SharePoint Site Owners: Blended Learning Solution

As more individuals clearly recognize that much of their learning is informal, more of our delivery mechanisms at Arden Corporation are integrating elements of informal learning in our services. To that end, one of our trainers has developed a blended learning solution for individuals who are tasked with responsibility for SharePoint sites for their group.


For those that are, they can be involved in:

• Deciding on the layout of the site
• Creating new sites
• Setting and monitoring access to the site documents
• Site administration and management

The skills needed for these elements are beyond the person who uses the SharePoint software for their work.  As such, the knowledge and skill needed is more intensive.  To help meet the education need for these individuals in a manner that is more conducive to individuals time availability, the blended learning solution has been developed - one that is focused on short segments of time.  

The work with the subject matter expert is in three (3) to four (4) hour stints.  Individual work is also kept at a similar time frame.  The subject matter expert makes herself available during times that the students are doing individual work (e.g. working on labs) in case additional help is needed.

In addition, being that the attention span of most adults is about fifteen (15) minutes in length, we strive to keep the education we provide in short segments to accommodate our adult need for changing up the milieu continuously so as to keep the mind stimulated and accelerate knowledge and skill development.

Development of this blended learning for SharePoint Site Owners is one more step in our work offering better learning experiences for individuals.