LeaderMOOC Behind The Scenes: Learning Agility Week design

We are well in the second half of LeaderMOOC now and just opened week 5 on learning agility, the last of the fundamental four. This week 5 was together with week 3 one of the weeks were I was the lead designer. I've included too many topics (again), but hope our LeaderMOOC participants will be able to make time for it. The next weeks will be on the mystery topic people could vote on (the winning topic is leading in times of change) and the concluding week on habit change. We also launched a Mid-MOOC survey last week to get data on how people are doing.

Learning is the work and the work is learning

... is one of my favorite quotes from the folks at the Internet Time Alliance. Being able to 'extract the learning from the work' is a key skill and more so than ever before. While we are speaking about quotes, the one below is one of my all time favorites:
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. " (Alvin Toffler)

Personally I would have called the week just 'learning', but the term we use at CCL is learning agility (which I hope is a known word for our non-English speaking participants). It is a 'meta' skill and a critical one. Most of my book Homo Competens - Let's talk about competent people in the network age has been on this theme, with a strong assumption that we can each drive our own development.

• I've included a Skype interview with Cindy McCauley on the 'lessons of experience' research where successful leaders report on their most significant developmental experiences. This research is one of the early sources of what later became the (sometimes simplistically applied) 702010 framework that is so popular now. But it is important on what the early research actually said, so I'd advice everyone to watch Cindy talk about it. I wrote about the origins of 702010 before. Charles Jennings recently started the 702010 forum to help companies 'do it right' rather than dogmatic. The program I used for the Skype interview was suggested by my MOOC colleague Ron: supertintin. Super simple to use, high quality results.
• Later in the MOOC as a research spotlight we have a two-video segment where our Indian colleague Meena Wilson takes us through the latest iteration of this research, adding in the global variances in 4 countries.
• My colleague Phil Willburn provided us with the video interview where Michael Campbell talks about the findings he wrote in the whitepaper Learning About Learning Agility.
• This week also has an experiment to test out sustainable business models: we added a research survey for people to participate in. One way to get value out of MOOCs is to use them to generate research data (we hope).
• And one of my favorite bits of the week is the video where Nick and Phil talk about the 5 things that people who do make changes after attending a course do differently from those who don't. 
• One of his suggestions is Marshall Goldsmith's free technique of FeedForward, so we are curious to see how it works out in the discussion forum.
• And that is the big take-away from the week: make your own process for development. Transfer of learning is difficult, especially as we are aiming for behavior change. So make sure you have your intentional process for it, with the elements we covered this week: involve others, focus on a few things only, take the time it takes (which is more than an event), etc

Previously:

• This one has MOOC in the title
• Golden advice on designing a MOOC part 1, part 2 and part 3
• Platform choice and registrations
• What can MOOCs mean for the corporate world?
• Video killed the ecourse star
• Getting enough people for a Massive OOC.
• Roadmap and Recognition
• Week 0 design: orientation week
• Week 1 design: leader mindset
• Fighting elitism, or are we?
• Week 2 design: self-awareness
• Week 3 design: influencing