Our goals are simple: to stimulate learning, to develop insights, and to begin building an active community of workplace/workforce futurists. We also offer customized versions of these “on-demand” learning sessions for internal audiences. 9 AM Pacific Standard Time. Free, but advance registration is required. Share It! Upcoming Event

“We didn’t modify our initial hiring process enough to accommodate that, and so that’s something we learned pretty quickly over the course of the first year or so. “Go out and talk to some people who have done it and get their lessons learned,” he says. Is remote work only for a select few?

” Foundational skills that can foster these characteristics can be developed through personal knowledge management practices supported by social learning structures and emergent work environments. IBM just published its 2012 Global CEO Study: Leading through Connections. There is a lot at stake here. Mark Fidelman in Forbes.

In the same ways that Rypple has taken this model of social networking as a fundamental design point and applied it to performance management systems, I think you’re going to see it apply to a lot of systems, whether it’s recruiting, compensation or learning systems. That’s a lot of social. Image courtesy of Salesforce.

Has it been that long since I first did what we “learned” was knowledge management? Here is an article in KM World, The knowledge movement: trends and opportunities, that begins with tag line, “The true success of KM is when it disappears, meaning that KM processes are embedded in workflow.”  will take it one step further.  

There are lots of “learning specialists” in organizations and they work for variously named departments. As learning specialists, I assume they are supporting workplace learning, so let me ask: If I’m sitting at my desk with a work-related problem can I call the Training Department to quickly get me up to speed?

When I was writing my Master’s thesis on Learning in the New Brunswick Information Technology Workplace (completed in 1998) I based a part of it on a framework developed  in 1991. The SPATIAL model looks at how the physical and non-physical attributes of the work environment influence learning. Image by @gapingvoid.

PKM is also one of the topics for our social learning Summer Camp during July/August 2012. My next Personal Knowledge Management online workshop is scheduled for 11-22 June 2012. PKM Here is a 10 minute video that covers PKM and gives an introduction to the workshop. It should help in deciding if this workshop is for you.

Another thing we talk a great deal about is using learning objects to augment and/or replace the one-shot. In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library. Each unit probably has its own priorities, as does each individual. But how?

Participants will learn how to acquire, and facilitate the acquisition and application of information literacy skills that are relevant for the information user in the 21st century." link]. events

” @RalphMercer – “the 4 horsemen of technology adoption: trust, curiosity, leadership and culture” The Automattic (WordPress) company creed starts with “ I will never stop learning “- by @photomatt. will never stop learning. gapingvoid – “Marketing is not mathematics. Which is it?

meta-learning strategyI’m trying to get my mind around how the information we’re finding out about expertise matches to the types of problems people face. Clearly, you want to align your investments appropriately to situations you face. Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow ), you see an emerging picture of expertise.

Stephen Hart has a good series of quotes on informal and social learning on his website. Informal LearningSometimes the right quote gets the message across faster than a long explanatory paragraph.

Learn. Learning. Many of the talks at the conference talked about learning loops and continuous improvement. particularly liked that many of them talked about elements where learning occurs. Try something and observe the effects and change based on those observations is a form of single-loop learning.

Many of the talks at LSSC referenced learning loops, and Howell's included something along these lines too. Looping back from results to new actions is one learning loop. And looping back to observations creates a bigger learning loop: what am I seeing? Real collaboration happens when we agree to move money across borders.

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education , 4. Magyar, A.E. 2012) "Plagiarism and attribution: an academic literacies approach?" In many Higher Education courses in the UK the ability to write extended academic prose is central to assessment and therefore to student success. link] Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, 2012.

I think the implications are broader, but here I want to talk specifically about work and learning. By broadening our understanding of how we work and learn. The 70:20:10 framework, while not descriptive, does capture the reality that most of what we learn at work doesn’t come from courses (the ’10′). And more.

