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Excerpt from today’s “Learning Trends” by Elliott Masie

On 10/06/2010, in cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Google, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie – Oct 6, 2010.
#642 – Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
55,171 Readers – http://www.masie.com – The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2010 – Oct 24 to 27, Orlando, FL, USA.

Deloitte Building New Corporate University — Google Learning to the Cloud: I love the diversity of Learning Strategies that are developing in our field. Two different (and yet connected) approaches can be found in diverse sessions at Learning 2010:

“Deloitte University: Going Physical in a Virtual Age”
Led by Bill Pelster, Principal, National Director Talent Development for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

In October 2011, Deloitte will open a 750,000 square foot state-of-the-art learning facility in Westlake, TX. Deloitte University will be a central destination for delivering leading-edge leadership and professional development at critical moments in the careers of our professionals. Learn why we made this investment, our strategy for delivering in-person and virtual training, and the transformation process we underwent to align our learning strategy with our talent strategy and career development.

* The case for investing in a physical learning space.
* The value of face-to-face learning.
* Alignment of learning and talent strategies.

Bringing Cloud Learning to Your Organization: Google’s Approach
Led By: Julie Clow – Organizational Development Manager, Google

The move to cloud-based technologies in the enterprise requires more than just adoption of new tools. It brings with it a shift in culture towards peer-to-peer interaction, which challenges the top-down hierarchical assumptions about how people should work. Cloud “Learning” will require the same shift towards open access to information and peers. Learn how Google is making the shift to Cloud learning through:

* Strategy: the role of peer-to-peer learning in the L&D community
* Culture: how Google’s culture enables broad organizational participation in continuous learning
* Tools: how Google is using CloudCourse for peer-to-peer learning

It will be fun to see how the Physical and Virtual worlds take unique roles in the Learning Strategy of these two companies — and how it translates into unique learning cultures. Join 1,700 learning colleagues at Learning 2010 on Oct 24 to 27 in Orlando. Advanced Registration Discounts: http://www.learning2010.com

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Interesting…”University, IBM to open unique high school in NYC”

On 09/27/2010, in business, career development, corporate / business world, higher education, innovation, vendors, workplace, by Daniel Christian

University, IBM to open unique high school in NYC — By The Associated Press

The City University of New York and IBM will open a unique school that merges high school with two years of college, allowing students to earn an associate’s degree, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday in announcing a series of ambitious educational initiatives.

Those students will be “first in line for a job at IBM,” Bloomberg said in his announcement, made on MSNBC.

The city also will move to a rating system this year designed to ensure teacher tenure is linked to classroom performance. Only teachers rated “effective” or “highly effective” will be awarded lifetime job…

Tagged with: business • career development • corporate / business world • higher education • innovation • vendors • workplace

The cross-generation workforce

On 09/17/2010, in business, corporate / business world, generational differences, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The cross-generation workforce — from Forbes.com by Andy McLoughlin
How will businesses deal with the technological chasm?

The workforce as we know it is changing. Digital natives, or Millennials, are knocking on the doors of organizations across the globe. This young generation is accustomed to being connected from any location, at any time of day. They’ve never known life without the Internet, they always carry their cellphone, they spend hours chatting via instant messaging tools, and photos are shared with friends and family via Flickr and social networks. When faced with this digital generation, accustomed to flexibility and openness, traditionally rigid CIOs and IT departments worldwide may soon have a problem.

