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Two key characteristics of online CoPs set them apart from all other traditional methods of group collaboration. Unlike apprenticeships, brown bag lunches, or other informal methods of collaboration where information can be lost unless individuals take it upon themselves to spread knowledge, online exchanges allow you to capture, tag, and categorize information to easily search for later use. Secondly, this information can be accessed from anywhere around the world at any time.

Lessons learned about Learning Management System implementation, software training, internal marketing, and user adoption from the Training & Organizational Development manager at Multi-Chem.

With content curation, the running theme is to enlist yourself and other knowledgeable and passionate subject matter experts to filter and provide context to the resource materials that they value the most—trusting that your knowledge also will provide value to others interested in the same subject. Then the communities and portals we develop and support will become sought out as trusted sources of sustainable learning and performance in their own right.

Real training requires more than binary feedback. But how can such complication be reproduced in elearning?

Imagine a time when learners actively come to a learning community we have built and nurtured, and pull exactly the learning they need at the time and place they need it. Effective delivery of such curated learning content will require new tools, strategies, and technologies that force us to think outside of the boundaries of the e-learning course and the corporate LMS and go far beyond the link-sharing tools used on the Web.

One noteworthy conversation from a week of discussion on Training’s LinkedIn Group.

Training 2012Conference & Expo speaker Vicki Halsey created ENGAGE, a new six-step model designed to revolutionize traditional workplace learning and teaching. Based on art and science—from Vicki Halsey’s thirty-five years of teaching experience to the most recent discoveries in neuroscience—the ENGAGE Model has a core purpose: to design learning that brings out people’s innate brilliance, drives action, and delivers results.

Whirlpool University leveraged the opportunity of marketplace-driven circumstances to create the “Closed Loop Learning Method.” This method integrates: the power of the online learning environment, face-to-face classroom, application of skills, and the employee’s manager.

Cognizant created a learning application—the iPad Sales GYM application—based on the principles of collaborative learning with a focus on performance enhancement.

The latest products and services launching in the training industry.

To keep employees operating at peak performance levels, corporations must recognize the benefits of on-the-job instruction that occurs before, during, and after the learning event. To deliver training with a real impact on the company’s bottom line, knowledge of strategy and tactics is no longer enough—continuous learning is essential.

Looking back on the years of trial and error with learning transfer, what stands out the most is that participants, managers, and stakeholders all want their investment of time and effort to pay off—everyone wants to see real results. That means making learning transfer practical and tactical, easy through automation, actionable through using both push and pull strategies, and carefully planned.