The five informal learning methods described in yesterday’s post on Learning in the Workplace have one thing in common. To compensate for its complicated processes, the enterprise attempts to shift to another paradigm, and tries to become a learning organization, putting significant effort into training.

It has to do with the ability of an organization to learn from what they see. This means they need to have the ability and opportunity to See Problems, Solve Problems, and Share Learning. When this happens, there is no opportunity to ask the dumb question - or to learn something.   .  . Interesting to see OpEx in the subtitle.

Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? ” Here are the top five ways that people learn, with my comments below on how this can be facilitated in the organization, either by management or the learning support group. Informal LearningNotice that these are all informal.

James March wrote a much acclaimed article in 1991 called “Exploitation and Exploration in Organizational Learning.” After about six months the group had begun to learn how each other thought. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy.

Note: It’s interesting that the whole learning objects discussion seems to have disappeared from the mainstream. have also moved on, doing much less work in the educational sector and now more focused on integrating learning into the enterprise workflow. Deep conversations about R&D in this Province never materialized though.

Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan University is hosting a professional development event on the approaches used by a number of libraries to support students’ academic skills. There is an Academic Skills Support event on 20th June 2012, at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, Cost is £60. by 6th of June with your details.

The unintended consequence has been to reinforce the notion that work and learning are separate and that one has higher value than the other when, in fact, the success of the organization depends on continuous learning. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. label. Princeton?

In today’s enterprise, work is learning and learning is the work, and it has to be done cooperatively. In The Paradox of Performance Pay , Allan Hawke shows how it has clearly led to decreases in organizational performance. Performance ”management” is judgment, not feedback; it’s a hierarchical dynamic.

I’m happy to report that the eLearning Guild has just released this year’s mobile learning research  report I authored for them (after doing the same last year). ” I believe mobile, as a platform, will have a transformative effect on the learning and performance workplace as it will elsewhere. mobile strategy

remember the old call center days in 90s when call center reps said they would learn about their company’s latest offers from people calling in. Awareness has released an interesting free report, 3 Keys to Influence: Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital. 90 percent of consumers trust recommendations from people they know.

During that time, the participating finalists will learn how to pitch properly and learn the basics of good interpersonal skills at Sequoia’s Sand Hill Road headquarters. Every year at our Structure conference, we host a Launchpad for startups. Check out last year’s finalists here , and read about DotCloud, the eventual winner.

You may also learn about other tools they’ve used that can be of value to your existing team. As a manager you may be willing to hire the best talent for your team no matter where they’re located, but how do you go about determining if a potential hire is, in fact, excellent? Handily, there are questions that can help.

Dick Bergeron was a 12th grade teacher at SPHS who really helped me understand a different path to learning and thinking. He did what I now know to be reciprocal teaching, had us take turns talking about what we were learning from our reading, and discussing it, with him facilitating our reflection. Here’s to learning!

Respondents reported challenges to an ILI credit course revolve around the lasting impact of teacher-centered instruction and rote learning, misperceptions about the effect of IL on student learning outcomes, degree of support of IL by academic stakeholders, degree of faculty-librarian collaboration, and scarcity of resources.

met many motivated educational change agents who are looking at how they can improve their learning environment, with and without technology. Learning PKMI really enjoyed my visit to Algonquin College in Ottawa today. The campus is home to a wide range of students, though I was surprised that most are under 24 years of age.

As organizations have learned to apply technology to these (and other) strategic imperatives, IT organizations and their senior leaders (the CIO, or Chief Information Officer, and his/her staff) have become central to conversations about strategy in the C-Suite and at the Board of Directors level. look forward to learning from you.

She addresses management and leadership questions in much more detail than physical workplaces, but she does suggest that the company of the future will be characterized by its collaborative workspaces, by a culture of transparency and ubiquitous learning, and more by a common vision than by any “command and control” mentality. Share It!

In this “network era”, work is learning and learning is the work, but what does that mean for traditional education and our continuing professional development? How can we prepare students, staff and faculty for a world where we are simultaneously connected, mobile, and global; while conversely contractual, part-time, and local?

