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FranklinCovey Blog | Online Learning
It’s time to start thinking differently about learning
We recently saw a tweet come across our learning lab that read, “Reading one good books makes you a lot smarter than skimming over 3,000 RSS feeds. (via @gapingvoid).”
While on the surface this comment makes logical sense and rings true to everything we have always been taught. Beware! Things are changing. Books are by no means the only source of credible information anymore. Relevant and proven learning fragments can also be accessed online. And RSS feeds are just one learning strategy you can engage to make that information come to you.
So, in answer to this tweet we simply state, it depends. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
How To Increase Your Professional Online Presence (POP)
Just recently we were asked for interviewing tips by two separate individuals. On further review neither had much of a Professional Online Presence (POP). In today’s competitive and technologically savvy world having a POP is essential. There is so much a potential employer can learn about candidates, and so much opportunities for candidates to share about their qualifications and skills. So, think of this short post as a beginners guide to creating an effective POP.
A good place to start would be with LinkedIn. Get as many people as you can, preferably people who you have worked with, to recommend you, and write a positive review. Then join some relevant groups, and enquire about jobs, and look for job postings. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
What GoldiLocks Can Teach Us About Learning
In the fable of Goldilocks and the Three Bears we learn about a young girl who wants everything “just right.” Throughout the story she is faced with several choices, which she tests and tries, and eventually settles on the choices that are right for her. Does this sound familiar?
This Goldilocks Principle is how people are choosing to learn. With the Learning Explosion taking place all around us we too are faced with an endless array of learning choices. If we want to learn about ferrofluid, we can Google it, view a informative video on YouTube, read a book on it, or attend a live or virtual classroom. Like Goldilocks we can find information that is just right for our specific needs. If we don’t need the entire history of ferrofluid we don’t have to have it force fed to us in a hour long classroom. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
Click here to follow Matt and Treion on Twitter.
Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Be Patient With Technology
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
Click here to follow Matt and Treion on Twitter.
Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
3 Principles Learning Professionals Should Steal From Advertisers
One of the simplest concepts in any marketing or advertising strategy are the 3 M’s: Market, Message, Media.
When you are trying to communicate to another person, or group of people — whether it’s in a corporate training situation or in advertising — consider these three key elements to get your point across.
1. Market: You need to know to whom you are speaking. Who are they? What are their interests? What is their background? What are their problems you can solve? Learn as much about them as possible before you even begin to develop your training workshop. You don’t want to get 80% of the way through development and realize you’ve missed the key needs of your learners. Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
To learn: Just add water.
We live in a compressed world. Everything around us seems so tightly wound or packed so tightly that it’s hard to see how it can make a difference. Is there anything in that tightly packed wrapper? Perhaps you’ve seen your kids delight when they place a “magic capsule” in water and it expands into a sponge animal or dinosaur.
In a very real sense, this is one way learning is being delivered. Consider Twitter for instance. 140 characters. What can you do with that? (By the way this paragraph was 140 characters!) Read more…
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Please, let’s recycle (knowledge).
Google has essentially become a recycling bin for our memories. If you need to learn something, you search for things that someone else has discovered, processed and shared.
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Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com
Online Learning’s Day Has Come!
We are perplexed when people talk with us about how they think online learning or e-learning is dramatically inferior to in-person training. “It will never be widely adopted,” they scoff!
In many cases, e-learning has become commoditized and quality does tend to suffer. But we have seen a dramatic shift in technology that allows for the development of high-quality online training. So, when will online learning be categorized as anything other than sub-par?
- When Fortune 500 companies embrace it? [click for proof]
- When live online instruction can be as engaging as that done live in-person? [click for proof]
- When learners choose it over other training methods? [click for proof]
- When the most powerful universities embrace it? [click for proof]
We believe the tide has turned and that online learning is quickly becoming recognized as more powerful, more engaging and more accepted than face-to-face instruction.
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller
Learn more about their book The Learning eXPLOSION at: http://thelearningexplosion.blogspot.com/
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InSights On Demand are short 20-to-30 minute courses designed to help individuals learn at their own pace at a time that’s convenient to them. Each of the 63 courses starts with one of FranklinCovey’s Hollywood-quality videos followed by introspective questions, a take-away summary and a goal setting form.
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When we say global, we mean it.
For the first time ever, when we say “global” we really mean “global”. I remember the first day we conducted a webinar with a group of people from Korea. The following week we held one with people from Germany. Then Australia. Then Brazil. I specifically remember when we conducted a webinar that had people joined from four continents simultaneously. It was like magic.
But now it’s almost become commonplace. Not a day goes by when webinars are not being attended by someone sitting in another part of the world. All that’s required is an internet connection.
In 2008 23.9% of the world was connected to the internet—up from 12.5% just five years earlier. This means 1.58 billion people have access to the Internet. Iceland leads the globe with 90% of their population with an internet connection. However that’s less than 300,000 people. Compare that with China who has only 22% of their population connected equaling 300 million users. (Here’s a great resource we found to see the percentage of each country’s population that have access to the web: http://tinyurl.com/countries-internet)
The world is getting wired very, very fast. You can now reach a global audience rapidly, effectively, and cost effectively. Your training efforts can be expanded to people you typically could never have reached before. Put on a global mindset and try and reach beyond your physical borders. You can now teach those distributed workers that live on nearly every corner of the globe.
Have you conducted a webinar to a someone outside your own country? What went right? What went wrong?
Authors: Matt Murdoch and Treion Muller