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learnscapes

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on April 3, 2007 at 7:00:59 pm
 

 

Learnscapes

 

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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major areas of any Learnscape

 

 

 

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

 

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)

 

 

Nurturing connections
 
 

informal learning core

 

May 16th, 2006

 

beliefs and processes

1. learning is natural. get out of its way and let it happen.

2. learning is social. encourage conversation and networking.

3. learning is adapatation to one's ecosystems. it is a dynamic relationship.

4. learning involves skills one can improve.

5. authenticity trumps its facsimiles.

6. good learning comes from having good connections.

7. learning is spontaneous. so is rain. but you can seed a rain cloud…or learning

 

connections

to others: know who, ease of access

to info: know where, perf support

pave the cow paths, bring trails

learning is a series of relationships

 

receiving node

nurturing relationships

listening skills, meta-learning, search, grok, frameworks, emotion, stability

sending node

empathy,

audit, organization and individual

community, yeah, but…

strength of weak ties not just master and apprentice

seed groups

friendly nomenclature: helper nets

issue: mistakenly seeing only one connection. oversimplify. stereotype.

 
  • The rise of the individual
  • The increased capacity for connections and connectivity
  • The breaking apart of content
  • The creation of user-controlled space
  • the stocks become flows. "powerpoint = tyranny"

     

     

    Web 2.0 at Motorola

    Mark Oehlert on This is How It's Supposed to Work

     

    • They have about 4,433 blogs (about 40,000 blog entries)
    • 3,300 wikis (each with often many pages)
    • Several thousand FAQs
    • 28,000 inquiries and responses in 2,400 forums

     

    • It was completely viral adoption internally, "without a single memo from upstairs"
    • It is heavily used low down in the organization to get things done, and less used and less understood as you go up the organization.
    • Three quarters of the company participates by posting to blogs, wikis, forums, and FAQs.
    • They have 69,000 employees and 75,000 active users (including 8,000 in an extranet with partners, universities, etc.).
    • They manage it with four people and some management.

     

     

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