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Feb 18

2010

Niche Learning

Posted by Jodi Harrison in eLearning Solution, eLearning Software, Business eLearning, Academic eLearning

What if your company has a HUGH enterprise LMS but it doesn’t meet your needs?

What if you have tried talking to IT about your needs but never get any response?

How do you still meet your objectives without completely going out side of your organization structure?

Have you thought about “Niche-Learning” a wholly self-contained solution that integrates with the enterprise that has all the LMS functionality you need, including blended learning, social learning and possibly eCommerce?

Could you dare?

Managing learning is now critical to your department’s success; if you can’t get what you need from IT or your current LMS what do you, give up? The niche LMS offers a more pragmatic route as your solution.

By using an integrated eLearning and social learning software as a solution you are able to provide online materials around key ideas or practices and provide forums for communities of practice to share ideas and points of view in real-time.

A “Niche Learning” solution provides a single platform for your program participants to schedule, manage, track and report on a wide variety of topics and areas. Think beyond straight education; think about community collaboration to support all of your programs or objectives. Participants can share knowledge and gain access to insights from peers and subject matter experts.

If what you need to do is:

Access information anytime and anywhere
Lower costs and increase market reach
Easy to use and administer securely
Build active online learning communities
Learners, Peers, Instructors, and SME can easily share information and collaborate
Facilitate group interaction

The ability to incorporate Web 2.0 social learning technology into and outside the workplace is redefining the learning experiences while still integrating with the enterprises LMS. Now, learners, instructors and administrators can share information and ideas faster and easier than ever before with the use of TOPYX’s technology. The use of TOPYX’s technology facilitates participants’ aptitude to interact and share ideas, fosters collaborative skills and develops a community of partners to meet the challenges of the new global landscape.

A bit of TOPYX facts –

eLearning Software Affordable subscription price

Unlimited users & content

- No per seat fee

Implementation included

Single User Sign-on

Discrete User Groups

Upgrades for life included

- No maintenance fee

Mobile learning available

To learn more about “Niche Learning” applications join us:

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/273414881
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Jodi Harrison
Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners
Interactyx Limited

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Feb 08

2010

Sell Content Online 24/7 with the TOPYX Online Learning Center For Free – Start today!

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

You are invited to make your content available for sale on the TOPYX® Online Learning Center (the "OLC") free of charge. TOPYX is known for the social eLearning software solutions for businesses, academic institutions, associations and for eCommerce opportunities. Now, we are making the same great tools available for anyone to participate and reap the benefits of our software... with no capital outlay, no programming, and no long wait to get started.

TOPYXolc™ will accept content providers looking to sell their content online and reach their market better by incorporating the latest social learning tools. http://www.interactyx.com/eLearning/Request-OLC.html

The TOPYX platform, which is a social eLearning software solution for businesses, academic institutions, and associations, is now accessible by the learner directly. The content owner sets the price and can start selling almost immediately. The TOPYXolc creates a new online selling channel for content owners around the world, and provides the benefits social eLearning software available to enhance market reach, improve customer retention and open up lines of communication and collaboration.

The TOPYXolc is a very exciting opportunity for anyone to better position their materials online to increase the ability to sell to and directly communicate with their market. Learn more at two exciting sessions:

Fri, Feb 12, 2010 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

Wed, Feb 17, 2010 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Jodi Harrison
Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners
Interactyx Limited

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Dec 16

2009

Anytime, Anywhere – Informal learning spurred on by technology

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, mLearning, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

The web is spoiling us when it comes to learning. If we want to know the exact words to an obscure song or quote a search engine will deliver the answer in seconds. There are video tutorials on YouTube for just about anything you can dream or think up. And if you have question that can’t be answered through search, you can drop your question on Twitter or Facebook and sure enough a few of your followers or friends will have ideas.

Given the instant-gratification nature this kind of “informal learning” in which the teachers are your peers, perhaps it’s not surprising that corporate learning is trending away from structure courses delivered by traditional learning management systems. Bersin’s Corporate Learning Factbook 2009 found that across all companies surveyed the total number of formal training hours consumed per learner in 2008 was down more than 45 percent from 2006. What’s more his Learning Management Systems 2009 study reported that at least 70 percent of learning occurs through interactions with peers, managers and experts. “This is huge” says Bersin. “… (the) LMS is not going to go away, but how it’s use is going to become very different.”

