learning management systems

Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie with Charlie Gillette, Founder and President at Knowledge Anywhere, and Jacqueline Holmes, their Marketing Lead. 

Knowledge Anywhere is an innovative alternative to traditional learning management system. They are training solutions that allow you to quickly and easily organize, manage, assign, and track all of your in-person and online training in one place. 

Located in the Seattle area since 1998, Knowledge Anywhere creates and deploys easy-to-use, performance-based eLearning tools to make knowledge transfer more flexible, effective, and engaging. Their Learning Management System, Virtual Reality Training, and Course Development services, combined with our experience and customer support enable our users to create a learning and development program that delights learners and drives company growth.

Learn more about them and visit their website https://www.knowledgeanywhere.com/

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Vicki Tambellini, President and CEO of Tambellini Group kicks off this year’s Top of Mind podcast series. The current state of higher education, although hard to generalize, is very much institution-dependent. However, one universal fact that rings true is that institutions are working on a smarter, not faster, approach. Listen in as Vicki shares what she expects in the coming year and evaluates which predictions came true and evolved last year.

Toby Newman, a Learning and Development Manager at Here Technologies, an Open Location Platform firm with its headquarters in the Netherlands and a captivating learning culture. He has worked in a variety of businesses and sectors throughout the course of his 15-year career in learning and development, including telecoms and retail.

The latest episode of the Digital Adoption Show features Gokul Suresh, Head of Growth and Field Marketing, Whatfix and Toby Newman on How can individuals and organizations take control of their learning journey.

11:36 -How are you continuing to build the learning culture, as an L&D leader?

• A learning culture is where individuals set up a certain mindset and live by a certain ethos for a certain cause. An ideal learning culture is built when people held each other accountable to that mindset, it is more of a bottom-up approach in an organization where each individual holds accountability and the learning culture build over time
• During the course of a learning journey, people build a growth mindset which is an insular mindset. It's all about my positivity, my self-development, and my self-awareness, whereas a learning mindset takes a growth mindset and adds sharing to it. Sharing is where you start to push the growth mindset and help the community outwards

16:07 -What's your opinion on the learning while doing methodologies? And what role curiosity plays in staying ahead of the curve?

• Just-in-time training or learning means that I am doing something, for instance, in Excel, I have to stop doing what I'm doing, go off, find how to do it, and then come back and start work that's just time training. To enable just-in-time training you start to incorporate technology into your individual learning habits. Whether it be a learning experience platform, or even things like chatbots, or all those kinds of things
• Digital adoption platforms help stay ahead of the curve because learning in the flow of work is more than a mindset, people can’t spend much time figuring out how to do it during the course of work. Learning while doing methodologies is the blend of technology with your mindset

34:29 -How do you think we can have more organisations think about psychological safety?

• One of the troubles with the challenges with psychological safety is that you've got to give it time, you've got to start thinking about holding each other accountable. You need to empower not just the manager to work out how they think it's right to be a psychologically safe environment but also the employees and the individual contributors of that team, needs to feel to have the incentive to come forward and talk about it
• Managers that understand how to really develop a team and how to get the most out of a team should be engaged in learning, because they realise that if they can develop their team, and not just get my team to develop with them, then achieving targets, KPIs comes automatically
• So if we're creating a great psychologically safe environment, then everything is positive. There are no negatives to that. Unfortunately, not every manager either has the time or the inclination to do that. Because they're so focused on their targets. There is always a big push from our senior leadership on the importance of improving and self-development, developing and investing in technology to help people develop

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Fred Singer has a message for those in higher ed grappling with the imperative to deliver education online: offering “Zoom University” isn’t enough. “Simply repurposing a classroom doesn't make any more sense going forward than it did in the 1990’s for the newspapers to dump content online and assume the world's going to change. It didn't work that way.” And Singer knows what he’s talking about because he was there when the Washington Post first went online.  He’s built a fascinating career “chasing interesting, disruptive movements” as an internet pioneer and entrepreneur. As CEO of Echo360, he now sits at the intersection of innovation and education. His company, which is the first video platform designed to foster active, engaged, and personalized video-based learning, has been boosted by COVID as schools of all types have been forced to offer and improve distance learning. In this episode with host Shiv Gaglani, Singer highlights the parallels he sees between the relatively slow adoption of learning technologies in both education and healthcare, and predicts that major change is going to happen faster than people might realize. “All the technology and tools exist to deliver much cheaper education, much more convenient education. I think there will be huge opportunities for people that know how to embrace the change and not try to block it.”

