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Doug Harward is CEO and Founder of TrainingIndustry.com, the author of The Business of Learning blog and a 25 year veteran in the training field. In this podcast, Doug discusses the changes taking place in a rapidly evolving corporate learning environment.

Doug believes that both the economic crisis and the globalization of all business have fundamentally altered how we manage training services and deliver learning content worldwide. He notes that nearly every organization outsources some aspect of their training operations and offers us a set of best practices on how to determine what should be outsourced and how to select the right partners. Doug also shares with us TrainingIndustry.com’s insight on corporate spend for learning technologies in the coming years – he sees authoring platforms and portals for the aggregation of user-generated content achieving the most growth. He also shares with us his predictions for corporate training in 2010.

     Technorati Tags: authoring platforms, delivery platforms, learning portals, learning technologies, training operations, training outsourcing

Michael Hanley is an independent Learning and Development Consultant with a special focus in the field of eLearning. He is the author of the E-Learning Curve blog where he has dedicated a significant time to open-source and standards-based technologies. In this podcast, he discusses the role of standards in learning.

According to Michael Hanley, it is unrealistic to expect that at this point innovation waves or “disruptive technologies” will interoperate with content management and delivery platforms organizations currently use. Digging into standards, Michael explains the importance of understanding the distinction between de facto and accredited standards and talks about his belief that conforming to ISO certifications reflects the professionalism of learning companies. Finally, in order to surpass the disconnect between learning professionals and vendors when it comes to learning standards requirements, Michael gives out his own set of advice on what questions purchasers need to prepare and ask to their vendors.

     Technorati Tags: disruptive technology, e-learning, ISO, Michael Hanley, SCORM, standards

Ellen Wagner is a Partner and Principal Analyst for Sage Road Solutions and she is also author of the eLearning Roadtrip blog, where she is exploring issues related to innovation and learning technology adoption. In this podcast, Ellen discusses the challenges instructional designers face on their way to becoming Learning Technologists.

Ellen explains how the role of instructional designers has changed along with the change in people’s dependence on technology. The new role of instructional designers requires skills for bridging both learning and technology as well as understanding how to create engaging learning experiences. Ellen is also addressing the role of new technologies in social learning and mobile learning. She is discussing why social media are here to stay and how the infrastructure for mobile learning is more mature today so as to change how learners and corporations feel about a new emerging mobile learning world.

Also, in a bonus part, Ellen Wagner shares her best practices for designing reusable learning content.

     Technorati Tags: Ellen Wagner, instructional design, learning technologist, mobile learning

Ellen Wagner is picking up the discussion from her podcast on Becoming a Learning Technologist, and she is tackling the issue of learning content reusability. She is recommending, from an instructional designer’s point of view, a set of best practices when designing learning content for reuse. The end goal is for content to be developed once and assembled and delivered at the moment of need via the most appropriate channel for the learner, be it ILT, e-learning, m-learning, and so on.

     Technorati Tags: Ellen Wagner, instructional design, learning content, Learning Objects, reusability, reusable content

The Internet Time Alliance is a newly branded international think tank formed by six training industry luminaries: Harold Jarche, Jay Cross, Clark Quinn, Charles Jennings, Jane Hart, and Jon Husband. In this podcast, we talk to four of the principals about this unique initiative and their perspectives on collaborative and social learning in the workplace.

This dream team aims high and isn’t afraid to turn conventional thinking on its head in order to help training organizations innovate. As far as the Internet Time Alliance is concerned, we are seeing the end of the training department as we knew it only a few years ago. As work becomes more complex, training is now less about developing content and more about developing networks.

The team discusses that while CLOs recognize that they have to embrace networks, informal learning, and social technologies, there are still a number of misconceptions and obstacles that prevent collaborative learning from being an organic part of the enterprise training infrastructure. Once these social initiatives are embraced however, CLOs and their training organizations are poised to have equal or even greater footing than other executives in the C-suite.

This podcast is broken up into 5 parts. Each part comprises a panel discussion around a specific topic. This post is part I. Listen to the discussion below or jump next to part II.

- Can you each tell us a little bit about the Internet Time Alliance initiative and how you manage collaboration and knowledge sharing within the group?

     Technorati Tags: Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, CLO, collaborative learning, Harold Jarche, informal learning, Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross, learning networks, social media

This podcast is broken up into 5 parts. Each part comprises a panel discussion around a specific topic. This post is part II. Listen to the discussion below or jump back to part I or next to part III.

- From your recent survey, 3 out of 4 CLOs admitted that their people could not keep up with the needs of their business. Is it that these CLOs are incapable of coping with today’s business environment? Are we seeing the end of the training department as we know it?

     Technorati Tags: Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, CLO, collaborative learning, Harold Jarche, informal learning, Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross, learning networks, social media

This podcast is broken up into 5 parts. Each part comprises a panel discussion around a specific topic. This post is part III. Listen to the discussion below or jump back to part II or next to part IV.

- What do you think the key enablers are for collaborative learning to become truly embraced in a corporate setting as opposed to something that’s done at grassroots level?

     Technorati Tags: Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, CLO, collaborative learning, Harold Jarche, informal learning, Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross, learning networks, social media

This podcast is broken up into 5 parts. Each part comprises a panel discussion around a specific topic. This post is part IV. Listen to the discussion below or jump back to part III or next to part V.

- There is still a level of discomfort with the use of social media within corporate environments, training included. As far as CLOs are concerned, do you think that this is a mentality issue, a process issue, or a technology issue?

     Technorati Tags: Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, CLO, collaborative learning, Harold Jarche, informal learning, Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross, learning networks, social media

This podcast is broken up into 5 parts. Each part comprises a panel discussion around a specific topic. This post is part V. Listen to the discussion below or jump back to part IV.

- Do you feel that we are on our way to integrating learning as an equal within enterprise, both at a functional & personnel level and at an enterprise application level?

     Technorati Tags: Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, CLO, collaborative learning, Harold Jarche, informal learning, Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross, learning networks, social media

Lars Hyland is the Director of Learning Services at Brightwave and author of the Lars is Learning blog. In this podcast, he discusses the use of learning portals in the workplace.

Lars’ perspective is that training is focused too strongly on delivery rather than learning effectiveness. As a result, training can lack relevance to individual learners. This applies to both traditional instructor-led courses and e-learning. Lars discusses how organizations such as Sky, the leading provider of digital television services in the UK and Ireland, are leveraging learning portals to improve time to competence for new employees by closing the communication and support chasm between an employee’s recruitment and the first day in a new role. Lars also explains how learning portals and LMSs can co-exist to provide the best of both worlds – contextual interfaces and centralized reporting.

     Technorati Tags: Lars Hyland, learning portals, LMS, workplace training

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