This is not to say that all training is going to become casual education the key will be in finding the tools that allow you to marry informal and formal learning. The key will be integration – integration of learning has to fit into an employee’s workflow, it has to be a natural feel meaning it looks and works like the tools they are already using. There isn’t just one way to approach learning it has to be flexible for all parties to gather, interact and learn. From a business perspective learning also needs to be easy-to-use, efficient and engaging.

To learn more about an LMS that is already doing this, visit us at www.interactyx.com and see TOPYX!

Jodi Harrison

Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners

Interactyx Limited

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Nov 03

2009

Training for the Ages

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, mLearning, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

Many of us have a workforce filled with a mix of baby Boomers, Traditionalists and Generation X & Y and this means Training Departments need to tailor technology in training and delivery very carefully. Seeking input on how workers view your training resources is important. Have you ever asked your employees to evaluate the delivery of your training/educations? As examples:

Is this appealing?

Would it draw you in?

Do you find this to be a useful tool?

What else can we do to make the learning more engaging to you?

We need to make training something great for all generations, especially the younger workers. If we want to retain the younger generations we need to recognize that we’ve got to have more variety to accommodate their learning styles. At the same time we must ensure that the non-Gen Y employees are getting as much out of training as the younger staff.

When you approaching training or education on any subject, there’s no such thing as one size fits all, it does a disservice to all groups to force them to be in the same learning situation.

Learning is best when it’s a mix of formal and informal methods; this mix differs between types of organizations, age groups, learning material, tenure in positions, level within organizations, etc.

The savvy training department will be able to adapt and adopt new technologies to assist employees and benefit their organizations.

Regardless of your method of training, it crucial that employers communicate frequently and consistently in order for workers of all ages to know what is expected of them and when.

To learn more about blending formal & informal learning and the benefits to your organization please join me on the webinar Learning 2.0 - Learnscapes – blending formal and informal learning. Details for the free, live webinar is below:

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 – 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/979112875

Jodi Harrison

Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners

Interactyx Limited

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Oct 21

2009

Informal Learning 2.0

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, mLearning, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and knocking down the walls that have separated businesses from their customers. Networks are ushering in new ways of doing business. Corporate approaches to learning have to change as well.

Some cutting-edge corporations are adopting a new bundle of practices – let’s call them informal learning 2.0 – in order to improve operating efficiency by:

Slashing time to performance
Increasing customer loyalty through learning
Replacing bureaucracy through self-service
Developing more informed marketing partners
Improving learning along the supply chain

At the same time, the informal learning 2.0 approach sets the stage for broad cultural changes that strengthen the organization for the long term by enabling it to:

Maintain flexibility in the face of incessant change
Respond rapidly to competitive threats
Put innovation on everyone’s to-do-list
Enable workers to be all that they can be
Establish frameworks for continuous improvements

In a networked corporation, there is scant difference between knowledge work and learning. Workers become problem solvers and innovators instead of cogs in the machine. The objective is ingenuity, not conformity. Business success depends on them working together rather than as individuals. Collaboration rules. They work and learn in what has been tagged by CLO Magazine as “learnscapes”.

Corporations can create superior “learnscapes” by injecting practices that foster optimal learning: interaction, ease of access, timely reinforcement, peer coaching, and cognitive apprenticeship and so on. Developing and nurturing “learnscapes” is not just something to keep training departments busy; it’s the top responsibility of this group and the ultimate key performance indicator.

Isn’t it time to get everyone in the corporation involved in learning?

To learn more please attend a free webinar – Informal Learning 2.0 – Learnscapes

Register for a session now by clicking a date below:

Wed, Oct 28, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Wed, Nov 11, 2009 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

REFERENCE: Chief Learning Officer: http://www.clomedia.com/current_issue.php

Jodi Harrison

Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners

Interactyx Limited

jodi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Oct 14

2009

Learning Tools in Tough Economic Times

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

Has your organization cut back on training?

Has your training business come to a stand still?

In tough economic times, finding money for professional development of your staff can be a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be, given the proliferation of inexpensive or free web applications for personal and workplace learning.

