Personal and
Organisational Learning
in the 21st Century
What is the DNA of learning systems?
Serge Ravet, EIfEL
Samantha Slade, percolab.com

What does
a personal learning
environment
(PLE)
look like?

What does
LMS?
an organisational
learning environment
(OLE)
look like?

What does
an organisational
learning environment
(OLE)
look like?

Organisational
What links between
Personal
individual &
organisational
learning
environments?
(ePortfolios)

What competencies for
(instructional) learning
designers, trainers and
human resource managers?

Why do organisations learn?
250
200
*Source CEREQ - France
150
Unqualified workers
Qualified workers
100
Employees
Engineers and supervisors
50 Professionals & management
0
10+ 20+ 50+ 250+ 500+ 2,000+
Studies of the macro-economic returns to “The simple one-way relationship which so
education estimate that increasing the average entrances our politicians and commentators
level of attainment by one year, raises the level of – education spending in, economic growth
output per capita by between 3 and 6 per cent. out – simply doesn't exist.”
OECD Alison Wolf, Does education matter?

Zoé
determined
to learn
how to snorkel
Why do individuals learn?

“Life learned itself
into existence”
James Gleick

Organisational learning
The ability to achieve internal transformation
whilst preserving identity and culture is one of the
main aims of organisational learning.
Organisations, like individuals, learn through
reflection on their own practice, collaborative
research and knowledge networks.

Learning organisations
“…organizations where people continually
expand their capacity to create the results they
truly desire, where new and expansive patterns
of thinking are nurtured, where collective
aspiration is set free, and where people are
continually learning to see the whole together.”
Peter Senge

intelligence Personal mastery
Collective
Mental models
Shared vision
Team learning
System thinking

What technologies?
“Systems Thinking software like STELLA
and iThink is an increasingly valuable tool for
constructing understanding about all kinds of
dynamic systems from natural environments to
team dynamics to economic markets.”
Peter Senge

System thinking

Reflective organisation
Collect
Tacit knowledge Articulating tacit
Sharing and
knowledge through
creating tacit Socialisation Externalisation
knowledge through dialogue and
direct experience reflection
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Tacit knowledge
Explicit knowledge
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Systemising and
acquiring new applying explicit
tacit knowledge in Internalisation Combination knowledge and
practice information
Explicit knowledge
Connect
Adapted from Nonaka, Takeuchi, Konno & Toyama

Reflective organisation
Atelier
Circulaire
Do organisations introspect?

Personal Mastery
The reflective professional

Mario
Asselin,
director of
Opposum
Personal Mastery
Can blogging be part of
professional development?

Personal Mastery
Can a personal wiki serve for
professional lifelong learning?

standoutjobs.com
Organisational Mastery
Expressing organisational
competencies using web 2.0?

Laval region of
Quebec and
immigrants
Regional Mastery
Should regions provide personal/
professional learning environments?

What competencies for
(instructional) learning
designers, trainers and
human resource managers?

Learning vs
instructional design
“Instructional Design
is the practice of arranging media
(communication technology) and
content to help learners and teachers
transfer knowledge most effectively.”
Wikipedia

Learning vs
instructional design
“Learning design
is the practice of arranging media
(communication technology) and
content to help learners and teachers
create knowledge most effectively.”
EIfEL

Global
Brain
Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Agents Knowledge
PLE / OLE
Networks
Enterprise
Degrees of information connectivity
Personal Minds Smart
Assistants Semantic Web Marketplaces
Semantic Web Group
Minds
Meta/implicit Web
Connects Knowledge Connects Intelligence
Personal Learning Environments
Ontologies Knowledge Management
Decentralised
Lifelogs Communities
Semantic
Taxonomies Knowledge Base Weblogs
Marketplace Community
Search Engines Enterprise Portals Auctions Wikis Portals
Electronic Performance Support Systems Virtual
learning Weblogs RSS
environments
Content Portals Website
The Web Groupware Social Web
Learning
Connects information Management Connects People
Social
Databases Systems
E-Mail Usenet Networks
Personal
Push Information Manager
Conferencing
File Servers
P2P File Sharing Instant Messaging
Degrees of social connectivity
Source: Nova Spivacks

He who learns but does
not think, is lost!
He who thinks but does
not learn is in great
danger
Confucius
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