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As a prelude to a small webinar I’ll be doing next week (though it also serves to tee up the free Best of mLearnCon   webinar I’ll be doing for the eLearning Guild next week as well, here’re some deliberately provocative thoughts on mobile: According to Tomi Ahonen , mobile is the fastest growing industry ever. But just because everyone has one, what does it mean ? I think the implications are broader, but here I want to talk specifically about work and learning. I want to suggest that it has the opportunity to totally upend the organization. So why is this game-changing? MORE >>

You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: Best Buy, a renown electronics retailer perhaps better known for its khaki pants and blue shirt dress code, could be viewed analagously with that of an evolved corporate learning structure. Imagine that you’re at one of their corporate stores. What do you see when you enter the store? There she/he is, the greeter: “Hello sir, how are you today?” There are no commissions at Best Buy to make a sale. Employees are there, quite literally, to help you as necessary. Those walkways are debatable at best. Want more? MORE >>

As the The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Blog Book Tour has been underway, another interesting discussion has been occurring in the learning blogosphere. It was sparked by Ruth Clark’s article “ Why Games Don’t Teach. The article kicked off a firestorm of debate, demands for proof and even name calling. Christy Tucker addresses the question in her post. There is a healthy discussion on the eLearning Guild’s LinkedIn group. In Guy Wallace’s post on the subjec t, he quotes Dr. Richard Clark talking about the “ideologically committed gamester.” The Argument. So we’ll start there. MORE >>

I’m trying to get my mind around how the information we’re finding out about expertise matches to the types of problems people face. Clearly, you want to align your investments appropriately to situations you face. If you look across the literature on expertise, and the recent writing on how our brains work (c.f. Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow ), you see an emerging picture of expertise. Starting with the types of problems, there are more than just the problems we know and the ones we don’t. Then there are the complex problems that require deeper expertise. MORE >>