Learnnovators

AUGUST 19, 2015

Sahana Chattopadhyay is a performance consultant and an L&D professional with 15 years of experience in the field of academia and organizational learning. Her passion is to help organizations become learning organizations through social and collaborative learning.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

We live in an age of information abundance but lacking in insight and wisdom; it is almost impossible to make sense of it as an individual. I deal with sensitive information and data. Having said that, there may well be data like employees personal information that must be protected. Why should I post it for all to see?

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Learnnovators

JUNE 29, 2015

I happened to mention “ working out loud ” as a practice that is fundamental to social and collaborative learning, and drew a completely blank stare. It not only opens up pathways to collaborative learning but also creates a safe space for others to come forward with their own doubts.

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Convergence Training

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Register for our FREE Selecting Online Manufacturing Training Webinar. The First Step: How Does Your LMS Fit Within Your Organizational Learning Strategy? So before you get started on your LMS search, be sure you understand your organization’s learning goals and what the strategy is for reaching them.

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Learnnovators

MAY 11, 2015

However, when one attempts to translate these into practices and manifested behaviours that will make sense in an organizational set-up, suddenly one is confounded by the existing processes and priorities that are most often in direct opposition to the spirit of the statements.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 10, 2016

MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities. These are essentially “pull” and collaborative learning modes and cannot be imposed. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

JULY 9, 2015

However, with learning and development, when you ask someone about learning ‘benchmarks’, typically they talk about: How much money we are spending on learning? What are the completion rates of a typical online learning program? How should we be using that to inform our strategy and make it meaningful?

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 6, 2015

While I cannot profess that L&D/OD specialists can change the nature of management, I can say that well-informed and skilled professionals from this field can enable an organization to empower its employees and management to acquire those skills that will get them to use the social technologies with greater efficacy.

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WBT Systems

JANUARY 31, 2017

So, how can associations adopt a learning culture and strategic plan that will enable them to become learning organizations? Here are examples of some statements from the questionnaire which may be useful: In my organization, people openly discuss mistakes in order to learn from them.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Sure, they may be thoughtfully filtered and informatively annotated, but a hotchpotch is a hotchpotch. It’s worth remembering that education is not the provision of information; it is sense making. For example, it may inform the sequence of an online course. (In This content is new knowledge.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

Because of its blended nature – formal course content with informal and social learning woven around it – MOOCs cannot be a top down endeavour. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

MAY 10, 2015

However, when one attempts to translate these into practices and manifested behaviours that will make sense in an organizational set-up, suddenly one is confounded by the existing processes and priorities that are most often in direct opposition to the spirit of the statements.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 29, 2015

I happened to mention “ working out loud ” as a practice that is fundamental to social and collaborative learning, and drew a completely blank stare. While “social learning” as a phrase, concept and strategy is fairly well-known by now, the concept of “working out loud” hasn’t yet garnered that level of popularity.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 22, 2015

Because of its blended nature – formal course content with informal and social learning woven around it – MOOCs cannot be a top down endeavour. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. Power of Diversity.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 13, 2015

New learners are self-directed, and are capable of organizing, driving and managing their own learning using the Internet. We are in agreement with Sugata Mitra about not just allowing access to information (via the Internet) during examinations, but also to base the testing process around this principle.

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Learnnovators

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve previously written about the need to design learning & high performance ecosystems here , and have been reflecting on some common ingredients for effective ones. COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS. I’ve captured some of these in the infographic below: 5 Ingredients of HIGH PERFORMANCE ECOSYSTEM : COMPANY CULTURE. PERFORMANCE SUPPORT.

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Learnnovators

MAY 10, 2016

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of gamifying a course? While all of this can be added in a course, it is not until you include a leaderboard that the gamification experience feels ‘complete’.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 5, 2021

The converging disciplines we call “neuroscience” are changing so rapidly that it is risky to rely too much on books for the latest information. However, most learning professionals don’t have access to the many peer-reviewed journals covering cognitive science – and they certainly don’t have the time to do so.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 1, 2015

@ ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera. These are: (MSL 1): Encompassing formal and informal learning.

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Learnnovators

JUNE 1, 2015

@ ignatia (Inge de Waard) describes MOOCs thus in her Master’s Thesis: “MOOC is above all referring to a pedagogical model with independent learners, access to information, opportunity to create emerging, spontaneous, yet not directed learning communities, etcetera. These are: (MSL 1): Encompassing formal and informal learning.

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Learnnovators

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Providing generic, platform related information is not too useful. The activity stream turns into an overwhelming flood and people lose control of their information flow. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Thus, in contrast to the fast-paced, real time, informal sharing on Twitter, SlideShare requires a more thorough output. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger. Pinterest allows one to create Boards around topics.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The goal of this series is to build upon good implementations of instructional design, and go deeper into the nuances of what makes learning really work. This is the fifth post in a series of six that covers Deeper eLearning.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Open to learning and collaboration: “Collaboration” seems to be the mantra of the era. Whether it is about remaining agile and connected to the edges or about completing a project, collaboration gets called upon.

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Learnnovators

JANUARY 4, 2016

At the same time, you advise learning designers to exercise caution while designing solutions, and take into consideration what could be learning preferences. Ryan: My caution here is in the context of the ever informalizing workplace. The role of the organization is to foster a collaborative learning culture.

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Learnnovators

JULY 29, 2015

The key question we (as L&D/HR) need to think of is how are we going to support workplace learning to build such skills in the workforce? The overarching requirement is to develop workers who think for themselves, who can drive their own learning and are not restrained by the norms and processes of the past.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Social networks, both in-person and online, are democratizing the workplace, and workers have an increasing amount of say in what they learn and how they learn it. They are used to having information at their fingertips. Today most of the information that workers need to know is unstructured and constantly changing.

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Learnnovators

MAY 24, 2015

Just as the advent of e-learning created a shift in training paradigms a couple of decades back, MOOCs are set to create another shift today. With the rise of MOOCs, we are also likely to see social, collaborative learning take root in organizations. What is the value proposition of a MOOC in workplace learning?

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Digital skills include capabilities like working out loud , pattern sensing, sharing and connecting openly to develop a rich and diverse PLN, collaborating with a defined purpose, using technology with an awareness of its potential to promote self-driven learning, democratization of information, and so on.

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Learnnovators

MAY 25, 2015

Just as the advent of e-learning created a shift in training paradigms a couple of decades back, MOOCs are set to create another shift today. With the rise of MOOCs, we are also likely to see social, collaborative learning take root in organizations. What is the value proposition of a MOOC in workplace learning?

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Learnnovators

APRIL 19, 2016

They are usually the ones to volunteer information, ask questions and try out new ways of doing things. It cannot be argued that the digital world calls for constant exploration, experimentation and learning. In the VUCA world, ambiguity and volatility (change) is often a way of being. Life is in a perpetual state of beta.

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Learnnovators

MAY 18, 2015

What Hinchcliffe says above about social business being a strategic approach applies equally to organizations seeking to adopt social learning and become learning organizations. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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Learnnovators

MAY 18, 2015

What Hinchcliffe says above about social business being a strategic approach applies equally to organizations seeking to adopt social learning and become learning organizations. Sahana Chattopadhyay is an L&D Consultant, OD Specialist, Blended Learning Architect, Social Learning Evangelist, and Blogger.

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