Wanting to get a good snapshot of e-learning industry best practice and what suppliers are doing in a handy day sized chunk? Look no further than the ELN showcase on 11 July. This will be the 4th one that I’ve been too and I’ve always found them to be thought provoking, a chance to meet interesting people and a good use of a day away from the office. It would be great to see you there.
What Web 2.0 will do for you
Last week at the Trainers & Developers Network , I led a series of activities and discussions about Web 2.0 and its impact on learning. A fascinating day. What did we conclude that you could expect to see over the next few years?
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New shiny website
Here’s a shameless plug for the new Academy Internet website. I trust you’ll find that it demonstrates the creativity and wow factor that we can bring to your learning projects, and failing that, that you’ll enjoy some of the mini games and puzzles. If you’re feeling more serious there’s also some diagnostics and case study material e.g. the Insiders Guides.
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Web 2.0 and its impact on learning
There’s an increasing amount being written about Web 2.0 (the idea that the web increasingly allowing 2 way communication, rather than being a 1 way publishing of information). Technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites and YouTube allow us to re-examine the way people learn in organisations. Is this the next big thing? Or is it a load of reheated ideas under a fine pastry crust of hype?
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Wii Fit and compliance e-learning
This weekend we visited friends for Sunday lunch who had just got a Wii Fit. What impressed me most (apart from the chance to practice downhill skiing) is how Nintendo have taken the mundane and much avoided task of exercise and turned it into something fun, whilst making a good few quid along the way. So how can this inform compliance e-learning?
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Advanced personal learning? Can we get solar power instead?
The National Academy of Engineering of the USA’s National Science Foundation, has released 14 “Great Challenges”, which includes a focus on “Advancing Personalized Learning” and others such as making solar power economical. I remember being 12 and trying to work out how you could generate electricity using the chemical reactions in photosynthesis. It seemed a simple enough equation, so I puzzled over it for a while, until my sister who was studying Biology A level at the time told me with a knowing smile that photosynthesis was way more complicated than that, and that I was wasting my time.
Since then, my education and career seems to have taken me into the arena of advancing personalized learning…and as the name challenge would suggest, I wonder how much this resembles world peace…a much desired thing, but fraught with practical difficulties…
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Big Four top of the class
In the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to work for, the Big Four have scored very impressively, taking 4 of the top 12 in the 20 Best Big Companies list, with KPMG leading the way. Congratulations to everyone concerned in making this happen. In a professional practice, it’s rare for non-fee earners to get the credit so it’s great to enjoy this chance in the limelight. So what does more detailed analysis of the results reveal and how can other practices learn from this?
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Beware of the buyer
As I write, a multinational company has invited 20 e-learning suppliers to a 2 day workshop as part of a process that will whittle the list down to 6 preferred suppliers. Whilst it’s up to each company to decide how it wants to procure its e-learning, the raving stupidity of their approach could not pass without comment.
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Time to retire Kirkpatrick?
When you first turned your thoughts to evaluating training, it’s odds-on that a colleague or consultant recommended you to have a look at the Kirkpatrick model. It’s a straightforward concept to grasp and it’s been in use for 50 years. However, in practice it’s really difficult to apply, and probably even more so in a professional services firm.
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Making it up as you go along
Life in the business world is getting more unpredictable. The increasing availability of information and ever increasing expectations for client service and response time mean that there is less that can be planned reliably. If therefore you accept that a “plan for everything” policy is unachievable, then it’s time to stop focusing so much on the future and be more skilled at behaving spontaneously in the present…can you smell the fear from the old school accountants/ lawyers in your firm yet?
The Trainers & Developers Network has a day called “Improvisation for Better Business Performance” coming up on Friday March 14. Would you like to be there?
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