Workplace. Informal. eLearning Technology. Welcome to CLOMedia - Chief Learning Officer magazine. The Next Generation of Digitally Enhanced Learning — from The Journal. The Next Generation of Digitally Enhanced Learning — from The Journal by Scott Aronowitz At the recent Ed Tech Summit, a technology consultant took a distant look at the future of education, based on both widespread speculation and technologies currently on the market and in development In his lecture at the Ed Tech Summit at the InfoComm 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Mark S.
Valenti, founder and president of Pittsburgh-based technology consulting firm The Sextant Group, delved into the myriad of ways in which advancing technology will continue to enhance, improve, and expand education–both K-12 and post-secondary education–as well as the shifts in priorities and attitudes such advancements will likely cause. Finally, such technology will lead to a rethinking of the architecture of learning spaces themselves. “Collaboration across time and space will drive facility design [in the coming years]. Learning to change report. I don't normally write directly about the company I work for (Capita Learning & Development).
I value my independence too much for that. But, there are times when we put out stuff that's worth talking about. Today's a case in point. We've just published a research report (embedded below), based on the opinions of senior decision makers among the UK’s largest 500 firms. Here are some of the findings. The majority (70%) of business leaders fear that inadequate staff skills are the greatest threat to their ability to capitalise on the recovery. The art of user support.
#yam When I source websites and tools for people, my primary focus is on providing excellent user support.
If my clients aren't confident that they will get help at their point of need, then they will not use the systems I'm providing. The more use they get out of the systems, the more likely they are to come back to me for additional work. Good user support is made up of three elements: Empathetic attitudes Underlying processes Consistent communication These apply whether you're a single person providing support, or whether you're managing a large IT support desk. Empathetic attitudes Everyone involved in client-facing work must know what it feels like to be one of your customers. Creating Safer Peer-to-Peer Learning Experiences by Eric Davidove.
“Peer-to-peer learning systems are creating more powerful and enduring learning experiences, helping employees establish and leverage social connections to accelerate the distribution and sharing of experiences, content, and guidance, and allowing employees to be more productive, learn faster, and work smarter.”
As a learning and development professional you are probably always on the lookout for ways to create more value – particularly for any ideas that don't take a lifetime to develop and cost the Earth! But not all learning solutions of value need come at a great investment. The most powerful – and least leveraged – learning solution is peer-to-peer learning.
Workers learn more from mentors, coaches, peers, and members of their professional networks than from any other source. The 4 Cs of Extended Enterprise Learning and Performance. At VMG we spend a lot of time thinking about what drives enterprise learning and performance. Although each of our clients and partners has unique problems to solve, each solution we create contains some mix of the following four elements: Let’s look at each of these, starting at the bottom. Control Corporate training has long been about control: You must complete this course. You must pass this certification. In the extended enterprise, since you do not control the paychecks of your audience, you also have inherently less control of their activities. Content Corporate training has also been long concerned with content, traditionally in the form of courses, but more and more incorporating a much wider set of content types: blogs, microblogs, wikis, videos, games, etc.
In the extended enterprise the source of content widens considerably to include partners and customers who can often be more expert than your own employees, particularly around niche topics. For the design of an educational sim, how accurate is accurate enough?: An Excerpt from Simulations and the Future of Learning. What follows is an excerpt from Simulations and the Future of Learning: How accurate do simulations have to be to be valid teaching tools? Said more technically, to what degree does a simulation have to be predictive and/or of very high fidelity in order to be instructive? As with other questions concerning realism in simulations, the answer to this question will change with time.
Simulations will become increasingly realistic. But they will never perfectly replicate reality. Simulations are there to help people, not replace them—or as General George S. In fact, there are several reasons you might not want a simulation to perfectly reflect real life. The other side of complexity. In a recent speech, Dan Heath* shared a conceptualization about the tension between simplicity and complexity that really struck home after the in-depth conversations I had on the subject with attendees at the Academy of HRD conference.
At that conference back in February, colleagues Jo Tyler, Darren Short, and I led an interesting discussion about the fact that scholar-practitioners, in their translator role, often balance making complex theory and research simple against worrying that others might run with a simplified (or customized) version without fully understanding the underpinning work. Dan Heath conceptualized the simplicity-complexity dilemma as a bell curve, with simplicity at the tails and complexity as the hump to get over in the middle.
Dan suggested that the way to get over that steep curve is through education. POST - #Learning at the edge of chaos - Speaking of breakthroughs at the edge of chaos. 21st Century Learning Strategies « Spark Your Interest! I am working on several things which cluster around the theme of 21st century learning.
I’m developing workshops, helping clients craft strategies, providing context in a variety of ways to other clients/peers/readers around 21st century learning, which also goes by “social media in learning” and “Web 2.0 to train, support and develop”. It has me reflecting. What does 21st century learning strategy mean to me? Is it all about technology? Is it skills-oriented? Here’s a pretty typical approach to developing a learning strategy: Identify the business drivers?
So, my needs assessment process and output will look radically different today than it did 10 years ago. My technology plan will also include a more complex set of requirements. How to Talk Learning To Business « Performance, punctuated. Budgeting for Learning 2.0: It’s Not That Hard. I find it remarkably sad that ‘training’ departments within organizations continue to pump out bricks and mortar classes as their sole approach to learning instead of shifting to a formal, informal and social mix.
As I’ve repeatedly stated, formal classroom sessions are important, but they don’t have to be the only thing offered to the employee base, and they don’t have to exhaust the entire budget. Perhaps it’s because they (the ‘training’ departments) aren’t looking at it from a budgeting perspective. Here’s a hypothetical situation for you.