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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

ID Reflections

In that sense, a MOOC is a dynamic and evolving pedagogical form that allows diverse set of learners to come together and form cohorts, to co-create and build the context as they go through the course. Most learners are used to "solo" learning, both in the academic and the corporate world.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 9, 2019

Mike Taylor

Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM). Harold Jarche (@hjarche)has a series of two posts on Personal Knowledge Master (PKM) which I think is one of the most important skills for any professional to have. You can find me at these UPCOMING EVENTS: August 9: AECT Learner Engagement Webinar. Is Training on the Way Out?

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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

To summarize, social and collaborative learning is no longer a good to have add on but a necessity driven by some of the following principles: There are no users, learners, or managers of learning. Communities, conversations, and colleagues connected via mobile devices, social tools, and the web will be the keys to learning.

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L&D needs New Skills

ID Reflections

While we would love to think that employees will--seeing the looming complexities and unpredictability of work today--become self-driven, autonomous learners keen to acquire all the skills and knowledge required, this is not what usually happens. In most cases. Some amount of influencing and negotiating skills will be useful as well.

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The best elearning reads of 2013

eFront

The Connected Learners- A Book by Students for Teachers , Langwitches Blog. 3 ways to becoming a master learner , Erika Anderson. Conversation and collaboration: the next generation of working practices , Wired. L&D: Get into the Enterprise Social Conversation , the work social. Julian Stodd. Mapping with Google.

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Working out Loud and Serendipity

ID Reflections

Thus, w orking out loud is intrinsically linked to two critical aspects of becoming a good learner -- Personal knowledge Management (PKM) and building one''s Personal Learning Network (PLN). Such sharing can trigger serendipity and meaningful conversation -- two of the critical factors that can shape organizational learning.

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The Changing Nature of Workplace Learning

ID Reflections

They have to forego the linear model of analysis --> training --> work with models that enable and empower them to foster communities, facilitate conversations and collaboration, and most importantly, breakdown organizational silos. Collating these stories and sharing add persuasive power to one''s conversation.

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