Social Learning Gets Real

by Jay Cross on November 15, 2009

I always do my best work while asleep and now that I’ve slept two nights since DevLearn, here’s what I’m thinking.

getreal

The last item begs explanation. In the past, we’ve focused on individuals but work is performed by groups. Hence, I expect us to start helping groups learn to perform instead of individuals.

From:

individual

to…

group

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My thanks to Mark Oelhert (our counselor at Social Learning Camp) for helping me sharpen my focus.

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Edwin M. February 20, 2010 at 5:47 am

The transition from individual learning to collaborative efforts targeted at skill acquisition could not have been illustrated better than this. Really simple and effective explanation. The same principles are being applied to formal education at:

Symclub

with good progress so far.

Really nice article.

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