Up Close and Personal - Part 2
E.learning Age › Nbr. 4/2006, May 2006 › Getting Down To Business
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One of the four main themes of Department for Education & Skills's current e-strategy for education reform addresses the personalization of learning where the ambition of the personalized content agenda is to exploit technology to help learners build their capacity and capability as they move through the system, and to help practitioners to better design and support an increasingly tailored approach to education for the learners. At the most basic level, personalization started by offering some simple choices. Many organizations started by using technology to provide new options for learning. Embracing relevance is one of the next key steps on the personalization journey. Alignment of learning to business strategy and embedding tutor or expert support in the system to help learners help themselves are both significant steps. Employers need to take a pragmatic approach to personalization -- keeping it relevant and manageable, aligning to need, not overloading with options.
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Up Close and Personal - Part 2
In the 8th annual CIPD Learning and Development survey 84 per cent of the 600+ businesses that responded claimed that learners were being encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning. They also identified a trend that overall training departments were acting more as facilitators than providers of instruction. This shift in focus is also at the heart of DfES's current e-strategy for education reform'. One of the four main themes of this strategy addresses the personalisation of learning where the ambition of the personali...
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