Session Title: What if Amazon and Google Partnered to Build an LMS?

 

Session Number: 646

 

Room: Yucatan 3

 

Day and Timeslot: Tuesday - 11:15am to 12:15pm

 

Formats: Discussion

 

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Session Description: Many great tools for creating and sharing information exist, but were not created for learning and training purposes. What if some of these companies who have "gotten it right" could create tools that we in learning departments need to use? Join this open discussion and group design session on alternative learning systems and tools.

 

• Ideal company and tool combinations
• Innovative learning system functions
• Experimental delivery methods

 

Led by: Sally Boyd - Schlumberger

 

After more than twenty years in Information Technology, Sally Boyd decided her career was not achieving the goals she envisioned. Sally returned to school and earned a Masters Degree in Education with a focus on Training and Development. Currently, she is the Training Manager for Infrastructure Services and the Training and Technology Manager for Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS). This dual management role provides the opportunity to both plan and implement significant training initiatives.

 

 

 

 

 

Session Notes

 

Here are the brainstorming notes from the flip chart. 

I should mention also that we have a participant from Google who took good notes to share with her company!  I take that as a positive.  :-)

 

• Web-based/customized "home pages" (such as iGoogle or Sharepoint)
  • web parts
  • RSS feeds
• Platform to mark interests - has dynamic info
  • Profile/Job Categories
  • Tagging
• Personal Knowledge Base
• Commission-based virtual Classroom
• Built-in incentive to use
  • Sense of community
• How many people are needed for a Community?
  • it's a cultural thing [meaning, I think that the number of people will depend on the culture]
• Have a front-end portal to the LMS
  • Tie in with Communities of Practice
• System of mentors
  • with a search mechanism
• Think of the Training Function like a "News Room"
• Wikipedia-like
  • Focused wikis within business units
  • To share best practices
  • Sharepoint with a wiki
• Use Google Docs and Spreadsheets
  • Internal or External
  • Other Collaborative online tools:  Thinkature, Eyespot, Brain Honey, Fauxto
• Whatever you use should be innovative and easy -- Trust is important
• What is useful, what is used?  (e.g. Digg, Technorati, Amazon)
  • How do we see this?
  • Tagging (again ;-)
  • Viral Marketing
• Rating Systems
• Modular / Plug-ins (ala Mozilla?)
• Training Organization provides the editorial function (this goes back to the idea of the Training Org as News Room)
  • Tracking, Archiving is needed
  • Transparent (shouldn't need SCORM)
    • includes an authoring system
  • Search for:  "2014 EPIC" and read the associated article.  If you replace "news" with "learning" the concept is the same.
• Sharing as a corporate culture
  • Give attention to SME's egos
• Onlin EPSS

 

I invite everyone who attended to supplement this with their notes (via the comments option)

 

Thanks to all who attended

 

Sally Boyd

 

 

 

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