Leaders I work with across various lines of business often ask for guidance on what they can do to dramatically improve their company’s education function. Those requests lead to writing a report with two colleagues I’ve grown to cherish as friends, Dan Pontefract and Kerry Brown. Our objective in writing this report was to paint a picture of the possibilities. Not rejiggering the conversation, rather changing the game. We hope you find it inspiring, educational, and evocative, leading to new approaches and strategies in corporate education organizations worldwide.
The report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. We want it to spread at no cost with attribution. Read, share, and use.
Please attribute as follows, with a link:
“Revolutionize Corporate Learning: Beyond Formal, Informal, Mobile, Social Dichotomies” by Marcia Conner, Dan Pontefract and Kerry Brown. May 2013. www.marciaconner.com/learning-nouveau/
Fascinated by that cover image? It was taken at the rehearsal for a wedding by Charlottesville wedding and portrait photographer April Bennett. Stephanie Helvin, the performer pictured, is part of the fire troupe Scintillation.
The Learning ARC infographic is by Steve Kizer.
For information about this report or to begin, contact revolution@sensifygroup.com.
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Interested in related materials?
Jane Hart (@C4LPT) at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, has written a wonderful free mini ebook entitled, “The Workplace Learning Revolution” which provides insights and suggestions on making lasting change in the corporate learning ranks and throughout the organization. [Jane is also part of The Internet Time Alliance, a groups of people I greatly admire.]
Change Agents Worldwide is a group of strategic practitioners specializing in Future of Work technologies and practices. One area of their focus is on revolutionizing how people learn inside enterprises. If you work inside a large organization, consider joining in the conversation. They also have a lively CAWW Google+ group.
Jay Cross moderates an always thought-provoking Learning in Organizations Google+ group, in additional to his innovative blog and books.
The Tin Can API is a new specification for learning technology that makes it possible to collect data about the wide range of experiences a person has online and offline. This API captures data in a consistent format about a person or group’s activities from many technologies, demonstrating some of the analytics capabilities we talk about in the paper, but not to be assumed as the solution to managing the unmanageable.