Learning: what are you talking about?
Editor’s note: Some provocation from Nick Schakleton-Jones here. Will the future of L&D be education or more experience design?
Browsing: learning
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30 articles from 2019 to take us into 2020
Editor’s note: Jane Hart has pulled together a wonderful set of links from 2019 covering a the topics of continuous learning, the changing role of managers and the new work of L&D teams.
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How do you turn around the culture of a 130,000-person company? Ask Satya Nadella
Editor’s note: In recent years Microsoft has become an incredibly successful company. A part of its success is the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella and his focus on learning.
It’s not learning. That’s a problem for L&D and organisations
The number one way in which people learn at work is not perceived by employees…
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Burn your training request form
Editor’s note: Cathy Moore provides a some suggestions on how to put a stop to receiving training request forms from the business and instead turn them into what she calls a ‘development request’. Some great tips here.
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Looking at Learning Through an Evolutionary Lens
Editor’s note: This is a fascinating exploration of how we have evolved to learn. A most read for L&D professionals keen to understand some of the science behind how humans learn.
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Competitive advantage with a human dimension: From lifelong learning to lifelong employability
Editor’s note: There are some interesting pointers in this article as to what corporate learning could evolve in to. It’s less about learning and more about employability, so more of a focus on helping people develop the skills at certain times of change throughout their working lives.
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Challenging business assumptions about how workers learn
Editor’s note: You’ll find this useful if you need evidence to support a case for putting employees at the heart of learning design. Research of 10,000 employees by Towards Maturity shows what employees are looking for from L&D.
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Listen to the children. This is what ‘good’ teaching looks like to them
Editor’s note: Thanks to Nick Shackleton-Jones for sharing this piece on students’ views on teaching. Note the importance of relationships between the teacher and student. This is the most important factor affecting engagement in learning.
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The word ‘learning’ is used to mean many different things
Editor’s note: Chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute is looking at creating some guiding principles for workplace L&D. In this piece he explores the first principle and that is that the word ‘learning’ is used to mean many different things. It’s an interesting piece and associated discussion.
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What triggers adults to participate in learning?
Editor’s note: This piece is focused on adult learning in general, as opposed to workplace learning, but it raises some interesting points about the drivers for learning and what triggers adults to want to learn new things.
Video of the week: Disrupting learning
In this video, former head of online #learning at BP Nick Shackleton-Jones slays some sacred…
How do YOU learn at work?
Editor’s note: I liked this diagram, which tells the story of the myriad ways in which L&D professionals learn at work. Hold this up against how your organisation currently delivers learning and see where the gaps are.
How to supercharge the way you learn
Editor’s note: Although more education focused, this article gives some good insights into the science of learning, especially remembering information.
What skills do learners need to learn? #chat2lrn curated tweets
Here are our Twitter highlights from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on the #skills learners need…