Learning on Demand

[Marc Garnaut]

Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent has a nice post about open source learning in organizations. It includes a link to a great 8 minute video with John Seely Brown.

She says:

"Most learning is social. In a brief conversation with Ulrike Reinhard at SCOPE|08: The Future of Learning, John Seely Brown, Chief of Confusion and advocate of productive inquiry, talks about learning on demand.

"Be willing to be confused, to make mistakes, and to be intrinsically motivated to pick up new skills constantly. We live in an ever changing age, and we require continuous learning. But here's the thing, we do not learn so we can amass knowledge - we learn to do.

"Learning inside the work scape, then becomes very powerful. So we need to transform the world in which we do things, in which we work, into a world where we also learn. Management is a question of how do you facilitate and inspire learning. The new managers will need to have the ability to know how to construct social spaces and encourage people to learn new things."

Read the rest of her post here