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Saturday, May 14, 2011

WK 2 Discussion Deeper: Podcasts in Education Post


In my corporate training environment within the Medical Device Industry I often incorporate short podcasts as part of my training curriculum.  These podcasts come from a variety of well know Industry relevant sources and become the discussion points for some newly learned knowledge on a specific subject matter.  It allows my audience to hear my message through other reputable sources.  I have shared a few with you below. 

Podcast: Effective Corporate Training from COMPLIANCE WEEK, The leading information service on corporate governance, risk and compliance.  This podcast is a talk with Tom Yorton, CEO of Second City Communications, about how to make corporate training sessions more popular with employees and more effective.  It speaks about how to engage your learners by ensuring that the content is not wooden or artificial and how to win the audience and keep them captive.   http://www.complianceweek.com/podcast-effective-corporate-training/article/186750/

Podcast:  Quality Function Deployment presented by ASQ (American Society for Quality).  Quality Function Deployment describes a structured methodology for translating customers’ needs into appropriate technical design requirements. It describes the House of Quality and the seven-step QFD process.  This podcast can be used to help train project team members on how to gather and incorporate needs or requirements from clinical laboratories and physicians into design solutions for newly created medical devices.  http://asq.org/edu/0002C2/video/division-education/5ml-quality-function-deployment.html?shl=093335



Podcast:  Labeling Compliance for Medical Devices – Global Harmonization presented by PharmaIQ.  This podcast speaks to the needs for global harmonization of regulatory requirements for Medical devices with premarket design in order to launch products globally and gain approvers to import the devices into global countries.  There are many regulations created by different agencies, sometimes specific to countries of origin and this creates a lot of burden for Medical Device manufactures to comply to all these regulations.  http://www.pharma-iq.com/regulatory-legal/podcasts/labelling-compliance-for-medical-devices-wanted-gl/

Podcast:  Social Media for Project Managers presented by PMI (Project Management Institute) Social Media is one of the hot topics these days. As a project manager you are bombarded with articles and podcasts that talk about social media and how you as a project manager should embrace these tools. 

It ask the question, is social media just another way of communicating? Do Project Managers really need all this hoopla and hype?  Elizabeth Harrin who is the author of the book called "Social Media for Project Managers” discusses how social media is transforming project management these days, how we need to adapt, how social media will drive efficiencies in our work, the "7 C's of social media" and much more.


Podcast:  At Ciena Corporation, the link between learning and business strategy is not lip service; it’s a tangible dedication that starts from the top.  This is one of many podcasts provided by ASTD (American Society for Training and Development).  The podcast describes how Ciena Corporation utilizes technology as a learning tool and vehicle to ensure that all levels of an organization are continuously informed of company’s strategies and the expectations.  They train their employee’s using 21st century technology regardless of their status, role and location within the organization. 

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