How to leverage a Network: What I Learned in 2007

The Learning Circuit’s Blog Big Question of the Month. What did I learn about learning in 2007? I learned so much it is hard to get it down to a couple of things. This blog probably captures a lot of what I learned.

Some things that really sunk in for me include:

• the way that the network presents information and opportunities that simply cannot exist in any other format
• the power of social networks to enable the "discovery" phase of learning
• that RSS is a powerful tool for improving information flow, which directly supports learning

I am sure there are so many more, but there are a couple.

LC: The Big Question

Learning Circuits' big question for February is 'what questions should we be asking?'. I don't like this one, but here goes.

1. How can we make the assessment of learning really, really easy?
2. How can we create a networked user environment that enables a learner to grab just the right thing (knowledge, experience, conversation, simulaton ) that gives them what they need?
3. How can we really start to use all the existing data that we already have about learners to improve their learning quest?

I guess these are a few questions I think we should be asking.

The Big Question for Jan

What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?

So... my response... I'm not sure exactly how address the trade-offs. My experience is that every elearning project has some trade-offs, resources, time, money, energy, passion. The trade-offs between quality and speed is a tough question. I understand where the question comes from, our organizations are operating with real-time data and agility and flexibility is critical. So I guess if your "quality" learning program is not ready in time to educate your organization and the opportunity to improve performance passes, then it is not really a "quality" learning program. Right? On the flip side, if you decide your organization needs project management training and you create a power point stack that is accurate, but they don't comprehend any of the information and therefore don't change their behaviors in any way. You "rapid" e-learning is probably really poor quality.

So our challenge is to see were the speed requirement intersects with the quality requirement and execute.

Note: I didn't read the others response... Maybe I will now and reflect some more.




Others Ideas

Tom Haskins	growing changing learning creating	The politics of quality	09-Jan-2007
Tony Karrer	eLearning Tech	Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed	09-Jan-2007
Matthew Nehrling	mLearning-World	The Tao of Design	09-Jan-2007
Wendy	In The Middle of the Curve	Trading Off	10-Jan-2007
Clive Shepherd	Clive on Learning	The big question for January: quality v speed	10-Jan-2007
Howard Cronin	e-Training in the Trenches	Big Question - January 2007	10-Jan-2007
Karyn Romeis	Karyn's Blog	The big question for January: speed v quality	10-Jan-2007
Clark Quinn	Learnlets	January's 'big' Question	10-Jan-2007
Karl Kapp	Kapp Notes	Rapid E-Learning Trade-Offs	10-Jan-2007
Donald Clark	Big Dog, Little Dog	Knowledge & Learning in the News	11-Jan-2007
David Wilson	Learning Reflections	The Big Question - Rapid or Quality	11-Jan-2007