A few days ago I made a posting in which I shared an animated video of a keynote presentation by John Seely Brown in which he talked about the concept of an entrepreneurial learner, and today I’d like to follow up on that post.

To recap, and to explain the term, “enterpreneurial learner”, JSB says:

“This does not mean how to become an entrepreneur. This really means, how do you constantly look around you all the time  for new ways, new resources to learn new things? That’s the sense of entrepreneur I’m talking about that now in the networked age almost gives us unlimited possibility.” Read more →

On 1 October I released the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list, and in my introductory analysis I said

“Whilst there is a clear differentiation between the personal/professional tools and the enterprise tools being used by workplace learning professions, in education teachers are frequently making use of the same toolset for both their teaching and their own personal learning.  In their jobs, workplace learning professionals continue to make heavy use of e-learning authoring tools as well as web conferencing tools (which are on the rise this year by the way), whereas their own personal/professional toolsets include a wider range of social and other tools.:

So in this post, I wanted to take a look at the Top 10 Tools on the 2012 list, and briefly suggest what corporates can learn from them in order to appreciate how workplace learning is a much wider concept than just creating content or running webinars. Read more →

August is typically a quiet month, but there have been plenty of good blog posts and articles around. Here is my pick of the month’s reading – together with a snippet from each one which shows you why it caught my eye. Once again I’ve spotted a number of themes. (Would you like an (almost) daily drip feed of great posts and articles? Then subscribe to Jane’s Pick of the Day).

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“PKM: A set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world & work more effectively.”

Supporting self-managed learners with their Personal Knowledge Management is going to be a key new skill for workplace learning professionals in a social business.
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In my recent webinar, Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace, I shared a slide that showed the 5 stages of workplace learning. This has attracted a lot of interest, and I’ve been asked to talk more about the differences between “learning” in Stages 1-4 and Stage 5.

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During 2012 Harold Jarche and I have been running a series of online workshops at the Social Learning Centre; these have proved to be very popular. In a recent article to be published in the September edition of e.learning age magazine, I describe how we have been doing this, and what I think are the key ingredients for success. Here is the introduction to the article. You can read the full article HERE.

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Today I gave a webinar presentation on Social & Collaborative Learning.

Below is the slideset I made available on Slideshare, but if you would like to read the slide notes and get the links to further resources, you will find them here: Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace

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On Wednesday 22 August at 5 pm BST – that’s 9 AM (PDT) / 12 PM (EDT) – I will be presenting a webinar, hosted by Citrix Online, on Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace. Here’s a description of the event:

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Harold Jarche, in his recent post, Supporting workplace learning, uses a great little diagram to show that -

“It takes much more than courses delivered through a learning management system to support workplace learning in the network era.”

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“If you look closely at people who are succeeding in this new digital world of work, you’ll notice they have something in common: they’re fast learners and they’re willing to adapt. If you want to grow as a person and a worker and if you want to gain skills that will help you take that next step in your career, you’ll probably have to learn those skills on your own.

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