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Using MOOCs in Corporate Trainings

Many organizations offer prepackaged MOOCs, and this is a very good option for workplace skills, professional development, and other parts of a training program that don’t require company-specific content. The Saylor Foundation offers a Workplace Skills Program that includes courses in computer literacy, professional writing, and time and stress management.

To use these courses as part of a training program, simply have your employees take the courses online and then print out the certificates as proof of their completion – no additional training required.

Here are some other build-your-own-MOOC platforms to consider: Desire2Learn, ProProfs Training Maker, P2PU, and Google Course Builder (still in beta testing). You can also bypass the LMS altogether and set up the course as a wiki.

Another MOOC element that can be easily incorporated into a training program is working on collaborative documents to build an employee knowledge base. Many MOOCs have wikis that students can edit freely, which encourages them to share and collaborate. A wiki allows users to contribute their own knowledge and benefit from the knowledge of others, and the changes are instantaneous so there is no waiting for the system administrator to update the content.

If you are a Chief Human Resource Officer or a Chief Learning Officer, here are five questions to consider as you think about how MOOC’s can provide you the impetus to re-think and re-imagine your employer brand and corporate learning department.

How can MOOCs build the employer brand by offering consumer education? Your employees will be able to receive updated education from one of the most important universities in the world. Your employees will be at the same level in some topics.
What’s more important in learning: content or context? MOOCs’ universal nature is central to their existence. Bringing them into the company’s learning department inevitably means considering the context of training as well as the content.
How can data analytics help you improve your learning programs? MOOCs offer real-time analytics that reveal each learner’s progress and what formats work best for your learners. As big data sweeps the HR & Corporate Learning functions, more Chief Learning Officers need to be prepared to use data analytics to enhance the overall learning experience.
Can your company re-imagine the role of the learner? With MOOCs, the learner takes on a role more expansive than ever before, acting as teacher, learner, and peer reviewer.
Could verified certificates mean huge reductions to your executive education budget? Millennials, who are projected to be 50% of the global workforce by 2020, are demanding more opportunities for learning & development credentials. MOOCs offer that - at a price point of under $100 for each certificate. Based on Yahoo! and Coursera’s partnership to train and credential Yahoo!’s software engineers for a fee, this could become the “new normal” for employees pursuing continuing education. That in turn would lead to budget re-allocations regarding how companies spend their continuing executive education budgets.

However they do it, companies will have to adapt MOOC elements or risk falling behind. Because as historian Norman Davies once said, “The one certainty for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this; standing still is not an option.”

source> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2013/08/13/how-moocs-will-rev...

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Understanding Knowledge Management

Vidibell Information Knowledge Management

Information is everything, but when the information is transformed into Knowledge, is even better.

There are two types of knowledge assets. The first is Explicit Knowledge, which is information that the organizations hold and this can include reports of different projects, research, different types of databases. As a good rule this information can be stored either electronically or on paper. The second and much more elusive asset is the Tacit knowledge, which are skills and experience that is in the heads of employees, which is often the most valuable asset that an organization holds. The major difficulty with unlocking this value is to work out an effective methodology to recognize, generate, share and manage that knowledge.

The intellectual capital of the organization depends to a large extent on all the persons who are part of it, but it also depends on its operational and organizational structures and on internal and external relations.

In other words:

Tacit Knowledge: Knowledge, in the minds of organization members, not formulated in words or in a visual manner, not defined and not passed on to others.

Explicit Knowledge Knowledge recorded in documents, in databases and in procedures, formulated in words or in a visual manner, and can be found and included in the organization.

Benefits of Knowledge Management

• Increase performance

• Improves corporate image

• Opens new markets

• Enhances your company brand and gains a reputation as a reliable business

• Attracts the best employees through our enhanced reputation.

• Improves the quality of your offers

• Optimizes processes and results

Knowledge management is responsible for understanding:

● What the organization knows.

● Where this Knowledge is located, e.g. in the mind of a specific expert, a specific department, in old files, with a specific team, etc.

● In what form this knowledge is stored e.g. the minds of experts, on paper, etc.

In an ideal company, All individuals in the organization are expected to respect the knowledge of other people - especially of local offices. Furthermore, staff members are expected to share their knowledge, particularly that of a tacit and implicit nature, in appropriate format. They are also encouraged to convert their knowledge into an explicit form that can be readily shared with others.

If you have any questions regarding how to implement a Knowledge Management culture in your company and other Knowledge Management Techniques, please send me an email trough the contact form.

Benefits of Knowledge Management

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