Nano Learning: Designing Content for the Nano World

What is the equivalent of Nano-Technology in the Learning world?  Nano means small or miniature.  Most of our learning design is for medium to large size events and projects.  A day long class, an hour long e-Learning module.  Yet, most learners need small and very personalized learning moments throughout the course of a day, week, month of year. 

Elliott Masie provides a 15 minute text, Audio and PodCast on the possibility of Nano-Learning.  How can we add the wisdom of instructional design and/or performance support to small and very targeted projects?  How can learning be designed by designers or others to add power to informal content and context segments. 

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Nano Learning: Designing Content for the Nano World

Interview with Chiarra Succi - e-Learning Research in Switzerland and Italy

Learning Update from the Czech Republic

I recently interviewed a learning colleagues, Vladka Knehova, from the Czech Republic on the state of learning innovation in her country.  We talked for about 12 minutes on topics that included:

• Learning Innovation in Countries with Scare Resources
• Learning Models
• e-Learning Adoption (or non-adoption)
• Future Hopes and Aspirations

This is the first in a series of interviews with our international colleagues - aimed at sharing perspectives from around the world.

Learning Update from Czech Republic - Interview with Vladka Knehova - Text, Audio and PodCast

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Learning in the Czech Republic

Flash Drives and Learning

Take one of those small USB Flash Drives and think about how it can be leveraged as a part of your Learning Delivery.  I have just finished a 9 minute content segment on the potential for using these inexpensive Flash Drives in a very different way to extend the reach of organizational learning programs.

Listen, Download or Read the Segment:

This is a 9 minute Audio, PodCast and Text Transcript.
Flash Drives and Learning:

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Flash Drives and Learning

Saba Buys Centra:  Flash News & Instant Interview

Saba has agreed to purchase Centra.  This is the latest in the combinations of e-Learning and Learning Systems companies in our changing space.

I just finished interviewing the heads of Saba and Centra, Bobby Yazdani and Leon Navitikas.  This is a 10 minute interview:

Saba Buys Centra

Saba Buys Centra - Interview with CEO's

Title: Interview with Frances Hesselbein: The Nature of Leadership

Frances Hesselbein is the Chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute.  She is a co-editor of the Drucker Foundation Future Series, The Community of the Future, The Organization of the Future, and the best-selling The Leader of the Future, which has been translated into sixteen languages.  Elliott Masie interviews Frances about the nature of leadership, the role of leadership training and the impact of values on leaders and the organization.  This is a fascinating 15 minute conversation with the winner of the Predential Medal of Honor and one of the keynoters at Learning 2005.

Interview with Frances Hesselbein
 

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Interview With Frances Hesselbein

Title Podcast on How to Podcast: By Elliott Masie

We have received hundreds of requests of details on how we are doing these simple and low-cost podcast/audio/text segments.  So, why not do a podcast on podcasting.  In this 10 minute segment, Elliott Masie details:

• Podcasting 101
• What  Equipment and Software
• How to Record Telephone Interviews
• Posting Podcasts without IT help or Servers
• Transcriptions Done Easily
• The Future of Podcasts and Learning

This is a 10 minute Audio, PodCast and Text Transcript.
Podcast on How to Podcast: By Elliott Masie

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All About Podcasts

An Interview with John Abele, Founder Chairman, Boston Scientific: Audio, PodCast and Text Transcript.

Hear a learning viewpoint from the Chairman's perspective.  John Abele, is Founder Chairman of Boston Scientific, a publicly traded company, provides these unique insights:

* A View of Learning from the Top of Organizations
* Learning and Shareholder Value
* The Health Field:  Challenges and Needs for Learning Innovation

John Abele is an influential corporate leader.  It is fascinating to hear his perspectives on both the role of learning in the corporation and his take on the need for new learning models in the health care process.  This is an 11 minute Audio, Podcast & Transcript

Interview with John Abele

Chairman's View of Learning & Health/Learning Challenges

Report from Chief Learning Officer Symposium

Elliott Masie provides a live report from the Chief Learning Officers Conference now happening in California.  He reports on the issues being discussed in the sessions and at the coffee tables including:

• Alignment
• Speed and Velocity
• Low Buzz on Technology Procurement
• Outsourcing Trends
• Competencies

Organizational Change & Learning:

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Report from Chief Learning Officer Symposium

Organizational Change & Learning is the focus of an interview with Beth Thomas, Chief Learning Officer at Sequent.  Beth details the close relationship between  major change processes in organizations and the role for the learning function.  She highlights these issues:

• Using Learning as a Key Tool for Mergers and Evolutions
• Getting Learning to the "Head Table" for Large Scale Organizational Change
• The Language of Learning and the Language of Change
• Mapping Learning to Changed Processes
• How Learning Departments Give Away Their Power

Beth is one of the most experienced and influential CLO's in the country, with background at The Limited and Bank One.  She is the author of a chapter in Learning Rants, Raves & Reflections and will be leading the Learning 2005 On-Boarding Activities.  This is a 10 minute Audio, PodCast and Text Transcript.
Organizational Change & Learning:

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Organizational Change & Learning: Interview with Beth Thomas, CLO