Colorado Association of Libraries has a web site (unveiled at the end of January, I think) Survive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Librarians. Photo by Sheila Webber: Crab apple blossom, Sheffield University, May 2012

This isn’t unusual to learning design, except perhaps the focus on skills. But we’d already accomplished the learning! answered these two questions together; I don’t shy away from controversy, and believe that you use the design that works for the audience and the learning objective. Specification. As a team?

The weekly routine of reviewing my Twitter favourites and creating  Friday’s Finds  is another manual routine that I find helps to reinforce my learning and (hopefully) add to my knowledge. I started Friday’s Finds three years ago , in an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit. That’s about it. Friday's Finds

That’s also where we find learning opportunities. Understanding the role of boundaries in human systems can also give us ways to take advantage of them for learning, as Kathia Laszlo writes in Reflecting on Boundaries: Who is teaching and who is learning? Communities Informal Learning SocialLearning

Learn why 90 percent of the Global 1000 and two-thirds of the world’s Internet exchanges rely on Brocade at brocade.com/everywhere Today’s businesses require highly virtualized and services-on-demand environments. And that’s causing the network as we have known it to undergo a dramatic change. The future is built in.

There have been quite a bit of kerfuffle about ‘brain-based learning’, of which too much is inappropriate inferences from neuroscience to learning. It’s a worthwhile read, and tells us a lot about how we might adapt our learning to develop the fast system when necessary, and when to look to the slow system.

number of other observations were shared, and the group is now gathering its notes together in our discussion forum and continuing to learn together. We practised Seek (find books & authors), Sense (get recommendations for our context), and Share (have a conversation and narrate our learning). It was great to see this in action.

I’ve been thinking of this a lot lately in light of the fact that we recently hired an instructional designer to ramp up our production of learning objects. And one of the biggest problems I’ve seen with learning objects is that they are not often embedded in classes or at students’ points of need. But can we?

To call attention to global warming) Be willing to fail, to learn Connect on a human level. Principles for turning ideas into reality: Look - keep your eyes open; attach stories to what you see. Use the eyes of a child; look up; be curious Be wiling to do champions' work - it's lonely - use the time to practice and become great. Share It!

We can learn from the technological imperative - cannot use a screwdriver as a handsaw. Live blogging the Corenet Workplace Community: What's the Future? Panel comments - focus on technologies that enable collaboration; depends on managment - rely on results, not activities. Technology helps. But that means a need for more space. Share It!

Where do young professionals learn their trade? I am sitting in the front row of the General Session - speaker having trouble with her teleprompter - now she is on a roll, describing CRE2020, the major research initiative. Panel discussion being led by Mark Gorman. Also being streamed live via Corenet Global Connect. Will it exist? Share It!

Training is only 5% of organizational learning , but for a long time this small slice has been the primary focus of most Learning & Development (L&D) departments. Social media are fantastic tools to support organizational collaboration and informal learning. Enable Learning. Support Learning.

It’s basically a resource for anybody within the team to write something internally about something that they’ve learned or if they attended a conference they can share some thoughts,” Wen explains. Remote working is often about practicing what you preach. Sell an online meeting product? For the answer, just ask Harvest.

Learn why 90 percent of the Global 1000 and two-thirds of the world’s Internet exchanges rely on Brocade at brocade.com/everywhere Today’s businesses require highly virtualized and services-on-demand environments. And that’s causing the network as we have known it to undergo a dramatic change. The future is built in.

Learn how to use visual collaboration across mobile devices; develop flexible, remote curriculum; exceed student demands; and engage and educate more of the next generation. Today’s video technology makes education more flexible, rich and accessible than ever before. www.PolycomMovement.com/gom1

When Does Learning Begin? Think Tank | Big Think. link]. You Are Not Your Brain | Think Tank | Big Think

His research findings showed that the average life expectancy of large companies is about 30 years, but some are over 200 years old, and the key driver for their longevity is organizational learning. Individual learning in organizations is irrelevant, as work is almost never done by one person alone. Knowledge cannot be transferred.

