There are many eLearning providers to choose from. In an on-going set of FAQs, your decision-making process should include:
Q - How does the eLearning solutions company approach course design?
A - As in all forms of education, the most effective Web-based courses are learner-focused.
Intriguing as it may sound; thought to bring this question forward for discussion, for it may after all seem as difficult to answer as it may to distance from. Many would agree that most of the high-performing organizations have engaged themselves with strategic talent planning and management over a period of time during the course of their journey, to reach where they today are.
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Chief Learning Officer, Training Department Manager, Learning Consultant, Program Manager.....you are responsible for many learning programs....and possibly an entire organization that supports your company's learning objectives. How do you know if your learning programs are where your company needs them to be? Our Infosys learning team uses a learning maturity model that can assess your organization's current learning maturity level, help you decide where you want to be in the future, and create a roadmap to help you get there.
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When we started Learning Services, we knew that our team is going to be very different from a regular team that we would see in Infosys - we would be different because we would do a different kind of work and we will have people with different and diverse skills with us- we will have instructional designers, creative designers, learning consultants in addition to our regular project management and technology streams. Some of these roles were not even heard in Infosys before! We started building the team by bringing in the right skills from other organizations and also from within. This meant having people with different working styles and organizational cultures coming together.
The new world of Learning - panel discussion series
How do you filter the knowledge in the Web 2.0 scenario with so many options available? Wikipedia is so huge. There are hundreds of thousands of blogs. How do you make sure what is knowledge and how would I measure that it is useful for me?
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The new world of Learning - panel discussion series
We see there is this need-based learning wherein there is a particular problem and you want to solve those problems. You put 10 people on the job, train them and get that problem solved. The other approach is more a leadership type of training, which is more transient in nature. You identify potential leaders, mentor them for a longer period of time. What are the challenges you see in these contrasting scenarios – a more behavioral way of learning and a more task-based learning environments?
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Infosys’ Learning Services recently conducted a panel discussion on the topic “ The new world of Learning “. We are running a series of questions that the audience posed. The panelists were - Srikantan Moorthy, Vice President and Head - Education and Research; Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Principal Researcher- SETLabs and Kaiser Masood, Principal Consultant, Infosys Leadership Institute.
How is local knowledge existing in certain pockets is being shared/distributed globally?
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Hello and Welcome to Infosys' Learning Services blog. I am Gaurav Rastogi, Head of Infosys' Learning Services practice, and I will be blogging along with my other colleagues from Infosys. Let me tell you what you can expect from this blog - you can expect open discussions, profound insights, half-baked ideas and an inside look into the life of a startup within a big company.
Learning Services within Infosys has been around for a couple of quarters now. We're reaching out primarily to Infosys' client base to start up the service, and to bounce off ideas about what we can do for them.
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The relevance of learning within an organization is recognized by most companies as being crucial to their long-term interest. Yet, even the most savvy, knowledge-based organizations do not dedicate any significant portions of their budgets and corporate energies to this critical activity. At a leading Manhattan investment bank a couple of years back, I got a blank look when I enquired as to how bankers exchanged learnings from a particular deal they had worked on.
People have dynamic and fluid minds. Their past experiences shape the way their mind is and their learning habits. These habits are displayed is varying degrees depending on the learning environment they are exposed to and the objectives of their learning. The combination of these learning habits and learning environments form the key factors that would define appropriate learning styles for these people.
Usually learning styles can be broadly categorized as Just In time, experiential learning like peeling the orange and getting to the core, adaptive learning and constructive learning.
There is much talk about how globalization and new tools are changing the world of learning. There isn't much clarity about how much the world has changed, and whether things that worked in the past would still continue to work. For example, "Training" used to be the main way learning was "delivered" in the past...will it continue to be the dominant way people learn in the future?
In this note, I would like to cover my thoughts on WHY things are changing. In a later posts I will visit the impact of these changes.
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