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learnscapes

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Saved by Jay Cross
on March 14, 2007 at 4:08:24 pm
 

 

Learning is a process, not an event. A Learnscape is where that process plays out.

 

 

Learnscapes are learning ecosystems.

 

 

 

Informal learning is about situated action, collaboration, coaching, and reflection -- not classes. Developing a platform to support informal learning is analogous to landscaping a garden. You don't make the platform; you make what's there better.

 

A major component of informal learning is natural learning, the notion of treating people as organisms in nature. Our role as learning professionals is to protect their environment, provide nutrients for growth, and let nature take its course.Self-service learners connect to one another, to ongoing flows of information and work, to their teams and organizations, to their customers and markets, not to mention their families and friends. Because the design of informal learning ecosystems is analogous to landscape design, I will call the environment of informal learning a learnscape. A landscape designer’s goal is to conceptualize a harmonious, unified, pleasing garden that makes the most of the site at hand. A learnscaper strives to create a learning environment that increases the organization’s longevity and health, and the individual learner’s happiness and well-being. Gardeners don’t control plants; managers don’t control people. Gardeners and managers have influence but not absolute authority. They can’t make a plant fit into the landscape or a person fit into a team.

 

A learnscape is a learning ecology. It’s learning without borders.

 

Jay's blogs on Learnscapes. Free-range learning. Learnscaping seven-minute overview

 

 

Learnscapes are not formal or all informal; they are always a mix of both.

 

Discussion became quite heated when I depicted this as an audio mixer:

 

 

 

 

 

Internet Culture and the Evolution of Learning

 

Designing a Web-based learning ecology

 

 

davegray

Dave Gray's delightful drawing addresses common Learnscape communication issues.

 

 

teemu arina Teemu Arina's sketch puts informal learning in the center and formal learning around the periphery.

 

 

 

 A sample Learnscape (Unworkshop)

 

 

 

Learnscape Health Checklist

 

Conversations Relationships Individual skils & support Optimal network Learning Culture
Third places
Online discussions
Un-meetings
Informal support of formal
Storytelling
Visual support
Fast: IM
Communities
Each one/teach one Foster collaboration BBS, VoIP, discussion boards Coach
Communications
Health
Tech savvy
Visual
Mindful Web 2.0
Refined PKM
Unlearning
Conferences & unmeetings
Meta-Learning: reflection

Performance support
Large screen
Ease of access
Bandwidth
Connections
Right people-ONA
Internet inside
Signal/noise
Search: Findable: social search, tabs, federated search, tagging, cross-linking, V-search. Find people, too. Tag clouds.
Bottom-up
Open/transparent
Conversational
Flexible< br/> Include customers & partners
Bus & bike
Trust

 

 

 

Characteristics of successful nodes
Transparency (findable, tagged, plugged in)
Mindful, enthused, open to opportunity
Skilled at communication and pattern recognition
System-savvy, understand navigation, visualizing connections, PKM
 
Communication prereqs
Read, write, speak, visual

 

Sound mind, well body

 

Friendly, outgoing, receptive

 

Nurturing connections

 

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