The Knowledge and Learning Transfer Problem

During a meeting at Cambridge University around 30 years ago I was thoroughly chastised by a Cambridge academic. I’d used the phrase ‘learning delivery’ when describing computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) approaches. CSCL was one of the hot pedagogical approaches of the day – when network-based learning was in its relative infancy. “Charles, my dear fellow”,…

Cracking the code: 10+ or 70:20:10?

author: Jos Arets 70:20:10 appears to be the new gold standard for HR and L&D . It is creating its own jargon in which services are referred to as numbers: is this a 70 activity, a 20 or a 10+? It looks suspiciously like a code – so the key question is what is the…

Making Learning Work

This seems an almost natural process. We learn first and then we work. A huge global industry has built up around this approach. But we are coming to the realisation that in the context of organisational learning and learning organisations this is not the only, or necessarily the best, way to create high performing people…