Here’s an article written in 1944 by Stephan M. Cory (University of Chicago January 1944 edition of Childhood Education). It is a classic satire written in the first person of a seventh grade student discussing his experiences in elementary school. I think it’s a great example of the contrast of learning in rigid formal environments...Continue Reading
I’m back from some vacation where I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. Even if you haven’t read Outliers yet you probably know that it sets out to dispel myths that intelligence or innate ability are the primary predictors of success. Instead, Gladwell summarizes research and provides examples to show that it is hours and hours of...Continue Reading
This is the fifth and final post in the 10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series. I appreciate the comments and e-mails in response to previous posts. This last post focuses on the job (or role). First, how jobs can be designed to optimize natural learning (strategy #9) and second, how elements of the...Continue Reading
Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge Are you ready for Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge (B.O.O.K)? Apparently “thousands of content creators have committed to the platform and investors are reported flocking to the medium” I learned about the new device through this B.O.O.K MARK while browsing a local supplier of B.O.O.K on the weekend.Continue Reading
This is the fourth post in the 10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work series. Organizational Learning Practices (Strategy #8) offers opportunities to build learning into day to day work. The methods can help individuals, teams and entire organizations surface and understand patterns of behaviour that lead to sub par performance and to adopt...Continue Reading
In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?” ASTD Learning Circuits big question for July The Learning Circuits big question this month is an important one,...Continue Reading
In my last post I listed ten strategies for integrating learning with work. They are a combination of concepts and methods that build knowledge and bring learning into day to day activities and workflow. In this post I describe strategies 4 and 5. Both can improve informal learning without pulling people way from the job for...Continue Reading
The goal of learning in the workplace is performance–individual and organizational. If we’ve learned nothing else in recent years, we’ve learned that learning is most effective when it is integrated with real work. What we need are practical strategies that we can to use to make it happen. In a series of following posts I’ll...Continue Reading
The 15th annual Advanced Learning: This is IT! conference is taking place this year at George Brown College in Toronto May 20-22. The conference focus is on advanced learning technologies in higher education and business learning. On Friday at 9:00, I will be presenting a session with Robert Luke (Director Research and Innovation at George...Continue Reading
Last week I worked on two organizational design related proposals. In both, I used the Organization-as-System (OAS) Map as an important analytical tool and it started me thinking about how useful a conceptual approach it has been over the years. Originally created by Geary Rummler as tool to envision an organization as a flow of...Continue Reading
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