Ready, Set, Curate: 8 Learning Experts Tell You How - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156286940X ISBN 13: 9781562869403

Publisher: ATD Press, 2016

Synopsis

Good content is everywhere.

In our digital world we are content rich, but quality poor. Good content surrounds us, but it begs to be collected, transformed, and shared. And who better to distill and dismantle it for the benefit of learning communities than today’s learning and development professional?

Curation isn’t novel in itself, and there’s much to learn from the successes of others. News sites commonly curate stories adding their own analysis. Retailers and marketers crowdsource ideas from consumers. Businesses build curation strategies to leverage product reviews.

Ready, Set, Curate shows you how to elevate the most important content from an endless sea of learning information and offers strategies to better connect with your audience. Using case studies and relevant examples, eight curation experts share tips and best practices for creating a curation strategy and collecting content that is relevant to your learning communities.

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About the Author

Ben Betts is an entrepreneur, technologist, and social learning expert. Ben and his team at HT2 develop products and services for online learning. In his role as CEO of HT2, Ben developed the Curatr Social Learning platform and the open source learning record store Learning Locker. He has worked with Google, Accenture, KPMG, Pearson Education, Oxford University, Cambridge University, BP, Twitter, Nike, Barclays, Shell, Xerox, and many more. Ben writes and speaks about social and peer-to-peer learning around the world, and has made an appearance at TEDx. He has contributed to four books in the last two years and published peer-reviewed academic papers and magazine articles. He completed a doctorate at the University of Warwick, UK, where he studied the application of social learning in the workplace. He also holds an MBA and is a Fellow of the Learning & Performance Institute.

Allison Anderson has a passion for creating compelling experiences for organizational learners. With more than 20 years’ experience as a learning leader in higher education and the private sector, Allison’s roles have included learning strategist at Intel Corporation and director of learning at ESCO in Portland, Oregon, USA. With a focus on social and collaborative learning, learner experience, and strategic visions, her favorite projects include creating a staff and faculty training program for Lewis & Clark College and leading Intel’s Learning Community of Practice. Her work has been highlighted in CLO Magazine, The New Social Learning (ATD Press, 2015), Revolutionize Learning & Development (ASTD Press and Wiley, 2014), The 2020 Workplace (HarperBusiness, 2010), and Next Learning, Unwrapped (lulu.com, 2011). Allison is a frequent presenter and facilitator at leading industry conferences, including DevLearn, the ATD International Conference & Exposition, Training 2012, Europe’s Corporate Universities, Ac@demies, Estrategias de eLearning Brasil, the Social Learning Boot Camp, the CLO Symposium, and the Wharton Executive Program for Work-Based Learning Leadership. Allison has also led presentations at Elliott Masie’s Learning Conference on topics as wide-ranging as learning ecosystems, social learning, curation, and women in learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: ATD Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156286940X
• ISBN 13: 9781562869403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Betts Ben, Anderson Allison