A couple of really good sessions* at this Kineo client day.
In the same week as the UKeIG event this looked at the digital transformation of L&D and, therefore, the future of workplace learning. The event took place alongside the availability of Kineo’s “Time to Transform” guide.
The guide is a nice summary of the state of the ‘learning landscape’ and, I would presume, the kind of developments most L&D teams are working on. That said some of the points, such as “look ahead and promote the resource-based approach”, are not very ‘transformative’ (although I appreciate my background means I don’t have the ‘course first’ mind-set that still plagues the industry IMHO).
* Couple of good sessions:
- Time to Transform states “arguably at the heart of all digital transformation of L&D will be the role of data” and the session on xAPI was great. I made a rather rambling point/question at the end of this, what I was basically saying was xAPI is always talked about in the same way as SCORM – i.e. to track things. What this session actually pointed out, to me, was that xAPI is instead a standard to help aggregate data. Using it in this way stops the risk of L&D, or at least an LRS, being a silo and thus largely pointless – indeed the red herring I warned about. However, this was one of those sessions where I thought, “this is great BUT only really if you happen to be doing it first in your organisation”. Where organisations are already data warehousing, managing metrics, etc. the Tin Can approach would seem to not add as much value.
- “Meeting MABLE from Mitchells & Butlers”, this session felt similar to the xAPI one in that your learning platform can be a fantastic, a ‘go to’ place, but it really only works when you aggregate on it and drive traffic – i.e. you do not have other silos, Intranets, etc. stealing time and attention from your colleagues. M&B’s presentation showed how their advertising and culture is clearly fantastic and the value in L&D tram’s bringing in external advertising and branding support. The take-up of the platform and clever creation of a persona for the platform (including use of Facebook) – always referred to as “she” not “it” – is clever and in line with some of the cleverer characterisation of other services (such as museum communications via Walrus and library management via ‘cuddly’ penguin). I also liked M&B’s #learninghero campaign through Totara Social to recognise who had helped colleagues to develop and grow. This is part of an impressive digitisation, including the carving up of numerous training days into 1-hour Adobe Connect sessions.
The other sessions I attended initial results from LMS platform research – presentation here, nothing really surprising and a session on credentials which will be familiar to users of open badges and related approaches.
Whose Education Is It Anyway? 
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