I’m still pondering the Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for March about what training might look like in 2019. These videos from Microsoft Office Labs envision technology ten years out. Just imagine working with this stuff! These videos remind me of the concept video of John Sculley showing the then-hypothetical Apple Newton.

But, let us indulge ourselves and try and look for patterns in the clouds. Changing demographics In 2019, the US workplace will be 10 years “younger”! Meaning folks who are too young to enter the workforce in 2009, would have entered by 2019, and the current old folks would have retired.  elearning , Collaboration , NetBooks , Performance Support , GenX , GenY , Immersive Learning , rapid elearning John Medina in his keynote address at the eLearning Guild November 2008 conference talked about how the fundamentals of how a person learns do not change decade on decade – in fact, it is an evolutionary process.

They will be extinct by 2019. The March Big Question from Learning Circuits is What will workplace learning look like in 10 years? Here are some of the things I see in 10 years: We will see much more informal learning and knowledge management. There will be a need for trainers

The survey canvassed 2019 people working in companies with more than fifty employees, evenly divided across eight European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK). There's plenty to ponder in the results of Rethinking Learning , a report published in June by SkillSoft and based on research conducted on their behalf by OnePoll. Here are some of the findings that grabbed my attention: A large majority (67%) would like their employer to offer more opportunities for learning and 76% think they could be more effective and productive at work if

Don't be daft. So, safe in the knowledge that I'll be retired by then, I'm going to be a party pooper and suggest that workplace learning in 2019 will look something like this: Formal learning will still be going strong but somewhat de-emphasised. Can it be that time again? Another month of my life gone, another Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog .

The primary function of learning professionals within this new work model is connecting and communicating, based on three core processes: * Facilitating collaborative work and learning amongst workers, especially as peers. * Sensing patterns and helping to develop emergent work and learning practices. * Working with management to fund and develop appropriate tools and processes for workers. …redeploying training staff as mentors, coaches, and facilitators who work on improving core business processes, strengthening relationships with customers, and cutting costs.

2019: A New View of Knowledge and Wisdom Moving forward, school curriculum in the U.S. The first Pulitzer Prize to a simulation will be announced in 2019, as well as the greatly diminished use of multiple-choice standardized tests (after years of decline). I wrote this article for Innovate magazine a few months ago, to coincide with the release of Learning Online with Games, Simulations, and Virtual Worlds . While pieces have have been excerpted, many have asked for the complete article, which I am reprinting here.

Workplace learning in 2019: The LCB Big Question for March is, What will workplace learning look like in 10 years? I’ll start by going back 10 years to my workplace and see what is different from early 1999: I

Although it sounds exciting at first, and certainly appeals to the emotions, several practical issues—all of which are ignored by the contributors to the ASTD 2019 discussion—limit the likelihood that organizations would primarily rely on informal learning. Hmmm …. Just got through reading - Long Live Instructor-Led Learning - by Saul Carliner, who is a person I know, like and respect. Wow, did he step in it on this one.

In March 2009 the monthly question on ASTD’s Learning Circuits blog wonders what training will look like in 2019. In March, LCB asked where would workplace learning be in 10 years . I responded that work and learning would continue to be more integrated and later wrote that soft skills, especially collaboration and networking, will become more important than hard skills. Saul Carliner just wrote