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Part of Redbean's mission is to research, and contribute to, the latest thinking in business improvement from the three key perspectives of Business, Technology and People. We specialised for a number of years in the learning and performance sector and interactive learning in particular. These days our scope includes all areas contributing to business growth and improvement.

Below are a selection of papers and articles written by Paul McKey discussing the organisational, technical and commercial aspects of business success. Please feel free to link and/or distribute these papers as long as the copyright notices remain intact.

Also see Paul McKey's Blog at www.paulmckey.com

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Smart Business Profile- HITnet Getting your message through is hard enough at the best of times but when faced with geographic and literacy barriers it is almost impossible. See how learning technology and touch screen hardware is providing health information to indigenous Australians.   PDF
Business Strategies – First steps to a Smart Business Small businesses have to see how globalisation and technology are changing their world – and then adapt. What sort of company are you?  
Redbean Corporate Learning Maturity Model This paper published at the Ed-Media conference in Vancouver is one of the most important pieces of work Redbean has done in the area of online learning. Developed over ten years with a number of clients the Redbean Corporate Learning Maturity Model provides an easy to grasp model for assisting any organisation in the design and investment planning of their learning and performance initiatives.  
Phil Long, iCampus - Interview

The iCampus Outreach Initiative disseminates innovative educational technology tools that can make a significant, sustainable difference in how students learn, remember, and shift from absorbing facts and concepts to creating new ideas and solutions themselves.

Listen to this engaging interview with Phil Long, Associate Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, MIT, Boston.

 

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Synergistic Design June 2007 This paper on the Synergistic Design of Organisational Learning sets the foundation for Redbean's business improvement processes. What if we could isolate some of the key factors that can help turn lack-lustre and poor performance into outcomes which continually exceed objectives? The first step is in understanding where conflict and synergy exist within your organisation. This paper has been re-edited from the original published in the proceedings of ELearn, Honolulu, 2006.  
Performance Modelling 2007 Performance modelling is a powerful new tool for transferring capability into performance. Particulalrly for interactive learning and design!  
Persona Design - Personalising Learning Websites This article shows how to break the one-size-fits-all design ethos of a typical website and provide greater personalisation to your sites.  

Business Success with Learning and Development

During our Australian seminar tour we laid down our philosophy and approach to developing successful learning projects and businesses.
The presentations from the seminar are available for you to download here.
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Paul McKey speaks about eLearning on Radio National.

This 4 minute piece on eLearning was recorded for Radio National and broadcast on the Perspective program and throughout Asia via Radio Australia. Click Here for the Audio.

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Enterprise Learning - How to gather requirements to deliver effective learning The concluding article on requirements gathering, and why it is so critical to the sucess of any learning and development program.  
Enterprise Learning - The beauty of requirements The first in a series of articles on improving enterprise learning outcomes.  
Successful Implementation of Online Learning Paul McKey delivered a keynote speech at the 2004 Blackboard Asia-Pacific Users Conference. His presentation is available here for download. (1MB)  
7 tips for succesful online learning Online learning is about achieving a balanced mix of business, purpose, technology and people. Here are some areas to keep an eye on when considering the development and implementation of online learning in your organisation.   PDF
Interactive Learning Techniques - Improving Events Organisations which are geographically dispersed face greater challenges than most. This article shows how online learning can improve corporate communications.  
Interactive Learning Techniques - Vibrant Organisations Increasingly, research is showing that culture is the key to succeeding and young and vibrant cultures will adapt faster. So if you are not defining your organisational culture, who is?   PDF
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From e2i - Learning for the Information Age Business elearning has a bright future. Yet if you are spending money on an LCMS are you getting best value for money? August 2003
Back to School on eLearning Published in Wheels for the Mind, the magazine of the Apple University Consortium. July 2003
The Total Student Experience The vision that launched a thousand...  
Preparing Information Systems for Global web-based Education Online learning is more than a website and a learning management system.  
The Development of the Online Educational Institute If we put a university online what would it look like?  
Evolving Business Models A paper by Tom Baron reviewing the eLearning sector.  
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  During our 2005 Australian seminars we laid down our philosophy and approach to developing successful learning projects and businesses. This approach is based upon Synergistic Business Design, a focus on the customer and sound technology practice.
The presentations from the seminar are available for you to download. They describe the today, tomorrow and future states of the online learning sector for vendors, clients and developers.
     
     
     
 

 

 


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