I’m now focused on working smarter , helping organizations integrate learning into the workflow, especially using social media. Informal Learning InternetTime PKM SocialLearningOne of the consultant’s dilemmas is that you have to stay ahead of the curve to remain relevant. This is professional development in perpetual Beta.

The following points are the most important takeaways that I’ve learned while heading up recruiting. We’re still learning and adjusting our principles with every additional hiring decision. ve worked on a number of teams and witnessed varying degrees of cohesion. Only hire people who make others want to be around them.

  I also learned why the olive groves are terraced with store walls. You can only reach via this hike unless youcome down from a canyon above them. You can do it is less time but we went slowly. Then we hung out on the beach for a while. It did not make since as trees can grow on the side of a hill unlike grapes vines, rice, etc.

If we’ve learned anything about Apple over the years, it’s that Apple is driven by its hardware business. Ever since the Pebble watch became an cause célèbre in tech circles for its kickass Kickstarter moves  (it’s raised almost $7mm dollars and counting), something’s been nagging me about the company and its product.

serve on two faculty senate committees — Online Learning and Assessment. worked with a task force to develop learning outcomes that describe the breadth of our library instruction program, and then worked to build some buy-in with the instruction librarians. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State.

meta-learning technologyI’m a real fan of styles, ala Microsoft Word. If you don’t get  this concept, I wish you would. Let me explain. The concept is fairly simple. Then you define what a heading one looks like: bold, font size 14, with space before of 6 pts, and space after of 6 pts, etc. Why use styles? Several reasons.

“If they have to learn anything, if they have to read anything, if they have to watch a video even, they will be completely turned off by the tool. As far as collaboration tools go, Wiggio isn’t flashy. The company announced today it has reached one million users, about 75 percent of which are students. Image courtesy of Wiggio.

Well-defined innovation tasks are far better put out to the crowd than done internally, as many of the world’s largest organizations such as IBM, Boeing, and Procter & Gamble have learned. Internet dystopian Andrew Keen , author most recently of Digital Vertigo, has just spoken at TheNextWeb Summit and Conference. .

Work is learning and learning is the work. Yet too much of our organizational learning is focused on the 5% that is not at work , and usually sitting in a classroom or staring at a screen clicking the next button. Learning is the new Black. Informal Learning InternetTimeCheck out the back of the t-shirt too.

Paradox #1: To achieve success, learn from failure Paradox #2: To develop greatness, practice humility Paradox #3: To foster learning, emphasize doing Paradox #4: To accelerate development, slow down Paradox #5: To excel at the task, harness relationships Click through to read explanations for each paradox.

I learned that the 'best of the best,' tend to share the following eight core beliefs." Sales guru Geoffrey James has a great article up on Inc. The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company and team dynamics," he says. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield. company is a community, not a machine.

What Enterprise Software Vendors Could Learn from the Consumer Space Personal tools lead to practical business NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout. Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome and Apps, Google (left) and Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager, Google (right). Do you want to put about 16 terabytes of data online? Go figure!

It’s a slightly different take than my previous meta-mobile post where I looked at performance support, formal learning, and meta-learning. I see augmenting formal learning as one, providing performance support as a second, social media as a 3rd area, and the unique mobile contribution of context-sensitive support as a 4th area.

Social learning in a big deal now. See for example, my review of The New Social Learning. This effort involved learning new technology and new business processes and attitudes. So we decided to turn the traditional learning model on its head. We decided that we were not going to train people at all.  

We will be discussing the paper “The implementation and evaluation of a new learning space: a pilot study” on Wednesday 25th April at 12 noon til 1pm Second Life time (that's starting 8pm UK time, see [link] for times elsewhere). 2012) “The implementation and evaluation of a new learning space: a pilot study.” and Randall, M. link].

