Rants, Raves, and Reflections: A Collection of Passionate and Professional Perspectives

Learning Rants, Raves, and Reflections......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
Audience......Page 14
How This Book Is Organized......Page 15
Key Terms......Page 16
Resources......Page 17
LEARNING RANTS, RAVES, AND REFLECTIONS......Page 19
Rants......Page 23
Raves......Page 29
Reflections......Page 33
Part One: Here, Now . . . or Arriving on the Scene Very Soon......Page 35
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND NEXT GENERATION BLENDED LEARNING......Page 39
What Is Operational Excellence?......Page 40
How Does Blended Learning Factor into Operational Excellence?......Page 42
Creating a Blended Learning Process and Infrastructure to Support Operational Excellence......Page 44
Launching and Tracking Blended Learning Solutions......Page 47
Learning Challenges and Applying Knowledge Within the Blended Learning Model......Page 48
Successful Blended Learning Solutions......Page 51
How Do You, as a Learning Leader, Become Involved in Operational Excellence Initiatives?......Page 52
Why Do We Have So Much Training?......Page 55
A Revelation? Hardly.......Page 57
Dining with Executives......Page 61
Executive Sponsorship......Page 63
What Is the Social Contract?......Page 65
Why Does the “Old” Social Contract No Longer Apply?......Page 66
Corporate Expectations and the Social Contract......Page 69
Individual Expectations and the Social Contract......Page 70
A Solution......Page 72
Partnerships—What I Expect......Page 75
What a Partnership Is Not......Page 76
Change Is Painful......Page 78
What a Vendor Can Do......Page 80
Take the Partnership Pledge......Page 81
WE THOUGHT WE COULD, WE THINK WE CAN, AND LESSONS ALONG THE WAY......Page 85
Toys Are Us......Page 87
The Nine Lives of Instructional Design......Page 92
The World According to . . .......Page 95
A Mile in My Shoes......Page 97
And in the End......Page 99
MESSING WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE......Page 101
We Know a Lot About Learning......Page 103
What’s in a Definition?......Page 105
From Efficiency to Transformation......Page 106
Toward Transformation......Page 108
THE BLUE PILL OR THE RED PILL?......Page 111
Blue Pill or Red Pill; Why Should You Care?......Page 113
Blue Pill/Red Pill #1: Copyright and Patent Law......Page 114
Blue Pill/Red Pill #2:......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 129
PEOPLE ARCHITECTURE......Page 133
The Overview: Building from the Foundation Up......Page 134
Engineering and Managing the Materials and Measures......Page 136
Providing Balance Through the Final Architectural Dimensions......Page 144
Part Two: In Practice Perspectives . . . The Art of Organizational implementation......Page 147
GRASSROOTS CORPORATE e-LEARNING COLLABORATION WORKS!......Page 151
Phase 1: Started Informal e-Learning Collaboration, Problem Solving, and Knowledge-Sharing Sessions......Page 152
Phase 2: Established a More Formal Knowledge-Sharing Forum: The Corporate e-Learning Forum......Page 156
Phase 3: Reinstated Separate Problem-Solving/Knowledge-Sharing Meetings: The Corporate e-Learning Working Group......Page 158
Phase 4: Established a Small Group with Higher-Level Representation to Determine and Address Strategic Corporate e-Learning Concerns: The Corporate e-Learning Advisory Council......Page 160
Summary......Page 163
LEARNING IN AN ON-DEMAND WORLD......Page 165
The “On-Demand” Enterprise......Page 166
The Next Generation Workforce......Page 167
Blended Learning for Impact......Page 168
Looking Ahead......Page 171
Summary......Page 175
A First Foray into CBT......Page 177
Another Attempt at CBT......Page 179
Getting the Right People Together......Page 180
Project Implementation......Page 181
Conclusion......Page 182
Value Proposition for e-Learning......Page 185
Global Challenges......Page 186
Globalization and Localization......Page 187
Benefits and Measurable Results of Localization......Page 189
A Hamburger Is a Hamburger Is a Hamburger......Page 191
Training Via Simulation......Page 193
The Power of Practice......Page 196
The Value of Analysis......Page 197
Gaming......Page 198
The Value of Simulations......Page 202
Conclusion......Page 203
IT’S IN THE AIR......Page 207
Today......Page 208
Examples......Page 212
Opportunities......Page 219
Tomorrow......Page 221
Part Three: Preparing Ourselves, Our People, and Our Organizations for the Future......Page 225
Predicting Advances in Technology......Page 227
Pinpointing the Patterns of New Learning Technologies......Page 231
INTO THE FUTURE OF meLearning......Page 261
Introduction......Page 262
The Vision: What, Why......Page 263
Analogies for Understanding......Page 271
Transforming Vision into Reality......Page 275
Strategies for Grand Challenge Number 1 (EVERY): Scaling Up from “Any” to EVERY......Page 280
Strategies for Grand Challenge Number 2 (ONE): Scaling DOWN from “EVERY” to “Just Right” for ONE......Page 289
Strategies for Grand Challenge Number 3 (LEARNING): Readiness to Respond to Every “Learning Moment”: Faster, Better, Cheaper!......Page 300
Conclusion......Page 305
About the Editor......Page 309
About the Authors......Page 311
Index......Page 319