Tagged with: corporate / business world • generational differences • workplace

The Future of Work (back from Dec 09)

On 09/08/2010, in business, corporate / business world, future, workplace, by Daniel Christian

A sharp video re: The Future of Work (though back from Dec 09, it’s well worth a look if you haven’t seen it — for those in higher ed as well as for those in the corporate/business world; by odesk.com)

Resource from:
free technology for teachers — by Richard Byrne

Taleo to acquire Learn.com

On 09/02/2010, in corporate / business world, training / L&D, vendors, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Taleo to acquire Learn.com
Extends Talent Management Breadth; Powers Social and Formal Learning

Taleo Corporation, the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire strategic partner Learn.com, Inc. for approximately $125 million in cash. With the acquisition, Taleo will extend its Talent Management suite, becoming the only public vendor to offer best-in-class solutions across the four critical components of a talent-optimized organization: recruiting management to source, assess and acquire talent; performance management to establish goals and create career and succession plans; compensation management to establish a true “pay-for-performance” process between corporate objectives and individuals’ contributions; and now learning management to support social and formal development.

Every aspect of Taleo’s ecosystem benefits from this acquisition, here is how…

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In search of pioneering learning architects

On 09/01/2010, in corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, instructional design, learning ecosystem, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

In search of pioneering learning architects — Clive Sheperd

Meet the learning architect
A learning architect designs environments for learning. Like the architect who designs buildings, the learning architect will be responding to a specific brief:

What is the nature of the learning requirement? What knowledge, skills and attitudes is the employer (the client) wishing to engender in the employees working within the business, division or department in question? How will this learning contribute to effective performance?
What jobs are carried out in the target area? How many people are doing these jobs? What are these people like in terms of their demographics, prior learning, ability to learn independently, their motivation and preferences?
Under what constraints must this learning take place? How geographically dispersed is the population? How much time and money is available? What equipment and facilities can be deployed to support the learning?

The learning architect also has a professional responsibility to their client. This requires them to be fully conversant with current thinking in terms of learning methods, acquainted with the latest learning media and up-to-date with developments in the science of learning. As none of these is intuitive and obvious, the client cannot be expected to have this expertise. And for this reason, it is neither sufficient nor excusable for the learning architect to act as order taker.

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The learning architect does not need to directly facilitate learning or be present in all those situations in which learning might be taking place. However, they must know whether or not the learning that is occurring is in line with their plans and their client’s requirements, and that all this is happening at an acceptable speed and cost. And because the only constant in the modern workplace is change, they must be agile enough to respond to shifting requirements, new pressures and emerging opportunities.

From DSC:
I like this metaphor…it reminds me of a graphic that I developed a while back:

Tagged with: corporate training / universities • instructional design • learning ecosystem • training • workplace

Work is changing; is training changing too?

On 08/31/2010, in corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Work is changing; is training changing too? — from The Upside Learning Solutions Blog by Amit Garg

John Hegel lll and John Seely Brown have written an article titled ‘Six Fundamental Shifts in the Way We Work’ on HBR blog. The article summarizes the ideas from their new book – The Power of Pull.

The six shifts they talk about:
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Later on in the posting, Amit states:

I expect the future of training to be shaped sharply by the above listed trends and the advancements in learning technology itself. There is much for business leaders to focus on, and training is one of the important parts of the matrix. Training needs to call for a redefinition of its purpose, process, and structure. Mobile Learning and Social Learning will perhaps be the two biggest elements of an individual’s personal learning environment in the future and both of these only further emphasize the power of pull.

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Another item to help address the changing workplace…

On 08/06/2010, in career development, change, workplace, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
This item is also a good example of the “work swarms” that Gartner’s report was talking about…

Tagged with: career development • change • workplace

Your workplace in 2020: Gartner’s predictions

On 08/06/2010, in career development, change, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Your workplace in 2020: Gartner’s predictions — from itworldcanada.com by Thomas Wailgum for Creator
The market research firm forsees 10 major changes occuring in the next decade. Here are five of the most interesting, with some additional context.

De-routinization of work.
Work swarms.
Attention to patterns.
Hyperconnectedness.
My place.

