Collaborative Learning - Best Practices

September 14, 2007 at 11:52 pm · Filed under Trends, General

This week, the whole team has been working heads down pulling together an interactive presentation on collaborative learning.   We’ll preview it next week so stay tuned.

During our research, we saw an interesting presentation by the Gronstedt Group to the ASTD Annual Conference,  In this presentation were some great examples of what companies like IBM and EMC are doing with collaborative learning  We thought we would share these with you:

 At IBM, they have completely embraced collaborative learning, with:

• 5,000 podcasts
• 3,400 blogs
• 70,000 people using wikis
• 2,000,000 podcast downloads

They estimate their annual savings to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To see an example of this blog pages, click here. 

For an example of some of IBM Podcasts, click here.

EMC has adopted podcasting as the way to train their global sales force and customers. At EMC, they produce 5 - 10 new audio / video podcasts every week.  Many are extremely entertaining.  To see more , click here.

 James Hunsiker, Manager of Sales at EMC says ” I’ve never seen the field organization so enthusiastic about learning”

If you’re interested in seeing if collaborative learning can work for you organization or one of your colleagues / clients, we are offering a complimentary assessment of your training efforts to see if collaborative learning can work.  To schedule this, give me a call at 781-953-4510 or click here.

 Best,

 Dave

Technorati Tags: podcast, ASTD, Training, Candeos, IBM, EMC, Collaborative Learning, Training 2.0, Instructional Design, Emerging Leaders

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Welcome to Our Blog

July 30, 2007 at 8:23 pm · Filed under General

We have started this blog to help inform our clients about one of the most exciting trends in our industry….Collaborative Learning.

The learners of today grew up with on demand technologies like Instant Messaging, MySpace, Facebook, Discussion Boards, Podcasts.  Traditional classroom based learning will not be as successful in training the next generation of business leaders. Collaborative Learning’s mission is to integrate these ” on demand” technologies into mainstrem learning, driving more effective learning and results.

Our plan is to cover Industry Trend, Best Practices, Success Stories and have demonstrations of the power of technologies like podcasting, instant messaging, blogs, discussion forums. 

We hope that you find this information useful.

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