Free-range Learners in the Age of the Ubiquitous Chicken House

The Shrinking uPod

Nodes Top-down Distributed How Networks Evolve as communication costs drop

Human Governance Bands Kingdoms Democracies

Business Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs

Learning One-on-one Classroom Informal

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Learning Redefined Learning is adaptation to change. In uncertain times, the best learners survive. Massive Change Adapt Die or or Evolve Learn

Value Creation Customers My team Other teams Global markets Competition Talent pool Stakeholders Me  Our enterprise internet Value chain Ecosystem

Corporate Learner Individuals neither learn nor exist outside of social ecosystems. You are your connections. Learning is achieving an optimal fit with ecosystems that matter to you.

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paradox Informal Learning http://informl.com

Learning is both creating and consuming knowledge .

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April 2007 Learner Communities that matter

April 2007 Linkages Learner Communities that matter

Slow Fast Content Human consciousness Internet architecture Collaboration News, data Performance support Need for friends & allies

April 2007 Linkages Learner Communities that matter

Bottom-up knowledge Linkages Web 2.0 tools, ‘net inside Findability & speed of access Collaboration, it’s us Learnscape Impatience with status quo Acceptance of complexity Cluetrain candor Small pieces, loosely joined Self-service Web literate Healthy, alert Meta-learner Communication skills Learner Conversation Holistic Mobility Werner von Heisenberg Respect & trust learner Learning culture

Visuals & prototypes Self-service Inside out Conversation Trust the individual Bottom-up knowledge Common good Networks & relationships Web 2.0 tools, ‘net inside Findability & speed of access Collaboration, it’s us Mind-set Impatience with status quo Acceptance of complexity Cluetrain candor Small pieces, loosely joined Self-service Learner Conversation Inside out Visuals & prototypes Mobility Werner von Heisenberg

Complexity Certainty is an illusion. Everything is connected. The future is unpredictable. Nurture, control Fit is the measure of success. Life is full of surprises. (“It” happens.) The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it. The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything. An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide. A company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company. What humans can't engineer, evolution can. Life is a verb not a noun.

Learning Learning is the Work Leverage = help workers learn to learn Learning is participatory Work Focus shifts from delivering programs to nurturing learning ecologies Learning embedded in work: performance support, social networking, ambient findability, great connections