Self Organized Learning Environments: An Assignment

This post is an assignment for the participants of the "Sociale media voor Leren en Veranderen in Organisaties en Netwerken"-leergang by En Nu Online. (Click here to get a Google Translated Dutch version of this post). Last February Sugata Mitra was awarded the TED prize for 2013. The prize money will help him carry out … Continue reading Self Organized Learning Environments: An Assignment

Only the Autodidacts Are Free – Why I Have a Personal Library

Antifragile

I've been reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Antifragile, Things That Gain from Disorder. I've portioned the book into 30 daily chunks of 14 pages each and post a Tweet about those 14 pages every day. The following passage is one of my favourites in the book so far. It very much aligns with my thinking … Continue reading Only the Autodidacts Are Free – Why I Have a Personal Library

Nine Challenges for the Learning Department (Based on Masie’s Learning 2012)

In late October I attended Elliot Masie's Learning Conference. I've blogged extensively about each individual session, but want to use this post to lift out the larger themes that I saw at the event and to ask the corporate learning departments a few challenging questions that relate to these themes. Personalized Learning A few years … Continue reading Nine Challenges for the Learning Department (Based on Masie’s Learning 2012)

Do It Yourself Learning at Masie’s Learning 2012

Marcel de Leeuwe and I hosted a session at Elliott Masie's Learning 2012 about Do It Yourself Learning. We enjoyed ourselves tremendously preparing for the session and created a special website for the conference: doityourselflearning.org. Why DIY? There are a few things happening in the corporate learning world: The business is changing faster than the … Continue reading Do It Yourself Learning at Masie’s Learning 2012