{"id":5403,"date":"2010-05-20T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2010-05-20T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T12:06:12","slug":"some-similarities-between-k-20-education-and-the-corporate-trainingld-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/05\/20\/some-similarities-between-k-20-education-and-the-corporate-trainingld-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Some similarities between K-20 education and the corporate training\/L&#038;D worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading today&#8217;s posting by Clive Sheperd entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/clive-shepherd.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/big-question-what-will-workplace.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The  Big Question: What will workplace learning technology look like in  2015?&#8221;<\/a>, I couldn&#8217;t help but reflect upon some similarities between the worlds involved in K-20 education and those involved with corporate training &amp; development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>(From DSC) The status quo has reigned in the past:<\/strong><br \/>\n(From Clive) I\u2019ve been involved in learning technologies for 30 years now and I\u2019d  have to admit that, despite our best efforts, progress, while steady,  has been disappointingly slow. The l&amp;d profession is doggedly  conservative and has been allowed to get away with maintaining the  status quo because both sponsors, from above, and consumers, from below,  have not \u2013 up until recently &#8211; been too bothered about pushing for  change. So, can the next five years break this pattern? Just maybe.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(From DSC) The monetary\/budgetary challenges that we are facing create opportunities<\/strong><br \/>\n(From Clive) The recession has created an opportunity and \u2013 as they say \u2013 you should  never waste a good crisis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(From DSC) <em>Significantly <\/em>integrating technology into our learning environments is not a choice<\/strong><br \/>\n(From Clive) Another five years and practically the whole l&amp;d community will have  been forced to engage with technology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(From DSC) We are in a game-changing environment; the pressure for change continues to mount; the status quo is being left behind with or without our permission<br \/>\n<\/strong>(From Clive) Pressure for change is also increasing from below, from the consumers of  l&amp;d interventions. Much to the amazement of HR, it seems that the  next generation is actively seeking out learning technologies, without  any coercion from above, and often without even asking permission! They  are not going to hang about waiting for the next classroom event when  they can get what they want in a few clicks. Yes, they\u2019ll go along with  all the formal stuff when it\u2019s absolutely necessary as a condition of  employment or career progression, but they won\u2019t rely on it to learn  anything really important.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(From DSC) The technology is there. It will change and continue to get better, but we have what we need to deliver highly interactive, engaging content. But it takes <em>willingness <\/em>to change our ways.<\/strong><br \/>\n(From Clive) That\u2019s all we need to reach just about every sector of the working  population. It doesn\u2019t really matter if it\u2019s Microsoft or Apple, HTML 5 or Flash,  proprietary or open source, so long as it delivers content and allows  humans to interact. Let\u2019s be honest, all the hardware and software we  could possibly want is already here. It\u2019s hearts and minds that have to  be won over, and that takes a lot longer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading today&#8217;s posting by Clive Sheperd entitled, &#8220;The Big Question: What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015?&#8221;, I couldn&#8217;t help but reflect upon some similarities between the worlds involved in K-20 education and those involved with corporate training &amp; development: (From DSC) The status quo has reigned in the past: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,112,200,35,46,118],"tags":[128,566,4],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-game-changing-environment","category-k-12-related","category-training-corporate-universities","tag-corporate-training-universities","tag-higher-education","tag-k-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5407,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}