Learning Services

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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There are many eLearning providers to choose from. In an on-going set of FAQs, your decision-making process should include:

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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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.

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Have you ever had a pile of papers on your desk or bit of a mess in a room that you continue to walk by?  After having it camouflage itself mysteriously into the background, you finally decide it is time to clean that mess up.  Hours pass and things are filed or thrown away and finally, its cleaned up ….only to have it appear again days, weeks or months later.

Now – think about how many times you or your company has had to do this with regard to learning or talent development. Every time we turn around, the way we support and develop our people has turned itself into large unmanaged piles around the company or an absolute mess located in one place. Why and how does this happen? - For the same reasons that the piles and messes happen around your house or office– talent development and learning  is typically given a lower priority than the other things you have going on.

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Be it, calling a teacher in Bangalore by a seventh grader student from Down Town Chicago for her Mathematics lessons or of disseminating globally competitive knowledge and corporate lessons to the budding future CEOs. We now have more knowledge, more learning resources, more availability, more competition, more local needs, more global participation and increasingly lesser cost and time. Learning has now broken all the physical, psychological, scientific, language and demographic barriers. Today, anyone from anywhere can learn anything using the advancements in technology and using people centered democratic Web-2.0 thought process.

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The new world of Learning -  panel discussion series

You mentioned  about the personalized learning workbench.
1. How will it facilitate participative and collaborative learning?
2. There are so many collaboration features like Wikipedia and a whole bunch of other things in the external world, how do you make sure that you bring at least some elements of it within the organization?

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Over the past 10 years, I have watched both the Fortune 500 and mid-size companies all make significant investments in the systems and processes in an effort to gain more effectiveness and efficiency from their organizations.  Most recently, I am witness to and an active participant in assisting companies invest in the latest trend…Transformation. This is a nice one word way of summarizing the upgrading and changing of systems, people and processes at one time to reduce the amount of money and time spent in order to realize quicker time to impact. (Hello …GM, Ford, Chrysler….your solution is calling.)

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Posted by Cheryl Bamberg at 06:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

In continuation, to my earlier blog post Learning 1.0 vs. Learning 2.0 , I would like  to share about how the end user or the learner decides amongst  the myriad information sources, which one will fit his attention and what he will need to focus on. That is one fundamental driver in which the instruction mechanism has to change. This is something that content producers and so-called teachers have to now get used to-instead of being a producer and distributor, now will start looking at providing mechanisms to the end user to be able to assemble the different sources.

Today if you look at the instruction mechanisms that are emerging in different universities in the West or in some of the upcoming corporate learning scenarios, it is about providing the end user the handle to mix and match the different sources

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Posted by Srinivas Padmanabhuni at 09:05 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

As we have stepped into this new world of learning which we call Learning 2.0,  I thought it will be useful for us to step back a little bit and look at our own learning, because for years we have been involved in the learning process. We have learnt a lot of things, but if you look at some of the things where we remember what we have learned, you would find a lot of commonalities. And those commonalities could be that you had a good teacher or the method of learning involved you asking questions, which means it was an enquiry-based learning, or that you were solving problems. You took a concept and you were asked to solve a problem and then enhance the learning. Or if you look at the management school kind of learning it is a case-study based learning. So, there are some commonalities that lend to effective ways to learning. 

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Posted by Srikantan Moorthy at 06:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Collaborative learning refers to a method in which learners at various locations work together in small groups towards a common goal. Thus learners are responsible for one another's learning as well as their own. Success of one learner helps other to be successful by sharing knowledge/learning. It is a technique in which learners engage in sharing knowledge about the common tasks which are of interest to the group. Example can be a  group of students work together in resolving a complex mathematical problem, sharing the knowledge they have gained over various collaborative mediums like wiki, blogs etc.

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We are at a very exiting phase in this journey to become the numero uno Learning Services company  in the  learning market. The learning market is estimated to be worth over $10 Billion. Being new entrants into this rapidly expanding market, the opportunity is immense. The timing is right and the momentum built by Infosys needs to be capitalized to hurl us into the big league.

The next few years will be crucial for us and will decide where we end up. Solutions will be defined & revisited, delivery capability will be built, processes and standards will be created, new ideas and innovations will be incubated and nurtured into market leading solutions/ services.

As we stand at this important juncture, we need to ask ourselves a few questions every time we do something –

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Posted by Amit Phatak at 04:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

As Learning Services at Infosys gathers momentum, we expect our team to ask for new business from clients where we're already engaged in project work. "Repeat business" is the core of any professional services company- the relationships we have with our clients are extremely important, both sides have invested into the relationship, and the business model is most efficient if we do more business with the same client. Everyone in the team is agreed on this principle. '

There is only one problem- when should we ask our clients for additional business?

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