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

General Session on Tuesday Afternoon at Masie’s Learning 2012

John Abele was the first one on stage. He has a background in medicine, but is now mainly focused on collaboration. He is the founding chairman of First. He shared a taxonomy of collaboration: Facilitate Command and control Self organizing Adversarial Mass Crowd Sourcing Cascading Pseudeo Next he talked about the characteristics of collaboration leaders: … Continue reading General Session on Tuesday Afternoon at Masie’s Learning 2012