In 2007 I started blogging with the intention of learning and trying to determine if blogging and other online tools could be useful for my organization. I quickly learned the value of open sharing which led me to Creative Commons, open source, open education, and open science. To learn, we must do. Tweet.

Let me get one of the quibbles out of the way at the start: I  hate  the title “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” (to the point I previously wrote a post arguing instead for ‘ engagification ‘). I very much like this statement, however: “The gamification of learning cannot be a random afterthought.

Paterson - Designing and Implementing an Information Literacy Course in the Humanities: Ellen Daugman, Leslie McCall, Kaeley McMahan - Design to learn, learn to design: Using backward design for information literacy instruction : Bruce E. Volume 5, number 2 (2012) of Communications in Information Literacy has been published. Burke.

The workshop will include a number of Expert Panellists who will share their experiences and lessons learned and engage in conversation with the participants. On 1 May I am running a half-day Crowdsourcing for Startups and Social Innovation workshop at Hub Westminster. Crowdsourcing is at the heart of how value is going to be created.

There is tremendous value gained, both in terms of learning and development, from an exchange that meets that definition. He surveyed the members who had posted the questions that started each discussion thread, asking them to rate their learning from high to low and to specify the performance that resulted from the answers they received.

Powerpoints and a short abstracts from presentations at the Missing Link conference held at Birmingham City University in March 2012 are available. link] Photo by Sheila Webber: Spring ivy, April 2012. UK academic sector Information Literacy

As I’ve discussed before, when I’m talking about ‘ big L ‘ learning, I’m covering research, performance, innovation, creativity as well as more typical execution. Which is one of the reasons I like  mobile learning, because it’s a real game changer. Please. So  not courses. A good thing. mobile

To put this another way, wisdom can be learned and so it can indeed be taught, but only if we are willing to re-conceptualize education. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. Quote via @karlpro. ” by @AnneBB. Roger Schank : How to teach wisdom: induce colossal failure repeatedly.

Such groups include freshman learning communities, international students, graduate students, and faculty. There is a call for papers for Academic Exchange Quarterly , Fall 2012. They see articles on various topics for the special section: The Many Faces of Information Competence. How can we identify constituencies being underserved?

The conversation was recorded and will be available at the Social Learning Centre shortly. Use the tools you have already for social learning. You should get new hires to share their learning and narrate their work via blogs (one blog, multi-user) by just making it a part of the work process. Informal Learning WorkTweet.

In too many cases we view learning as something that is done to people. ” We need to look at work and learning together. workscape perspective can help us see how learning and working are interrelated in a business environment that is a complex, interconnected ecosystem today. It didn’t work. Jay Cross. Tweet.

How much more learning might have countless startups gathered, had they been able to truly capture the real time intentions of their customers at such an event? Neon Indian at Coachella last weekend. Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of taking two days off the grid and heading to a music festival called Coachella. ”).

You can learn all about me from my profile!” wouldn’t have been as surprised if he hadn’t thought I could “learn all about him.” I once had a conversation at a networking event where I asked the person if they were on LinkedIn. said I’d send an invitation from my phone to make sure we could stay in touch. He said “Great! Need help?

They are major drivers for learning, development and growth. One of my current projects involves managing an online community of practice for professionals who help people with disabilities find employment. For the past year we've struggled to get folks engaged. Often it feels like I'm throwing information into a digital abyss. .

Sometimes it helps to learn out loud – LOL. The Personal Knowledge Management workshop , starting this Monday, 23 April, provides a loose framework to try out some new ways of learning for yourself, but with a small group of people to help and support you. That’s why we commit to formalized activities. Registration Link.

Phase 3 of the Welsh Information Literacy Project has been awarded to Coleg Llandrillo’s Library and Learning Technology Service (LLTS), led by Andrew Eynon. The main streams are concerned with Public Libraries, Schools/Education, and Information Literacy for Employability. Information Literacy - policy Wales Information Literacy

Now, with continuing increases in bandwidth and other advances, corporate stories could become more recognized as a major source of organizational learning able to be managed through technology. “Sometime reality is too complex. Fiction gives it form.” Jean Luc Godard. Stowe was referred to as the old lady who started the Civil War. Roud, R.

