{"id":1379,"date":"2010-06-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2010-06-11T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T23:14:19","slug":"the-future-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Those of you who read this blog often know that I\u2019m a cyclist and generally a fitness kind of guy.\u00a0 I\u2019m actually fairly obsessive, and on a recent day entering my daily food and caloric intake into my smart phone, I thought how wonderful it would be if I could record my daily learning experiences in the same way.\u00a0 Currently my phone is a Motorola Droid, a Google Android based phone because I\u2019m on Verizon and won\u2019t give up their network (which I consider to be better in the cities I commonly travel to).\u00a0 I use an application called myfatsecret.com, and the calorie counter application allows me to easily search restaurant menus, foods, and even scan packaging barcodes using the camera interface, all of which will automatically enter in calorie counts along with all sorts of other data.<\/p>\n

The problem with current state learning technologies is that you have specific learning objectives, participate in learning experiences whatever they may be, and record them.\u00a0 This is indeed a good way to track formal learning experiences, but in reality, learning happens outside of these set experiences.\u00a0 I definitely think that one must record the coursework, mentorship experiences, seminars and conferences that people participate in.\u00a0 But it all seemed somewhat limited and limiting.<\/p>\n

As I entered my daily food into my phone, I thought how the same could be done for learning, although the applications in talent probably go far beyond learning.\u00a0 Learning happens at random times, in random conversations.\u00a0 It could be during a \u201cwatercooler\u201d conversation, or reading a blog, or having an idea while entering food into your phone.\u00a0 But all too often, these events remain unrecorded and ultimately forgotten.\u00a0 In order to capture these, learning really has to be captured at the point of entry, at the time that learning occurs.<\/p>\n

Personally, I can\u2019t enter into my food diary at the end of a day, let along days later.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s rude, but I tend to enter into my food diary at the end of each meal.\u00a0 The same really has to happen for learning.\u00a0 If my manager wants to know what I\u2019m doing, there is probably just as much data as a food diary.\u00a0 Everything I read, and even the things that I think about and develop on my own are subject to being recorded.\u00a0 Similar to a food diary, categorization, metrics, and progress tracking all can happen real time.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if everyone is as consumed by their smart phones as I am, but given what I see at airports and restaurants, there are enough of us that do use our phones for everything that using point of entry learning applications is plausible.\u00a0 As time goes on, and organizations roll out smart phones to their populations, I\u2019d hope that learning and talent vendors continue to look into the next generation of learning apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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