Yesterday, I wrote a post on Learning vs. Performance – the Dichotomy. It was more of a theoretical exposition on why learning doesn’t necessarily translate into performance, and delved into some of the psychological and behavioral aspects of the same. Why is it that learning and training don’t translate into performance? Why are businesses failing? In today’s post, I have tried to analyze the learning – performance dichotomy from a more practical standpoint. MORE

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix. The catch is that “social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. How is this change related to social learning? MORE

I might quibble with Jane Hart’s assertion that continuous learning is a new role for learning and development professionals. Workers don’t need a course schedule ; they need to continually acquire new knowledge, new skills, and new attitudes. And they need L&D professionals to help them with this learning. Hart writes that L&D professionals must change their role in these ways: From “order takers” to business partners [working as a partner with team managers]. MORE

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix. The catch is that “social learning” cannot just be implemented or enforced. How is this change related to social learning? MORE

ABOUT CLIVE SHEPHERD (Founding Director – The More Than Blended Learning Company): Clive Shepherd is a consultant learning technologist. He works with a broad range of public and private sector organisations internationally, helping them to build capability in the application of new media to learning, and to transform workplace learning through the effective integration of formal, informal, on-demand and experiential learning. MORE

Best of eLearning Learning. Instructional Design and E-Learning Blogs - Experiencing eLearning , July 6, 2010 Back when I wrote my instructional design careers series in 2007, I was only aware of a few blogs by instructional designers. Since then, I’ve discovered a wealth of blogs by instructional designers, e-learning developers, and workplace learning specialists. 0160; A few weeks ago I created a survey about Mobile Learning. Peer in learning. MORE

“Digital mindset” seems to have become another buzzword–rather buzz-phrase to be grammatically precise–whenever the conversation (online or offline) veers toward social business, social learning, collaboration, and other 21st Century phenomenon in general. Exceptions, unusual business models disrupting traditional ways of operating, disruptive tech with their emergent nature, all fall in the Complex category. MORE

Then, as man evolved to the agrarian stage, around 12,000 years ago, he learned to domesticate a few animals and, alongside, grow crops. So we know that game based learning and gamification are not new. With so many types of games and sports, there should be no dearth of ideas to gamify the learning of a subject in educational and business settings. All of us are gamification specialists in a way. It can change attitudes from ‘I have to’ to ‘I want to’. MORE

We just have to look around us and we will find umpteen examples of traditional operational and business models giving way to the innovative, agile and connected models of the 21st Century – AirBnB, Uber, Alibaba are poster kids on the block but there are many more coming up just waiting to disrupt the known ways of doing business. This in turn makes it difficult for them to be learning agile or to adjust to a rapidly changing and ambiguous world. MORE

Then, as man evolved to the agrarian stage, around 12,000 years ago, he learned to domesticate a few animals and, alongside, grow crops. So we know that game based learning and gamification are not new. And this can be further divided into another lengthy list.With so many types of games and sports, there should be no dearth of ideas to gamify the learning of a subject in educational and business settings. All of us are gamification specialists in a way. MORE