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An overview of how corporate universities or academies are different from training and development functions.
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Corporate Learning in the 21st Century
The Role of Corporate Academies & Universities
By Kevin Wheeler
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Corporate Education Today
• Based on: – Manufacturing-‐world mindset – Mass production models of learning
• Focused on. . . – increasing the number of managers – personal development. – classes and formal education. – telling employees what they should study.
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The Transformation Underway
Focus on: -Personal development -Tactical improvements -Supervisory skills -Compliance
Focus on: -Organizational development -Strategic improvements -Communication -Innovation
Delivery primarily: -Formal classes -Instructor led -Highly structured e-learning -Prescriptive
Delivery primarily: -Informal tools and methods -Student led -Games, simulations -Exploration
20th Century 21th Century
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What Gen Y is Teaching Us About Learning
• Interactivity & Involvement – Internet-‐ Do it Yourself – Instant fulfillment – Video/gaming are core to delivery
• Increased Feedback – Multi-‐way communication is replacing one-‐way. – Personal, customized answers and messages. – Authenticity is key to acceptance.
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What Gen Y is Teaching Us About Learning
• Invisibility of Technology – From TV to Internet to Mobile Phones – Technology is central to learning
• Expectation for Innovation/progress – Fast paced change/variety – Short assignment/projects
• Flexibility a virtue – Assemble diverse pieces to make your own unique solution
– A bit here, a bit there – cohesion and depth come later
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Tomorrow’s Corporate Education
• An informal, multi-‐dimensional, lightly structured process of seeking out needed information.
• A process of trading knowledge or information.
• Crowdsourced learning collaboration.
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The 21st Century CU
• Tightly coupled to strategic goals of the organization.
• Provides discovery-‐based, self-‐directed learning goals.
• Moves away from bricks and mortar and formal courses. – Offers resources, coaches, guidance
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The 21st Century CU
• A process/structure/framework that is constantly in flux as needs change.
• Uses “pull,” not “push” by creating an environment for the free exchange of ideas.
• Fosters informal learning.
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Informal Learning
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Formal vs. Informal
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Tools that Foster Informal Learning
• Websites • Search tools • Videos • Collaboration
software • Social Networks • Blogs
• Podcasts • Instant Messaging/
Texting • Story telling • Simulations/Avatars • Games
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Models that Foster Informal Learning
• Apprenticeships • Communities of Practice • Communities of Interest • Reinvention of “craft” and apprenticeships
• Collaborative virtual work and knowledge sharing
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Characteristics
• Blended work/learn • Gives responsibility and control to the learner
• Re-‐emergence of apprenticeships • Virtual/anywhere/anytime • Based on networks and the Internet • Instructors (at best) are guides, mentors and provocateurs.
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Kevin Wheeler Future of Talent Institute