The traditional ‘learning’ folks are trying to sort out how to revolutionize the industry by augmenting their formal learning strategies to incorporate social media, social learning, social networking and the like. Also good to see, but at times I see these folks in other companies plodding along without involvement of the Learning side of the house, or the technology outfits. are busy trying to synchronize existing investments with new instances of 2.0 They often do so without synchronizing their efforts with the Learning function(s) or the HR/OD groups. MORE >>

As I unplugged for almost 4 weeks during the summer, I began mentally noodling what the tetrads may look like in terms of a Learning 2.0 define Learning 2.0 in a corporate learning setting as follows: Philosophy – shifting from training is an event, to learning is continuous, connected & collaborative. simply put – moving from solely formal classroom and eLearning, to formal, informal and social learning concepts). learning 2.0 Shamefully, I didn’t know about the book until this year, courtesy of Jon Husband. MORE >>

If you read some of the predictions for 2009  that were compiled by Lisa Neal Gualtieri at eLearn Magazine, you may have noticed that people foresee a resurgence of informal learning, especially in new, e-mediated forms.  While I agree that many people have developed some savvy with really cool tools, using those tools for learning is a different skill set.  One of the challenges I think we need to address is the need to teach people a new way to learn.  Here’s what I mean: Learning Skill. Learning 2.0 One of the promises of web 2.0 MORE >>

Yesterday on video I heard myself stumbling to describe the April 21 session of Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation. said our theme is improving performance with “natural/informal/web 2.0/connected/social learning. This new learning is strategy, not support. Today’s learning is a mash-up of performance support, internal communications, collaboration, social software, real-time feeds, organization development, what’s left of knowledge management, collective intelligence, search, nurturing communities, and traditional learning. MORE >>

As I’ve previously written about, the new Cultural Trinity of implementing a new Leadership Framework, along with Learning 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, Couple this with a formal-informal-social Learning 2.0 model and Enterprise 2.0 That’s where open, informal and social learning gets woven into the fabric of ‘us’ as leaders in the org. If this is embedded into the leadership framework, then we certainly will need to back this up by Learning 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 As Learning 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 components. MORE >>