Networking lunches - slides

Brightwave was host to two networking lunches at Learning Technologies 2012.

• Effective virtual classrooms for business skills
• E-mosaics: agile learning for the workplace in 2012

Effective virtual classrooms for business skills

Want to implement effective virtual classrooms? Need a solution that provides bite-sized business and management skills to time-hungry employees?

The need for flexible, live online training has never been greater - with 60% of organisations* planning new investment in virtual classrooms and nine out of ten stating that live online learning will help them tackle the skills shortfall - either now or in the future. (*Towards Maturity Benchmark study 2011)

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LiveTime Learning
LiveTime Learning is being used by organisations including BP, BT, DAC Beachcroft, Kent County Council and Tata Steel as part of their training programs. The unique service recently won Gold for ‘Best use of synchronous e-learning’ at the 'E-Learning Awards 2011', with judges praising how LiveTime has effectively wrapped vital management and business skills training into an interactive learning experience.

LiveTime uses virtual classroom technology to deliver key business skills in 20 minute digestible chunks. Participants can choose from over 100 live sessions on topics to improve communication, business and leadership and management skills.

LiveTime has established itself as a powerful, time-efficient and cost-effective solution that can accelerate key business skills organisation-wide.  Now in its second year, it continues to break new ground imaginatively using social media and mobile devices to support the live sessions, drive take-up and increase access. 

What's more, Brightwave is now using its LiveTime expertise to develop bespoke virtual classroom and blended solutions for clients.

E-mosaics: agile learning for the workplace in 2012

Share in our latest thinking about learning design that's in tune with how people learn - and work - today.

There's growing recognition in L&D circles that organisations need to grasp the opportunities for their people to learn informally through the unprecedented array of media channels available to most of us today:

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This is not just about Generation Y: the way everyone acquires knowledge, increasingly through technology, is changing."
Craig McCoy HR Director, Bupa Health and Wellbeing

No more spoon-feeding
Outside work we learn continuously and in an agile way. We move easily from one media channel to another accessing and filtering content, acting as our own gatekeepers, taking what we need from what's out there and applying it as we see fit.

We're doing it for ourselves
Learning in the workplace can reflect this by moving away from current formal models of linear, e-learning modules to more versatile self-directed 'mosaics' of learning resources that put the user at the centre of things.

An 'e-mosaic' is simply our term for content and resources on a particular topic that are assembled as a mosaic of which perhaps 80% already exists and only 20% needs to be developed from scratch.

The mosaic
The mosaic can be made up of everything from YouTube videos, web casts, live forums, PowerPoints and PDFs to existing e-learning modules and some brand new material - all curated to achieve objectives and make the best use of available resources and investment. A rigorous assessment can ensure employees have understood and can apply the information.

Part of a bigger design
The e-mosaic is one element of a new approach which moves us on from the idea of a single training intervention, to people seeing learning as free self-directed access. Access to 'resources not courses' or performance support - less about acquiring and embedding knowledge and more about providing knowledge when needed - supported by top-up tests and communications reinforcing key messages throughout the year.

Slides from this event will be published soon

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