Connected learning in the workplace: the next generation of learning practices — from janeknight.typepad.com by Jane Hart
Excerpt:
A recent article in Wired Magazine, Collaboration and Conversation: The next generation of working practices summarises it nicely
“Today’s enterprises are seeing and experiencing the value of both social software and cloud-based content collaboration systems. By connecting people and giving them the means to discuss, unlock and increase knowledge sharing across the workforce, these services are driving productivity and increasing efficiency in organizations across the globe.”
As a result, through this knowledge sharing in the new connected workplace, employees are learning very differently; they are learning continuously, autonomously and socially – as they carry out their daily work. In consequence, this now means that we need a new generation of “organised” learning practices – ones that are closer to the ways that people are now working and learning in their jobs.