19. Flat society
Everyone leads
Consensus decision-making
Gender equality
Respect for knowledge
Respect for one another
In it for the long haul
Clear cultural norms
Post-hierarchy
No royalty
No chiefs
Treading Lightly No armies
The Hidden Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People No wars
No priests
No bureaucrats
No burglars
50% time spent on knowledge No police
No taxes
20. Learning
Stories
Campfires
Community
Learning Journey
18 years
26 countries
Holistic
Baayami
Tex Skuthorpe
Treading Lightly
46. Instructional Design Roles
writer, presenter, tech, designer
steward & community builder
• Bringing new members up to speed with the community’s technology.
• Identifying and spreading good technology practices.
• Supporting community experimentation.
• Assuring continuity across technology disruptions.
• “Keeping the lights on”
(including backups, permissions, domain registrations).
producers, moderators, reporters, bloggers
connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists,
news anchors and performance consultants.
performance consultant and coach
businessperson Learnscape architect
emerging tech & fit with learning
understand adult & organizational learning
47. Business vision Forms Change management
Continuous improvement Communities Stakeholder support
Strategic flexibility Learnscapes Role re-definition
Customer learning Social nets Buy-in
Organizational culture Infrastructure
Nurturing Lightweight
Openness Open source
Flattening Ready to go
Learning sciences Psychology Access Embedded learning
Meta-learning Engagement Mobile Visual
Experience design Ambiguity Games Chunks
Informal learning Fun 24/7 Reflection
51. Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer
By Jay Cross and Dr. Clark Quinn
Chief Learning Officer magazine
May 2009
CLO/togetherLearn Meta-Learning Inquiry
52. togetherLearn/CLO Meta-Learning Survey, May-June 2009
How many people work for your organization?
US Europe
1-99 14% 18%
100-999 35% 12%
1000-9999 32% 62%
10,000+ 19% 8%
n= 44 39
53. togetherLearn/CLO Meta-Learning Survey, May-June 2009
Our corporate culture values... U.S. Euro
Transparency and openness 37 63
Sharing and cooperation 51 62
Innovation and experimentation 41 72
Collaboration and teamwork 71 57
Bottom-up ideas and initiative 40 45
54. togetherLearn/CLO Meta-Learning Survey, May-June 2009
CLO makes decisions about... U.S. Euro
Training 89 69
Coaching, informal 62 56
Knowledge management 41 44
Organization development 64 59
Performance support 41 43
Communities of practice 30 38
Customer learning 25 18
Partner learning 18 21
Learning process 43 54
55. togetherLearn/CLO Meta-Learning Survey, May-June 2009
CLO involved in decisions about U.S. Euro
Expert locator systems 20 23
Social network infrastructure 30 36
Wikis, blogs, search 34 36
Access to net, YouTube, Twitter 30 41
Coupling learning and strategy 70 51
Corporate strategy problems 56 41
Major business change programs 36 38
56. togetherLearn/CLO Meta-Learning Survey, May-June 2009
My organization... U.S. Euro
Welcomes innovation 43 67
Encourages reflection 20 56
Tolerates mistakes 28 45
Shares information 43 51
Fosters learning for all 41 64
Experiments with new ways 51 42
Works across departments 52 28
57. togetherLearn/CLO Meta-Learning Survey, May-June 2009
Our people... U.S. Euro
Understand link to firm 36 71
Talk about outside trends 28 35
Think more than a quarter ahead 33 50
Growing fast enough to keep up 14 45
Can blog and wiki 22 37
Rely on in-house forums 16 37
Use IM or Twitter 11 24
Can locale in-house experts 23 54