All we really need is us (on Self-Directed Learning) from Bert De Coutere
Most of my professional work has centered in some way, shape or form around the concept of Self-Directed Learning and how to discover and set our own learning goals, how to shape our own learning involving all the resources we need (including other people), how to monitor our progress, etc...
The workshop was a variation of 'traditional' me-speaking-you-listening theory parts with SDL 'tasting' sessions in the table groups. For these activities I had prepared envelopes with key questions and supporting materials for the table groups to explore. The whole workshop centered around the question how to increase the level of SDL in our organizations.... One of the interesting take-aways for me personally was the poll answer to the question how many people we currently deem capable of SDL in our organizations, and what that percentage could become in the future. The poll results were very skewed: a large part of the audience centered around 30% whereas an equally large part went for 80 to even 100%. It is interesting because that is close to the "fixed vs growth" mindset debate that I touched upon earlier. At the core of SDL is a mindset that our intelligence and skills are not 'finite' but can be developed (see the work of Carol Dweck on growth vs fixed mindsets). Anyway, I'll further discuss SDL in upcoming posts.
Here are other random insights I gathered during the summit:
Most of my professional work has centered in some way, shape or form around the concept of Self-Directed Learning and how to discover and set our own learning goals, how to shape our own learning involving all the resources we need (including other people), how to monitor our progress, etc...
The workshop was a variation of 'traditional' me-speaking-you-listening theory parts with SDL 'tasting' sessions in the table groups. For these activities I had prepared envelopes with key questions and supporting materials for the table groups to explore. The whole workshop centered around the question how to increase the level of SDL in our organizations.... One of the interesting take-aways for me personally was the poll answer to the question how many people we currently deem capable of SDL in our organizations, and what that percentage could become in the future. The poll results were very skewed: a large part of the audience centered around 30% whereas an equally large part went for 80 to even 100%. It is interesting because that is close to the "fixed vs growth" mindset debate that I touched upon earlier. At the core of SDL is a mindset that our intelligence and skills are not 'finite' but can be developed (see the work of Carol Dweck on growth vs fixed mindsets). Anyway, I'll further discuss SDL in upcoming posts.
Here are other random insights I gathered during the summit:
- The average age of TV viewers is 58. Media consumption now happens through user generated playlists rather than a broadcast schedule. I was wondering if learning consumption is going the same way...
- Most if not all of the case studies on Corporate Universities touched upon how they implement 702010. It is not necessarily a model that everyone loves, but the notion of it resonates and corporate training is using it as a guideline.
- Over one third of Fortune 500 companies trains more external than internal people. I didn't realize that the needle towards developing the 'extended enterprise' (clients, partners, industry stakeholders,...) had already shifted that much.
- The concept of 'value' is different for different stakeholders in the ecosystem of L&D.
- There is a lot of focus on aligning the L&D (Corporate University) with the business it supports. Most of the case studies on Corporate Universities also showcased how they integrate the business perspectives (eg by having a steering board for the Corporate University with business people, involving their own people in the classes more than external vendors, by setting up and managing the Corporate University as a separate business, etc...)
- I noticed a tendency in 'going META' : we focus more efforts on learning learners how to learn (eg SDL) and on teaching teachers how to teach (eg taking people from the business and equipping them with facilitation skills).
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