KNOWLEDGE PILLS
(MICROLEARNING)
Knowledge pills is a method of education that strengthens professional competences by using short pieces of multimedia advice. That method is exploding in popularity. The workplace continues to evolve and employees are working less 9 to 5 and more synergistically throughout all hours of the day, often on the fly from mobile devices, away from the office.
As the learning industry shifts to a “resources, not courses” approach, we must remember that just because we are creating smaller courses, we are necessarily delivering valuable content. The key to success here is that the training still needs to be created as part of a comprehensive learning experience. Learners often want to have choices and more control over their learning. Offering training in shorter bursts, when and where learners need it, can lead to higher engagement and increased productivity.
SOCIAL LEARNING
Social learning is a sharing knowledge, information and experience via interactive discussion and collaboration among peers. It may be enhanced using technology, including social media. It is true that “all learning is social,” in the sense that culture, language, and/or interactions with others are usually involved.
Education and training used to be based on learning all everything you might need to know to be an expert in your job and to teach others. Because the amount of information has become enormous, and is always changing, this expectation is now impossible to fulfill. The only real solution is to learn basic skills (including information search and evaluation skills) and then obtain information as you need it. “Just-in-case” learning has moved to “just-in-time” learning. Communications channels have moved from “one to many” to “many to many.” This has radically altered power relationships between learners and instructors. It is also the main reason that learning is now seen as “social” rather than being the result of “teaching.” Also, the learner has moved from being immobilized in a classroom to being mobile in the world while still connected to the information that he or she might need.
VIRTUAL TEAM
A Virtual Team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by online communication technology. They have complementary skills and are committed to a common purpose, have independent performance goals, and share an approach to work for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
Virtual teams do not replace regular teams (face to face meetings, even incidental, have unique benefits that are important to the success of team). Virtual teams are built on common trust and the drive within the project, just like in normal teams, but this may not reveal to be apparent in the virtual team environment. Therefore, supplementing virtual team working over internet, it is recommended to have face to face meetings and the common trust relationship that should part of any team.