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At the turn of the century, my vision of corporate learning put the learner at the center of resources that included the web, online learning activities, communities of practice, an intranet, and instructor-led training. My thinking has changed. Can you guess several ways I would re-draw the picture today?

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Teemu Arina and I met online about 18 months ago. I was leading a remote presentation on informal learning from California to a group in Helsinki. We finally got together F2F at Online Educa in Berlin last year. Teemu and I are on the same wave-length, nodding our heads in agreement when we talk, despite the fact that I’ve probably spent four decades more on earth.

An educational institution asked him to draw up a one-pager on how to take advantage of informal learning. They were imagining the formal learning at the core, with informal learning glued around the periphery. Teemu gave them an informal-learning centric rendering instead.

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If most learning (and I’d add innovation) is informal, shouldn’t it be at the center rather than the other way around?

Teemu is CEO of Dicole Oy in Helsinki. His blog merits attention.

Want a free wiki of your very own? Listen to Start Your Wiki in Six Minutes. It’s an example of a screencast. It’s a prototype, developed all of ten minutes ago, so forgive the glitches. If informal learning takes hold as I expect it to, you’re going to see a lot more learning chunks in this format.

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David Snowden is a genius. Sense-making is his mission. Check out the essays at Cynefin Centre. Cynefin is Welsh, like Dave. It’s meaning is inscrutable. It’s Welsh for the Japanese word Baa. Sort of.
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At the bottom of an email received today:

How’s My Driving?
Did this answer appropriately address your question(s)?
If Yes select this link to respond: salesteam1@book.com 
1 – Excellent – (explanation optional)
2 – Good – (explanation optional)
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3 – Unsatisfactory (please explain)

One person stands at a flipchart. Everyone else passes around a simple freeform diagram. The person at the chart asks questions about the unseen diagram and attempts to draw it. They don’t come close: you can’t get there from here. It’s hard to envision what you cannot see.

Imagine a more complex situation. You heard Verna Allee talking about the magic of value networks. It’s a great revision of how organizations create value. It’s also a topic you can get lost in. Let’s say you want to explain the main points to a colleague.

Take a look at Visual Insight’s journal of this month’s Mesh Forum in San Francisco. Here is a one-sheet view of Verna Allee’s talk on value networks. If you wanted to share what Verna had to say, imagine the power of being able to point to the graphic for relationships, reminders, and soliciting questions.
In the knowledge era, we are all learners; we are all teachers. Shouldn’t most of us be taking notes like this?

You can often see the future by simply watching what Amazon is up to.

This is one of the friendliest front ends you’ll find on a wiki. Ask questions. Share opinions. Gain insight. You might put this at the front of your wikis.

Robin Good reports that

Skype has just launched a new beta release (ver. 2.5) of its popular instant messenger cum integrated VoIP and video while also opening up a new service called Skypecasting, which allows anyone to run one-to-many Skype audio conferences with up to 100 simultaneous attendees.

We’re readying the next series of Unworkshops on Learning+Web, and we’ll have to give this a whirl.

Spot what’s wrong with this sentence from a press release by the British Learning Association:

72% of conference delegates agreed that learning tends not to lead to change, when challenged last week at the British Learning Association’s annual conference at the Institute of Physics in London.

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Take ten minutes to watch this marvelous film of students describing their democratic school, Fairhaven. This is the sort of schooling John Taylor Gatto dreams about.

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