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  • The role of T&D in the 21st Century: itâ¬"s about the method
    ... based on my read…and this is a mouthful): support, via bottom-up, workers’ meaning-making activities by providing mechanisms for feedback and by communicating their ‘learnings’ to those that focus on performance ... isn’t it? Or is the role to provide support for pre-set, top-down performance indicators set around the business needs by communicating ‘learning objectives’ and creating activities around those objectives? Using a ... ;s about the method. The L&D role is to provide the best method for learning through support and feedback, ...
    Janet Clarey - Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - Comments
  • Leading Learning and New Skills
    ... really care about improving performance, then we need to recognize the scope of our Learning Responsibility and to broaden ourselves to go from Learning Objectives to Performance Objectives and Business Needs.Kimberly McCollum in The networked ... leader in his or her organization around how to support learning in the workplace, he or she cannot be illiterate in ... develop a clearer understanding of how these 2.0 technologies can be used to support learning. Otherwise, our ... networks to improve organizational performance is a prerequisite for shaping learning and development from here on ...
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - Comments
  • Leading Learning and New Skills
    ... really care about improving performance, then we need to recognize the scope of our Learning Responsibility and to broaden ourselves to go from Learning Objectives to Performance Objectives and Business Needs.Kimberly McCollum in The networked ... be a thought leader in his or her organization around how to support learning in the workplace, he or she cannot be ... , we have to develop a clearer understanding of how these 2.0 technologies can be used to support learning. Otherwise ... This month on the Learning Circuits Blog - I asked some very leading questionsIf we have responsibility for ...
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 31, 2008 - Comments
  • Keynote Day 2
    ... can do this for an artificial world, why can't we do this in the real world adapted to learning>Objectives- Open to all ... structural way in new learning management strategies- Support research and development enterprise to ensure continuous ... Welcome - Brigadier Gen Sanford Holman (Skip)The Mashup of Virtual Worlds and Learning - Henry Kelly, President ... operations.- 5 regional, 4 functional. - Mission-ready, joint-capable forces - Support interagency and multi-national ... learning becoming impt. joint training venue. Going to advance across DoD.- Good training impt for National ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, June 5, 2008 - Comments
  • Light, Agile and Flexible
    Object Notation- Will replace XML- Representation of data in Javascript Object Notation. Put data in script, ready to go.- Solves the cross-domain scripting problem. Think about the learning object problem - how do you make the learning object work on the learning management system if the learning object is hosted elsewhere.- Tag hack - create html page, in ... out. + Support interactivity - objects not cumulative, created by interaction with each other (emergence knowledge) that ... assisted by Web 2.0 technologies- Team creation performed by Yahoo Groups or even Moodle (Australia Educators).- Content ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Social Learning at Ebay
    They looked at the learning objectives and made them challenged-based. The facilitator hands out challenges to groups ... employees, the have a list of ‘objects’ they need to learn about. SMEs can quickly update the information ... After the scrumptious lunch, it is eBay time!! Support: 80% is through email, 15% is chat and 5% is phone. This will ... ? 90% of eBays resources were on formal learning, but about 80% were happening informally. They were starting to feel ... definition of Learning 2.0 is not about the instruction but creating multiple learning paths. Let everyone contribute ...
    Engaged Learning - Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - Comments
  • Rapid e-learning means more than quick tutorials
    ... suited than tutorials to performance support applications, where learning is not the primary objective. What's more they ... revolution is the emergence of all sorts of new learning objects, designed for quick access when you need something that's ... time designing formal, interactive, self-study lessons, then rapid e-learning means doing the same thing, only quicker. There's an assumption that digital learning content must be structured into sequences of screens containing informational ... who has spent a large proportion of my life designing CBT/interactive video/multimedia/e-learning (all essentially ...
    Clive on Learning - Friday, March 7, 2008 - Comments
  • Scope of Learning Responsibility
    Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is:What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals?This question comes from several recent experiences. 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. There ... supporting Long Tail Learning? Do they have responsibility for learning beyond what can be delivered through instruction ... Objectives, Performance Objectives and Business NeedsMaria Hlas - Who's Job is it Anyway?Nicola - quick ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Monday, March 3, 2008 - Comments
  • Scope of Learning Responsibility
    Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is:What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals?This question comes from several recent experiences. 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. There ... supporting Long Tail Learning? Do they have responsibility for learning beyond what can be delivered through instruction ... Objectives, Performance Objectives and Business NeedsMaria Hlas - Who's Job is it Anyway?Nicola - quick ...
    Learning Circuits - Monday, March 3, 2008 - Comments
  • Balancing top-down and bottom-up approaches
    ... that I have just finished running, on the design of performance support materials. Here the issue arises in both the ... covered;a guide to the site, prepared using Captivate;a variety of materials that place performance support in context, created mainly with Articulate tools;an online version of my own Learning Object Design Assistant (LODA);a glossary of performance support terms that learners could add to;a wiki, primed with summaries of all the formal content plus ... discussion, but the majority of the time is spent by learners in preparing prototypes of performance support materials ...
    Clive on Learning - Sunday, September 9, 2007 - Comments
  • Straight talk - am I the only one enjoying myself?
    Gottfredson told us that content management is essentially dead, as are reusable learning objects which no-one ever really got ... managed it.Bob Mosher also worked hard to revive the rather ageing concept of performance support, with some success. I liked the way he catgorised e-learning - and all other types of training - as forms of performance support.Anyway - the ... , part of the impressively-titled Learning Management Colloquium (whatever that means). Anyway, the idea was that Lance Dublin interview a series of e-learning notables in the presence of us punters. I saw three of the ...
    Clive on Learning - Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - Comments
  • More on the Form of Informal
    I'm personally much more confident if I have a set of performance objectives that I can use to derive learning ... performance objectives, provide appropriate support, structure and form without dictating to some level? No one says its ... learning took and provide support for that kind of learning in the future you start down the path of dictating solutions ... understanding the next level of informal learning: what kinds of guidance, what kinds of support, how can be provided, that ultimately lead us to accomplishing our performance objectives?
    eLearning Technology - Monday, December 4, 2006 - Comments
  • Learning 2.0 still not mainstream
    ... create the flexible learning environments that support the learners participation in the process. Web2.0 supplies the technologies and tools, and supports the new learning culture that is forming on its own. Its important to realize that this is major shift. Evolving existing eLearning courses into reusable learning objects is not that Revolution that is required for the learning community to keep up with the rapid technology and cultural changes. Reusable learning objects are ... sell learning 2.0 in terms of dollars and performance metrics. Want a better sales person? Give them access to ...
    Learning Next - Friday, February 17, 2006 - Comments
  • e-Learning: In Search of a Better Definition
    ... modularizing and handling the following: Different kinds of content and learning objects (including both electronic and non ... related to learning. The utilities and capabilities for supporting informal learning, mentoring, communities of practice ... parts to learning, just as there are in performance. Gilbert said that performance has two aspects: behavior being the ... . Learning directly supports the top agenda of CEOs, business groups and customer responsiveness." This of course takes us ... One of the first definitions for e-learning is ASTD's, who define it as covering a wide set of applications ...
    Big Dog, Little Dog - Monday, November 8, 2004 - Comments