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An item on the workplace…

On 08/06/2010, in career development, corporate / business world, workplace, by Daniel Christian

By The Numbers: New Employment Statistics from the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey – National Science Foundation — via Reid Cornwell on the The Center for Internet Research’s NING-based site

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From DSC: Whether you agree with everything here, you need to read this one…

On 07/21/2010, in 24x7x365 access, business, business side of he, career development, change, changing business models, colleges, community colleges, competency-based learning/education, corporate / business world, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, disruption, education reform, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, face-to-face, faculty, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, innovation, leadership, learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, more voice more choice more control, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, pace of change, personalized/customized learning, strategy, teaching & learning, traditional / tradition, universities, using teams, workplace, by Daniel Christian

From Spring 2010

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From DSC:

**If you are even remotely connected to higher education, then you need to read this one!**

Most certainly, not everything that Thomas Frey says will take place…but I’ll bet you he’s right on a number of accounts. Whether he’s right or not, the potential scenarios he brings up ought to give us pause to reflect on ways to respond to these situations…on ways to spot and take advantage of the various opportunities that arise (which will only happen to those organizations who are alert and looking for them).

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Connectivism in the Enterprise — G. Siemens

On 07/15/2010, in business, Canada, instructional design, learning theories, social learning / networks, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Connectivism in the Enterprise — G. Siemens (July 2010)

Organizations are today faced with continually evolving markets, rapid knowledge growth, competitive pressures from emerging countries, and increased complexity in business development and strategy execution. This climate requires an evaluation of how existing learning, knowledge management, and capacity building activities support organizations in fulfilling their mandate and vision.

Traditional course-based learning and development is not sufficiently agile, flexible, or context-driven to address the pressures facing the enterprise. Three primary concerns exist with course-based learning and instructional design…

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Learning to change report — from Learning Conversations

On 07/07/2010, in business, economics, instructional design, strategy, training / L&D, UK, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Learning to change report — from Learning Conversations by Mark Berthelemy

“We’ve just published a research report, based on the opinions of senior decision makers among the UK’s largest 500 firms. Here are some of the findings.”

The majority (70%) of business leaders fear that inadequate staff skills are the greatest threat to their ability to capitalise on the recovery.

More than two thirds of business leaders admit that their under-trained workforce is struggling to cope with expanded job remits following waves of job cuts during recession.

… as the economy moves out of the downturn, two fifths (40%) of leaders estimate that at least half of employee skills risk becoming obsolete.

Over a third of leaders (36%) lack confidence that their employees have the skills required to deliver the firm’s upturn strategy, with close to half (46%) casting doubt on their L&D department’s ability to provide these learning services.

Over half (55%) claim that their firm is failing to deliver the necessary training for recovery.

Around half fear for their company’s ability to respond to surges in demand (51%), retrain and redeploy people where required (47%) and identify where current skills are becoming obsolete (49%).

More than two thirds (67%) of business leaders are concerned their employees are struggling to cope with expanded remits following job cuts.

More than half (52%) describe their L&D function as slow to respond to the changing requirements of their business during economic turbulence.

As strategic objectives have evolved, close to half (46%) of senior managers report no significant change in the training delivery to their workforce. Going forward, almost as many (43%) expect no significant change to L&D delivery over the next 2-3 years.

The vast majority (82%) of leaders lack confidence that their firm’s L&D strategy and delivery are aligned to the company’s operational strategy.

Half (50%) believe that their L&D function is stuck in a ‘business as usual’ mindset.

Another interesting quote here:

“Perhaps L&D needs to rebrand – towards performance consulting… Often performance problems are more around culture, systems, processes and communication. Solve those, and you won’t need to provide training in a lot of cases.”

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Interesting…”University, IBM to open unique high school in NYC”

The cross-generation workforce

The Future of Work (back from Dec 09)

Taleo to acquire Learn.com

In search of pioneering learning architects

Work is changing; is training changing too?

Another item to help address the changing workplace…

Your workplace in 2020: Gartner’s predictions

An item on the workplace…

From DSC: Whether you agree with everything here, you need to read this one…

**If you are even remotely connected to higher education, then you need to read this one!**

Learning to change report — from Learning Conversations

From DSC — The “new language” continues to develop

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