Knowledge management has been around for over twenty years now. still feel it was the precursor to enterprise 2.0 and social business. It had its own precursors like performance support. Here is a story of its midpoint. It was my favorite project because of the people we worked with. In 1996 the company sold its consumer truck-rental business.

Jane Hart , in a very preliminary survey, shows the top three ways that people prefer to learn at work: Collaborative working within your team. Markets are conversations ~ Cluetrain Manifesto. … and so are organizations. 2 ) getting more people who you personally know to know each other. Esko Kilpi. Conversations. We narrate our work.

What did you learn (from the exercise)? Another fun, quick read. This time from James Lawther on the topic of Benchmarking: the Easy and Hard Way. Benchmarking is a beguiling idea. You look at how your competitors do things, work out what is the best practice and then implement it. Benchmarking should create real competitive advantage.

Is online learning the answer? Suggestions for how to improve college differ, but all seem to revolve around the same central axis – pulling the ivory tower down a little bit closer to the teeming activity on the ground and tying the things we learn in the classroom more firmly to the work we hope to do in the world after graduation.

Why is this the trend happening, and what can we learn from it in the context of knowledge sharing and social collaboration? Since a few months there is a big trend on the web: visualisation of data and information. It is definitely not a new trend, though it is accelerating fast; new tools like visua.ly

Here are some more links to reports and content from the LILAC information literacy conference last week. 2nd photo by Ruth Stubbings (on Flickr) showing the LILAC team with speaker Tara Brabazon. target="_blank". lilac12 Information Literacy

This is why, in the network era, work is learning and learning is the work. This is where activity streams and micro-blogging have helped organizational learning. Narration of work is the first step in integrating learning into the workflow. Work is changing. Known Problems and Exceptions. It is now known. Conclusion.

I just read a great article in the Wall Street Journal , by the former head of TSA, titled Why Airport Security Is Broken—And How to Fix It. His conclusion is that "To be effective, airport security needs to embrace flexibility and risk management—principles that it is difficult for both the bureaucracy and the public to accept."

It’s come up in a couple of ways how my (in progress) activity-based framework for learning is related to other models, e.g. performance-based learning. Better engagement and learning outcomes are the big win. First, there’s already an activity-based learning out of India! design meta-learning

am particularly excited about the Crowd Business Models workshop in Sydney on Monday because we have three absolutely awesome expert panellists to discuss crowd business models, what it means to them, what they have done, and what they have learned along they way about the succcessful implementation of crowd business models.

Individual contributors need to learn how to delegate to the floor and remember that it isn't possible to get everything done today. Everyone claims to know what their priorities are. But do they know what to ignore? What to say "no" to? What NOT to do today? List 2: Your ignore list. Many people know where to focus. Managers delegate.

Hannon Library, An Introduction to the Research Process , and this page is about forming the question: [link] - Free version of the article by keynote-r Megan Oakleaf: "Are They Learning? Learning Outcomes and the Academic Library." Are We? The Library Quarterly , 81 (1), 61-82. lilac12 Information Literacy

Just imagine if the idea that the only knowledge we can manage is our own informed our organizations and our approach to learning and development? Perhaps like this school in Bat-Yam where children direct their own learning and involve the entire community to help them achieve their personal learning goals. Tweet.

In a previous post I laid out the initial framework for rethinking learning design, and in a subsequent post I elaborated the activity component. One of the driving points behind the model was to move away from content-driven learning, and start focusing on learning experience. design meta-learning social strategy

Negativity breeds complacency I've found and a kind of learned helplessness that is difficult to escape. . To me, the most energizing questions are those that involve people's values, hopes and ideals--questions that relate to something that's larger than them where they can connect and contribute. Follow the energy.