WIKI WIKI: THE LEARNING LAB EXPERIMENT

WIKI WIKI: THE LEARNING LAB EXPERIMENT

Unable to join the Wiki clinic at Training magazine's Training Directors' Forum earlier this month in Palm Springs? No problem! You can still take part in the Wiki-Wiki Learning Lab Experiment.

In a keynote presentation at TDF, Bryan Chapman, a learning strategist at Brandon Hall Research in Sunnyvale, Calif., explained that a wiki is a group Web page were readers also become content contributors. In the onsite clinic at TDF, 20 participants built a group Wiki and added examples of training "best practices" to it -- either from their own company or from examples that were shared during conference sessions.

To view the Wiki and to add your own examples to it, visit http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Training_Best_Practices.

Chapman notes that there is a link in the introduction section where users can go to download instructions on how to edit the Wiki and add their own information. "Please note that this is work in progress," adds Chapman. "You may click on a topic, only to be taken directly into the Wiki editor. That's because the page doesn't exist yet. It's waiting for you to build out the content. The table of contents was built around the major Training Directors' Forum themes, but you can even add you own topics."

Source: Online Learning www.vnulearning.com