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March 1, 2011
June 30, 2010
Maximising Learning Usage Part 1
It is important to know your audience, their motivational factors, their cultural background and their personal interests to cater the same learning content in different style and flavour. For instance I always fall asleep reading books on history while same topic shown on TV captures my attention.
To talk about a real time scenario; my previous organisation had a customised Learning Management System(LMS); a great learning portal linking to online library, thousands of E-learnings, podcasts, videocasts, blogs and all of Web 2.0 aspects. Every quarter when we pulled reports, the statistic showed as predicted that Consulting service groups took the most advantage of this portal, followed by Audit, Tax and least being utilized by the Financial Services. The global report further showed that US, Mexico, Canada utilised these resources more than any other country. It was time to boost and motivate the UK employee to become avid learners. The strategies followed were the ten fold path listed below:-
1. Through Managers : - Tying the online learning content to Personal Development Plans
2. Through HR :- Making relevant resources as mandatory and to be part of compliance with HR policies
3. Through Challenges :- Assessments, Quizzes and Game based learning contents were part of weekly challengers on every Industry portals.
4. Through Rewards :- Motivating by rewarding with certificates/gift etc on course completions
5. Through Active Marketing: - Showcasing the Top ten books of the month, the new online resources, videos, podcast etc.
6. Through Promoting within Service Lines: - Each Service line had a learning curriculum where the online content was mapped, this gave a clear guidance to the learner on what learning was mapped for them. Similarly each Service lines and Industry learning portal had their own bookshelves mapped to online library.
7. Through Blended Learning: - Introducing online resources as prerequisite for classroom session or as good after read content.
8. Through Innovative technologies : - helping to enable learning portal to be accessed through company mobile.
9. Through Leadership : By introducing and re-introducing company's learning capabilities and resources during induction, orientation and other seminars and meetings.
10. Through Learning Community: - A learning network of blogs, wiki and profiles to spread learning across the organisation.
Do you think the measures above helped the statistic get better? Watch out for part 2 .
March 18, 2010
Choosing an eLearning Provider - Part 3
There are many eLearning providers to choose from. In an on-going set of FAQs, your decision-making process should include:
Q - Can the course be easily upgraded, edited, or modified?
The best e-learning solution is one that provides you the opportunity to make changes as needed. Industry standards can change at the drop of a hat, particularly when software or other technological progress is involved.
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February 26, 2010
Choosing an eLearning Provider - Part 2
There are many eLearning providers to choose from. In an on-going set of FAQs, your decision-making process should include:
Q - Will the course be identical to your company's look and feel?
A - That depends on you. If you go with a boilerplate from the development application, there is some leeway in adding logos or changing color. However,
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February 24, 2010
Choosing an eLearning Provider
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.
December 31, 2009
What's the Secret Ingredient?
Everyone knows the three most important ingredients to have a successful restaurant right? You can have the best foods, the best run kitchen, the best and most polite service but without the secret ingredient your restaurant may fail, right? The secret ingredient of course is; location, location, location!
So what is the most successful ingredient for learning success?
May 21, 2009
What is Learning 2.0?
Learning2.0 is now a common term in learning industry. However, questions and doubts still abound about Learning 2.0 and its use for learning in an organization. Learning 2.0 can help organizations solve many of their learning and training needs that conventional means of learning can’t.Learning 2.0 is not a new a technology or a new tool for learning.
In the traditional methods of learning like classroom training and eLearning, learner is just fed with information and teacher dictates the learning. Learning 2.0 is a fundamental shift in learning methodology that places learner in the center of learning and allows the learner to control the learning. Learning 2.0 enables an employee to control and track individual learning using a set of
December 17, 2008
Experiential Learning – the way into the future
The new world of Learning - panel discussion series
What are the views in using technology for experiential learning? What are the adoption challenges in creation of case studies of real life experiences using Second Life and Virtual World? It is also said that the US Army is using intelligence software agents to train soldiers on behavior in the Middle East to improve interaction with local people, because that is actually a scenario.
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October 24, 2008
Why innovation and how to innovate ?
Companies, who seek learning solutions to get help in either solving their business problems or meeting their growth aspirations, expect their employees to become more effective and productive by using such solutions. But, how much money are they willing to spend on learning? Usually, annual budget in any customer organization for learning and training of its employees ranges from 1,500 to 2,000 USD per employee. A global organization with its operations spread across countries and continents can have up to 18,000 to 22,000 employees. Several examples can be found from sectors like finance, insurance, etc. There may be (and in most cases, will be) a network of business partners who are involved in the
Remembering own ideas when required
All the members of organization has their ideas about how the processes/products can be improved, but they are not too careful about remembering their ideas and put forward it at right time.
This is also true about giving requirements for the products, end users can not give exact requirements when it comes to defining requirements(e.g. in software industry we find that many times requirement docs can not describe features that users have in mind).
