Edgeworks Product | 9 |
Content Creation | 2 |
SEM | 10 |
Design | 7 |
Instructional Design | 2 |
Props | 157 |
Alphabet Soup | 12 |
Creative Collaboration | 1 |
Website Ownership | 1 |
Services | 4 |
Client Website | 25 |
Edgeworks Office | 14 |
Marketing | 13 |
SEO | 9 |
This Day in History | 1 |
Branding | 1 |
Book Review | 1 |
Q&A | 2 |
April 2021 | 2 |
March 2021 | 9 |
February 2021 | 9 |
January 2021 | 3 |
September 2020 | 1 |
May 2020 | 1 |
April 2020 | 2 |
March 2020 | 1 |
February 2020 | 2 |
January 2020 | 3 |
December 2019 | 2 |
November 2019 | 1 |
October 2019 | 3 |
September 2019 | 2 |
August 2019 | 4 |
July 2019 | 1 |
June 2019 | 2 |
May 2019 | 10 |
April 2019 | 3 |
September 2016 | 2 |
August 2016 | 2 |
October 2015 | 1 |
September 2015 | 1 |
August 2015 | 3 |
July 2015 | 4 |
June 2015 | 4 |
May 2015 | 3 |
April 2015 | 4 |
March 2015 | 3 |
February 2015 | 2 |
January 2015 | 6 |
December 2014 | 3 |
November 2014 | 3 |
October 2014 | 4 |
September 2014 | 2 |
August 2014 | 1 |
April 2014 | 5 |
March 2014 | 1 |
February 2014 | 5 |
January 2014 | 1 |
December 2013 | 3 |
November 2013 | 2 |
October 2013 | 4 |
September 2013 | 5 |
August 2013 | 4 |
July 2013 | 6 |
June 2013 | 7 |
May 2013 | 8 |
April 2013 | 4 |
March 2013 | 7 |
February 2013 | 5 |
January 2013 | 5 |
December 2012 | 12 |
November 2012 | 7 |
October 2012 | 7 |
September 2012 | 5 |
August 2012 | 9 |
July 2012 | 8 |
June 2012 | 14 |
May 2012 | 3 |
It's time for some more acronym-busting with this bowl of Alphabet Soup - JITL - which stands for Just-In-Time-Learning.
JITL has been used in the corporate world to train employees and in education environments from K-12 through university settings, but it can be understood within the context of any or all self-directed learning opportunities.
As with any professional or educational endeavor there are subject matters which may or may not prove useful to an individual learner. The common student refrain of "when will I ever use this information" isn't complete hogwash. Often the skills a person may need to learn in order to accomplish a task or goal are only part of a much larger body of knowledge. While it can be helpful to have a full understanding of a complete subject matter (necessary to become a subject matter expert), most goals can be accomplished with a limited set of instruction pertaining to the task at hand.
JITL is focused on having appropriate learning opportunities available at the time a learner needs them. The goal with JITL is to enhance skills when and where they are needed. Typically these will be small individual courses that learners can access and complete relatively quickly.
For on-the-job JITL these courses tend to be mobile-optimized such that an employee can access them from a job site. In some cases JITL may involve the use of image recognition and artificial intelligence to provide information in real time for real-world situations.
An example could be an HVAC technician who arrives at a facility to fix a piece of equipment they have no experience with. If the technician is wearing augmented reality glasses and there is a JITL course specific to that equipment then it is possible to help the technician through their task by providing just-in-time information that walks them through the process to achieve their goals, delivering value faster than if the worker needed to understand everything about the equipment they were servicing.
For corporate training JITL is best viewed as supplemental learning. Instructor-led training and classroom training are still valuable experiences and should not be completely replaced by JITL. JITL is not well-suited for mandatory training and should be used as supplementary learning opportunities.
Any JITL system should be readily searchable so learners can find the content that they are looking for without much trouble.