apply what they’ve learned, and never address who are the right people to know. Achieving balance requires a scale of measurement.

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Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This means they can find any content through a single search engine (the way they can Google anything outside of work) or they know where to look for content because it resides someplace they already visit frequently for a specific topic or task (e.g., their community of practice, the portal for a specific software tool or process). That means minimal sign ins, minimal clicks to locate and launch exactly what they need, and of course speedy download and streaming.

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Janet Clarey

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

In this first post, part of the Friday series “LMSs that kick ass,&# I’ll be highlighting one Learning Management System (LMS). ’ Via an email interview, I spoke with Charles about what Cornerstone OnDemand is working on and look forward to viewing a demo of their new release in December. Cornerstone already offers training for the extended enterprise; this is a logical extension of that practice area.

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