Adventures in Corporate Education

I’ve been mulling this post over for a few days now. But after reading some of Harold Jarche’s posts, I have decided now is not the time to be scared to speak up.
I know everyone does not understand the big deal about blogging. I’ve even heard it said that if people have time [...]

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Today, I set up a demonstration of Second Life for some of my senior management. I signed up for a conference on how to use Second Life for business, and went through some hoops with our IT department to get IT to open up the firewall for me.
It did not turn out well.
I had a [...]

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This blog post discusses PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) and how they are needed based on how this new industrial revolution we are in is changing education.
The author discusses a 7-country study on ICT Learning (ICTs stand for Information and Communication Technologies) showed workers primarily use Google for informal-based learning. Quoting from the post:
Managers were often [...]

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I am editing this post, because this month’s Biq Questions are:

Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies?
Shouldn’t they be starting with themselves and helping to develop it throughout the organizations?
And then shouldn’t the learning organization become a driver for the organization?
And like in the world of libraries don’t we [...]

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Tony Karrer suggests going for the small wins, specifically by taking the following steps:

“implement a small Wiki that has performance support materials that goes along with your eLearning on that new software application
at first have it only editable by the authors
then open it up to edit the FAQ and Common Issue pages by your help [...]

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