The Changing Social Contract & Learning is powerful.  Murry Christensen, Dean of Learning 2005 and a senior learning executive, builds a compelling business case for how employee's and employers have a very different social contract about work, career, development and commitment.  Elliott Masie interviews him on these dimensions:

• From Careers to Shorter Term Jobs
• Implications for Learning and Development
• Creating Leaders More Rapidly
• Assumptions about Employee Self-Management of Development

Murry expands on his article in Learning: Rants, Raves and Reflections in this 9 minute audio interview, PodCast and text transcript:

Changing Social Contract and Learning:

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A New Social Contract for Learning: Interview with Murry Christensen

Design Perspectives in the World of Learning: Interview with Brent Schlenker - Learning 2005 Participant: Audio, PodCast and Text Transcript
This is the first of our Learning 2005 Participant Podcasts.  Brent Schlenker is a Learning Specialist with a high technology Fortune 50 company.  He is an opinionated learning professinoal with a passion for design.  Elliott Masie interviews him for 9 minutes on these topics:


* Why Do We Accept Page Turners as a Design?
* What Do Learners Want from Design?
* Visual Standards and Patterns for e-Learning.
* The Role of Learners in Content Creation.
Design Perspectives in the World of Learning: Interview with Brent Schlenker
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Interview with Brent Schlenker

Learning Sandboxes: Tools for Innovation: Audio, PodCast & Text Transcript

Learning departments and functions can create a "Sandbox" to experiment and innovate with new models of training, learning and collaboration.  Elliott Masie explores how organizations are using a "Sandbox" to:

• Experiment with the role of PodCasts for learning and development.
• Approaches to using Wiki and Blog models for content creation.
• Tips for Creating a Sandbox with ZERO dollars.
• Sandbox Models for Classroom Innovation
• The Role of a Sandbox as a Research and Development Tool

This is a short, 9 minute content segment.

Learning Sandboxes: Tools for Innovation
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Learning Sandboxes: Tools for Innovation

Interview with Rick Gilbert - Talking to the "Big Dogs" - Audio, PodCast & Text Transcript

Learning professionals occasionally have to present to the "Big Dogs", the folks in the "C" suite and the top levels of management.  Rick Gilbert, author of "Talking to the Big Dogs" was recently interviewed  (9 minutes) by Elliott Masie on this topic.  Rick provides perspective on:

• Myths about Presenting to Top Level Executives
• What They Want - What You Need to Do to Prepare
• Tips for Quick Presentations to "Big Dogs"
• Our Own Challenges

Rick Gilbert Interview - Talking to the "Big Dogs"

Personalization & Learning Interview with Wayne Hodgins - Audio, PodCast and Text Segment (NEW)

Wayne Hodgins is a Learning & Strategic Futurist with AutoDesk and the leading advocate of learning standards and transformation.   Elliott Masie caught up with Wayne this week in Florida and did a 12 minute interview focused on the critical challenge of adding Personalization to Learning Content.  Wayne addresses these key issues:

• Why Personalize Content?
• Who Personalizes the Content:  Designers, Learners, Managers or Systems
• Challenges for Content Personalization
• The Future of Personalization of Content

Personalization of Learning - Wayne Hodgins Interview

Buying Learning? Procurement Challenges & RFP Problems! - Audio, PodCast and Text Segment (NEW)

Elliott Masie provides a free 16 minute content segment (and RANT!) about the challenges of the Learning Marketplace.  Buyers and Suppliers of learning content, systems and services are often frustrated by the current state of the marketplace.   Elliott addresses these key issues:

• RFP (Request for Proposal) Problems! - Moving from a low-value checklist to a Scenario based Request for Information
• Shopping and Scouting for Learning Solutions
• Vendor Management
• Due Diligence in the Learning Marketplace.

Buying Learning? Procurement Challenges & RFP Problems!"

Social Networking & The World of Learning: A 7 minute audio streamed or PodCast audio segment (or text transcript) with Elliott Masie.

Social Networking tools, techniques and technologies will be evolving within our organizations.   The learning field has an opportunity and perhaps responsibility to sponsor, direct, manage and integrate diverse Social Networking capacities from these areas:

• Collaboration Arena (email, instant messenger, web conferencing, groupware)
• Knowledge Management
• Talent Management

How do we assist our employees in building and sustaining effective networking with other employees (and perhaps customers or even ex-employees) across global enterprises.

Social Networking & The World of Learning

Dan Pink Interview - author of "A Whole Mind - Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age" Audio, PodCast or Text Transcript: A 12 minute audio streamed or PodCast audio segment (or text transcript) with Dan Pink on:

Dan Pink Interview: "A Whole Mind"

SME Burnout - Subject Matter Experts Exhausted - Audio & PodCast: A 10 minute audio streamed or PodCast audio segment by Elliott Masie on:

Subject Matter Expert Burnout

Learning Challenges in the Developing World: Linda English, Save the Children - Audio & PodCast: An 8 minute audio streamed or PodCast interview with Linda English, learning officer with Save the Children.  Elliott Masie asks Linda to discuss:

Learning Challenges in the Developing World