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Web 2.0 trend to revolutionize corporate training in the coming decade
TORONTO - Rip, mix and burn your training. Do some of these words sound familiar? It's how most people today are sharing and listening to their music. You create your music, rip or copy it, mix the songs to create new tunes and then burn it to a CD.
Corporate training departments in all industries will soon be using this
approach to build their training material and procedures. The Beacon Group, a
leading organizational development advising firm, is at the forefront of this
emerging trend and has been tracking the growing importance of
open-collaboration systems in workplaces across the nation.
Richard Baraniuk, Professor at Rice University, operates a website called Connexions (www.cnx.org), which is a free stockroom of publications and other courseware. Users can take material from any book posted on the website to copy it and mix it with some content that the user themselves has created. The system acts as a customization tool for learning content. Workplace educators and other HR professionals looking to build training programs for employees can dip into this material on-demand to find precisely the content they require. The Beacon Group is working with a number of clients to advise on the importance of this and other Web 2.0 tools in the workplace.
"Imagine supervisors, managers and other employees accessing a database
of standard materials and adapting them for their needs within a department,"
said Michael Sitayeb, Director of Product Development & Marketing at The
Beacon Group.
"Employees who have access to this material would further contribute to
the process by removing content that wasn't effective and adding more useful
information. Supervisors would update the content instantly as policies and
procedures change," he added.
"This is definitely the wave of the future for fast, practical and
targeted training."
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