In this highlight clip, which actually comprises nearly half of ClassCast Podcast Ep.022, host Ryan Tibbens discusses Coronavirus school closings as an opportunity for progress and innovation in education.  He addresses some of the risks and threats inherent in the situation as well. From looking at what we might gain to what we could lose, from bureaucratic decision-making to leaders in the classroom, Tibbens points out how long term goals for public education might actually be supported by the current closings and pandemic. 

If you appreciate any of the ideas in this clip, you might also enjoy the full episode or another highlight clip about 'being wrong' and announcing school closures.  At the end of the full episode, there are also book recommendations to help listeners regain some balance and confidence in their lives as well as a reference to how school stakeholders are handling the closures. Stay home; stay safe!

In this highlight clip from ClassCast Podcast Ep.020, education industry expert Jon Kasica describes to host Ryan Tibbens the process and teams involved in choosing a Learning Management System for a school division. In perhaps the greatest irony of the student-centered, project-based learning trends promoted by many educational leaders, Jon points out that students are rarely involved in adopting technology that aims to increase students' "voice and choice."  If you're a teacher who wonders how the tech is chosen, but you never get invited to the meeting, this clip is for you. 

This highlight clip from ClassCast Podcast Ep.020 features host Ryan Tibbens and online learning management system expert Jon Kasica discussing how the current rush to implement distance learning across the country might affect students' and schools' success as well as perceptions about the effectiveness of blended/distance learning and new learning management systems. Both men share fears that this frantic, disorganized implementation might yield frustrations and doubts that could jeopardize the future of blended learning. 

In the first highlight clip from ClassCast Podcast Ep.020, Learning Management Systems industry expert Jon Kasica talks with host Ryan Tibbens about implementing a new LMS, the normal teacher learning curve, and what these issues may look like when rushed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon uses his experience in the field to describe a normal adoption and implementation in comparison to the rushed processes currently underway around the country. 

In this highlight clip from ClassCast Podcast Ep.020, Jon Kasica, the Northeast Regional Sales Director in K-12 Education with Canvas Learning Management Systems, addresses issues related to accessibility and special education when working with a new LMS or with blended/distance learning in general. For many teachers, accessibility and Sp.Ed. issues are among the most serious concerns as we prepare to adapt to distance learning during the time of COVID-19. Here, Jon works to ease concerns and point to special features in the technology that can help all students. 

Today, Maria sits down with Bruce Umpstead.

Bruce is a director of State Programs at IMS Global Learning Consortium, the world-leading non-profit organization that operates under the simple principle: “Better learning from better learning technology”.

IMS Global brings together the actors of the e-learning ecosystem who are investing in a better future for teaching and learning by collaborating on creating standards for e-learning platforms.

During our conversation, Bruce takes us through his own learning journey, starting from his childhood as a US Air Force Military’s son. He shares the impressions his overseas travels left on him that made him eager to always explore adventures and create impact with his life and work.

He later talks about his career in Edtech and e-learning, the challenges and the excitement he has experienced over the years.

Together, we unpack the future of learning in light of how analytics and big data are creating a better and more personalized learning experience for students.

A rare inside look into the future of learning with someone who’s making it happen!

Production team:

Host : Maria Xenidou

Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian

Introduction Voice: David Bourne

Contact us:

impactlearningpodcast@gmail.com

Music credits:

Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals

Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

Mentioned in this episode

What is K12?

What is K20? Here or here.

The Akimbo podcast: https://www.akimbo.me/

The Master of Scale podcast: https://mastersofscale.com/

IMG Global

IMS Global K12 Playbook

CASE Network

Caliper Analytics

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Bruce Umpstead on Twitter

Email: bumpstead@imsglobal.org

Listen to this episode and explore:
An Air Force family childhood: living abroad sparked the love of adventure and exploring (3:21)

How his early career as an accountant for a startup corporate e-learning company grew into project management (7:48)

The next steps in his career leading up to his role as State Technology and Education director at Michigan university (9:40)

Learning to manage and get funds for big projects (12:21)

The biggest challenge in getting people to do the right thing at scale: when ideas become the leader’s idea instead of a consensus (14:57)

Shifting from consulting to back to corporate with IMS (18:59)

IMS Global, what they do and who they work for (20:06)

How their work helps teachers and students (24:25)

Analytics in e-learning (26:38)

The difficulty of making this project simple for people to understand and get on board (33:03)

His weekly practice of 20 years goals (36:36)