Living in Learning

MAY 19, 2010

With the rapid shift to informal learning, the LMS is being dethroned as the center of the learning systems universe. While still important, a more critical role to support the convergence of learning assets and workflows requires consideration of robust EPSS technology to play a pivotal role in the very near future.

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Living in Learning

JULY 31, 2009

Too many pundits have been pontificating that there is a shift underway – a shift from formal training to informal learning. Training (formal learning) will always be with us. This linkage provides a critical thread of continuity necessary to reinforce learning in the post-training work context. I beg to differ.

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2009

For this to happen, that bear experienced formal learning and acquired some significant skills training; the very same skills you and I learned in our youth. Unfortunately, it does not, and if our contribution to their learning stops there, we may as well be training bears. The Role of Formal Learning. Where do they work?

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Living in Learning

JULY 21, 2009

I follow several learning-oriented blogs on a regular basis, and I have witnessed numerous conversations about formal versus informal learning. Discussions range from determining impact to defining strategies around integrating informal learning into a formal mindset. Quite honestly, it is “learning”!

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 6, 2009

On July 23rd, Josh Bersin spoke as a panelist in “The Future of the Business of Learning” and shared that an employee spends 4% of their time in formal training. We have to break out of the eddy of traditional training and get out into the current of work to facilitate learning in the flow of work context. Here we go!

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Blended Learning Diversity Training Social Networks Training 100

Living in Learning

JULY 24, 2009

The future of learning truly is NOT now because we are not ready for it…nor are we at a state of readiness even if it were now. The program hosted by Tony Karrer with support from Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, and Ray Jimenez, all recognized names in the learning industry, was a successful effort. I could not agree more.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2009

The concept of a learning shift represents a course correction by the USS Training Department. Choose a metaphor of your own; bottom-line is painfully clear – the learning game has changed, and our tactics and methodologies that worked so well in a traditional “training war” are not as effective in a non-traditional battle. Figure 1.1.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 8, 2009

My point is this – training is no longer our primary source of viable learning. That frame of reference grew in scope similar to expansion in scope when we consider the role training plays in a continuous learning environment. I am living in learning. We wake up each day in a continuous learning environment. Well…not so.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 23, 2012

These pressures beg the question, “Why would we not provide a learning environment that supports our workforce that is any less continuous?” Clearly, the rules of engagement for training have changed. We are facing a tipping point. We need different results.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 19, 2012

My only hope is that training organizations hear the noise and embrace the implications of new skills and integration of learning @ the point of work before they hear another sound – the firing squad blasting away at their training budget. Methinks this evolution is going to make more noise than a dramatic shift of thinking.

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Performance Support Support Performance Budget 186

Living in Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Integrating Performance Support (PS) as part of a corporate learning strategy is one of the toughest sales we will ever have to make. The advent of Experience API [a.k.a. Tin Can], becoming a reality in early 2013, is turning the conversation from, "Do we really need to go there?" to a more urgent dialog of "Why didn't we see this coming?"

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Have you ever explained something to someone who is either hearing it for the first time or is still trying to get their head wrapped around the concept? You know how they will nod slowly in seeming agreement while looking off into the ether and saying dreamily, “Yeah…” really, really slowly?”

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Living in Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Last week [October 25th] I had the distinct privilege of sitting in on the Tin Can API break-out session that was presented by Aaron Silvers of ADL. I’m not sure of his exact title, but his role was in a leadership capacity on the Tin Can API project. His business card says “the Beard”…and while that was accurate, I still don’t know his real title.

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Living in Learning

MARCH 3, 2011

I have been writing for months on the topic of “convergence”, often referring to it as an impending collision between two business-critical moments – learning need and flawless human performance in the work context.

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Living in Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

Many of us cut our professional learning design teeth using the long-held tradition of the ADDIE instructional design (ISD) model. The “environment” I reference is manifest in the new face of where we learn – our learning environment. As training departments go, most are not equipped to sustain a learning environment.

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Instructional Design ADDIE Blended Learning Design 170

Living in Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Looking back on that fateful day, I can laugh at that lesson in learning, but at the time of actual learning, it was not nearly as amusing. There is more to add to the impending doom by considering the attributes of the environment in which I learned my lesson. Trust me; this one is evidence-based.

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Performance Support Performance Training Train 100

Living in Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2009

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