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211 - Needed: Learning Methodology!
August 13, 2001
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*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
e-Learning, Training and e-Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center: http://www.masie.com
Host of TechLearn 2001 - Oct 28 - 31 - Orlando, Florida
Needed: Learning Methodology!
A TechLearn 2001 Think Piece
By Elliott Masie
We hear a lot of talk about Learning Strategy and Learning Systems yet
there is little dialogue about Learning Methodology. It is time to
address the PROCESS of how our workers and customers will learn!
Learning Methodology is all about what happens the day after you buy an
e-Learning content collection, the week after you select a Learning
Management System and the year following the installation of a Virtual
Classroom. Learning Methodology defines HOW the organization will
invite, engage, tutor, instruct, assess, stimulate, simulate, remediate,
certify and enhance the performance of actual workers and customers.
As we add the new tools of the e-Learning and Collaboration worlds to
corporate training and learning departments, we have to develop a creative
and effective set of methods of how we are going to deploy these tools.
The Learning Methodology should articulate in detail what the company
believes and plans to implement in areas such as these:
Invitation: How will the learners be invited to participate in an
e-Learning or classroom event? Will there be one comprehensive
invitation, such as a course catalog or web page? Or, will departmental,
job specific or individualized invitations be deployed? And, what is the
role of the learner’s manager if they are a worker, or the learner’s sales
contact if they are a customer? Is invitation a one time process, or does
it branch to alternative strategies based on the response or mission
criticalness of the learning target?
Remediate: How will the organization provide remedial assistance if the
learner does not succeed? How will the organization know the difference
between non-completion of a learning module due to lack of interest or
content confusion? What is the role of blended learning in the
remediation process? And, who are the people responsible for remediation,
are they e-Trainers or the managers of the learner?
These issues are not addressed in detail in most Learning Strategies and
we are realizing that a large percentage of organizations that are
implementing major learning systems are only starting to face the Learning
Methodology issues after the fact.
The Learning Methodology of an organization is a great moment to bring
together a Blended Learning thinking mindset. The Methodology should span
both e-Learning and classroom as well as informal approaches to training
and performance enhancement.
At TechLearn 2001, I will present a working Mega-Session entitled Building
a Learning Methodology: The Details of Making e-Learning, Classroom and
Blended Learning in Action. If you have developed a Learning
Methodology, I would love to see it. We will also send a Learning
Methodology sample out to TRENDS readers after TechLearn 2001.
Information about TechLearn 2001 (October 28-31 in Orlando, Florida) at
http://www.techlearn.com
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
e-Learning, Training and e-Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center: http://www.masie.com
Host of TechLearn 2001 - Oct 28 - 31 - Orlando, Florida
Needed: Learning Methodology!
A TechLearn 2001 Think Piece
By Elliott Masie
We hear a lot of talk about Learning Strategy and Learning Systems yet
there is little dialogue about Learning Methodology. It is time to
address the PROCESS of how our workers and customers will learn!
Learning Methodology is all about what happens the day after you buy an
e-Learning content collection, the week after you select a Learning
Management System and the year following the installation of a Virtual
Classroom. Learning Methodology defines HOW the organization will
invite, engage, tutor, instruct, assess, stimulate, simulate, remediate,
certify and enhance the performance of actual workers and customers.
As we add the new tools of the e-Learning and Collaboration worlds to
corporate training and learning departments, we have to develop a creative
and effective set of methods of how we are going to deploy these tools.
The Learning Methodology should articulate in detail what the company
believes and plans to implement in areas such as these:
Invitation: How will the learners be invited to participate in an
e-Learning or classroom event? Will there be one comprehensive
invitation, such as a course catalog or web page? Or, will departmental,
job specific or individualized invitations be deployed? And, what is the
role of the learner’s manager if they are a worker, or the learner’s sales
contact if they are a customer? Is invitation a one time process, or does
it branch to alternative strategies based on the response or mission
criticalness of the learning target?
Remediate: How will the organization provide remedial assistance if the
learner does not succeed? How will the organization know the difference
between non-completion of a learning module due to lack of interest or
content confusion? What is the role of blended learning in the
remediation process? And, who are the people responsible for remediation,
are they e-Trainers or the managers of the learner?
These issues are not addressed in detail in most Learning Strategies and
we are realizing that a large percentage of organizations that are
implementing major learning systems are only starting to face the Learning
Methodology issues after the fact.
The Learning Methodology of an organization is a great moment to bring
together a Blended Learning thinking mindset. The Methodology should span
both e-Learning and classroom as well as informal approaches to training
and performance enhancement.
At TechLearn 2001, I will present a working Mega-Session entitled Building
a Learning Methodology: The Details of Making e-Learning, Classroom and
Blended Learning in Action. If you have developed a Learning
Methodology, I would love to see it. We will also send a Learning
Methodology sample out to TRENDS readers after TechLearn 2001.
Information about TechLearn 2001 (October 28-31 in Orlando, Florida) at
http://www.techlearn.com
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
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