can you remember one great learning experience you

can you remember one great learning experience you have had? 1

where did this learning experience occur? A. in a classroom or workshop? B. while trying to complete a task? Photograph licenced to Duntroon Associates 2

Informal Learning & the Changing World of Work 7 challenges for the 21 st 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 4. Expecting to be always connected 5. Dealing with increasingly complex interactions 6. Managing higher levels of ambiguity that require judgement 7. Change, change … roles, jobs, strategy, focus … 3 3

Learning IS the Work Thomas Kuhn and Paradigm Shifts “We can no longer posit that miasma causes disease or that ether carries light” Or that Industrial Age educational techniques work in the 21 st Century Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) Informal: Not ‘haphazard’ or ‘random’. Can only be ‘managed’ by the learner 4 4

Learning IS the Work From Content to Context Learning through doing rather than learning through knowing From ‘Know What’ to ‘Know How’ Experience-rich learning rather than content-rich learning Focus is on ‘knowledge transfer’ content-rich experience-poor Content Core Focus is on ‘building knowhow’ ‘content-find’ experience-rich Informal: Not ‘haphazard’ or ‘random’. Can only be ‘managed’ by the learner Experiences Practice Core Conversations Reflection 5 5

Learning and 70: 20: 10 Informal Learning and the 70: 20: 10 Model Learning Professionals can manage Formal Structured Learning (FSL) Formal Directed Dependent (Instruction) 10% Formal / Dependent Learning (FSL) 20% (‘through Group Directed Learning (GDL) Learning professionals can support Self-Directed Intra-Organisational Learning (IOL) Interdependent (Social & Collaborative) 70% (through Informal Personal Directed Learning (PDL) Learning professionals can learn from Accidental & Serendipitous Learning (ASL) others’) Informal / Self-Directed / Interdependent Learning (GDL, IOL or PDL) Undirected Independent (Supported by tools & Information) experience and practice) Informal / Self-Directed / either Interdependent or Independent (GDL, IOL, PDL or ASL) Background : Harold Jarche & Jane Hart http: //www. c 4 lpt. co. uk/blog/2010/03/04/categorising-learning-some-more-thoughts/ http: //www. jarche. com/2010/03/interdependent-learning 6