Attribution and Social Learning
"Attribution and Social Learning" Please respond to the following:
From the first e-Activity, contrast the advantages and disadvantages of just-in-time learning. Evaluate whether or not this is a valid and worthwhile investment to help increase the productivity within an organization. Describe your personal experience(s) with just-in-time learning.
Just in time learning I think is a great advancement in the way we acquire and retain information. Per the “The Head First Formula” article I read it goes into how the brain functions to retain important information. And with this study they are able to create books to accommodate their research to get all the information you need.
The advantage of just in time learning would be the ability to get information quickly and reproduce what you learned, cutting training cost and time needed to train, or even the need for trainers as a lot of just in time learning is now web based either as a video or power point. The disadvantage would be the skipping of fundamentals, it’s nice to get to the bottom line or what the item is for example learning excel, just in time learning would dig into how to start using the software and options, rather than stepping back and explaining more about its background, what can be achieved in details..etc
I do think it is a valid and worthwhile investment into an organization but must be very selective on what it will be used for. An example if the organization wants to bring the employees up to speed on a software that they may not use but have to be familiar with, just in time learning is perfect. But for someone that will be using and relying on that software I don’t think it’s best to utilize this practice since they cannot be masters in that craft, they will just know enough to do some basic to medium functionality and may not be prepped for future releases or know about past releases since they just learned the need to know of that specific version.
One personal experience I had was a
From the first e-Activity, contrast the advantages and disadvantages of just-in-time learning. Evaluate whether or not this is a valid and worthwhile investment to help increase the productivity within an organization. Describe your personal experience(s) with just-in-time learning.
Just in time learning I think is a great advancement in the way we acquire and retain information. Per the “The Head First Formula” article I read it goes into how the brain functions to retain important information. And with this study they are able to create books to accommodate their research to get all the information you need.
The advantage of just in time learning would be the ability to get information quickly and reproduce what you learned, cutting training cost and time needed to train, or even the need for trainers as a lot of just in time learning is now web based either as a video or power point. The disadvantage would be the skipping of fundamentals, it’s nice to get to the bottom line or what the item is for example learning excel, just in time learning would dig into how to start using the software and options, rather than stepping back and explaining more about its background, what can be achieved in details..etc
I do think it is a valid and worthwhile investment into an organization but must be very selective on what it will be used for. An example if the organization wants to bring the employees up to speed on a software that they may not use but have to be familiar with, just in time learning is perfect. But for someone that will be using and relying on that software I don’t think it’s best to utilize this practice since they cannot be masters in that craft, they will just know enough to do some basic to medium functionality and may not be prepped for future releases or know about past releases since they just learned the need to know of that specific version.
One personal experience I had was a