It’s sometimes assumed that learning tools means tools specifically dedicated to learning and often we overlook the value in ordinary tools. This duality is what makes these tools so powerful – because they are not separate tools you have to use but ones that are familiar to you.

Do you want ideas on how you can bring more learning tools to your staff or clients in expensively? How about ideas about repurposing tools and materials you already have invested in? We all know how important it is to stay current and gain expertise. With thousands of tools available learning professionals can easily find ways to direct their personal and professional development without straining their budgets.

Learn more about TOPYX, Twitter, Ning, DimDim, LinkedIn, Google reader and more.

Join us October 21 at 2PM EDT to learn more about Social Networking tools, re-purposing your Intellectual property and distributing it for more revenue. Register for our free, live webinar below:

Use Social Networking and eCommerce to Create New Revenue Channels
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
2:00pm - 3:00pm ET
Register Here - Space is Limited

Jodi Harrison

Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners

Interactyx Limited

j odi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Sep 30

2009

Job Posting Requires Twitter

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, mLearning, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

Human Resource® Executive magazine (http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/index.jsp) recently had an article about Best Buy Co. posting a job listing for a senior manager in emerging media marketing. Now this in and of itself is not an unusual activity but it did garner plenty of attention – some of course from job seekers, but plenty more from people fascinated by the job’s “preferred requirement” that the candidate have 250 followers on Twitter. Now, this is a first for many of us, but it makes sense that for this job the candidate is up on the latest technologies. Many consulting firms have weighed in on this article some thinking it’s a good move and others question if “followers” have a direct correlation to someone expertise in a particular area.

This posting received so much attention that Best Buy temporarily removed the posting and asked people to log on to its IdeaX (idea exchange) Web site and help them re-craft the job posting to better reflect the skills needed for the position.

Overall this was still a great move on Best Buy's part; look at the buzz of the Twittersphere and the mass media over this position, exposure alone should help them find a better candidate.

Other companies are asking candidates to send links to their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles as a way to help the company “get a feeling for who you are and why you would be a good match for this position.”

What do you think? Will this require us to think about our social networking from a new perspective? Will we want to post family vacation photos on Facebook and put our family updates on our “walls”? Do we need two accounts everywhere; one for personal and one for business?

Jodi Harrison
Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners
Interactyx Limited

j odi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Sep 25

2009

Do you really need an Enterprise LMS? Maybe not…

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, mLearning, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

This title of a webinar hosted by CLO Magazine caught my attention and I thought I would throw it out to you for your opinions. I think both directions have great value, just different drivers and potential benefits. So, do you really need an Enterprise LMS?

How do you know what LMS is best for your organization?

They tossed out some startling statistics large corporations (10K employees and up) have 5 or more LMS in many cases. So there must be some value to having departmental/divisional LMS, yes? Or is this the case that they are so large the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing?

Could we be moving toward more user-centric learning portals offering more than a course library? What do you think?

Jodi Harrison
Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners
Interactyx Limited

j odi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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Sep 17

2009

Does eLearning need to have a ROI that’s more than just money?

Posted by Jodi Harrison in TOPYX, Social Networking, Interactyx, eLearning 2.0

Does eLearning need to have a ROI that’s more than just money?

The Adobe Captivate Blog earlier this month reported on a Higher Ed blog - http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/

“Around 70% of faculty believe that the learning outcomes of online learning are inferior to F2F.”

This got me thinking about business eLearning -

I have seen all sorts of content classified as eLearning and as an educator I have to ask –

Is it important to have learning outcomes associated with eLearning for it to be “Learning”?

Behavior changes, should we expect this to be a part of eLearning? Should there be an expectation of “measurable understanding” obtained from the eLearning content?

Should there be pedagogical tools and standards used to create elearning content? From a business prospective should there be an expected ROI for eLearning?

If a training department saves money on training costs by switching from classroom training to eLearning but gains no business outcomes have they really saved anything?

I know this is more questions than answers, but at the end of the day the education experience can’t be about saving money can it?

Jodi Harrison
Vice President, Business Development and Affiliate Partners
Interactyx Limited

j odi.harrison@interactyx.com
www.interactyx.com

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