1

can you remember can you remember one great one great learning experiencelearning experience you have you have

had?had?

2

where did this learning where did this learning experience occur?experience occur?

A. in a classroom or workshop?

B. while trying to complete a task?

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7 challenges for the21st century workforce

(and ‘lack of knowledge’ isn’t one of them)

1.Rapid information growth

2.Dealing with increasingly unstructured information

3.Experiencing shortening information half-life

•Expecting to be always connected

•Dealing with increasingly complex interactions

•Managing higher levels of ambiguity that require judgement

•Change, change, change … roles, jobs, strategy, focus …

7 challenges for the21st century workforce

(and ‘lack of knowledge’ isn’t one of them)

1.Rapid information growth

2.Dealing with increasingly unstructured information

3.Experiencing shortening information half-life

•Expecting to be always connected

•Dealing with increasingly complex interactions

•Managing higher levels of ambiguity that require judgement

•Change, change, change … roles, jobs, strategy, focus …

Informal Learning & the Changing World of Work

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Thomas Kuhn and Paradigm Shifts

“We can no longer posit that miasma causes disease or that ether carries

light”

Learning IS the Work

Informal:Not ‘haphazard’ or ‘random’.Can only be ‘managed’ by the

learner

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Or that Industrial Age educational

techniques work in the 21st Century

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Learning IS the Work

Informal:Not ‘haphazard’ or ‘random’.Can only be ‘managed’ by the

learner

From ‘Know What’ to ‘Know How’

Experience-rich learning rather than content-rich learning

Focus is on ‘knowledge

transfer’content-rich experience-

poor

Core

ExperiencesPractice

ConversationsReflection

Focus is on ‘building know-

how’‘content-find’

experience-rich

From Content to Context

Learning through doing rather than learning through

knowing

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LearningProfessionalscan manage

Learningprofessionalscan support

Learningprofessionalscan learn from

Background : Harold Jarche & Jane Harthttp://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2010/03/04/categorising-learning-some-more-thoughts/ http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/interdependent-learning

Background : Harold Jarche & Jane Harthttp://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2010/03/04/categorising-learning-some-more-thoughts/ http://www.jarche.com/2010/03/interdependent-learning

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