A great article from Caroline Avey via CLO Media:
The challenges for today’s CLOs are more complex than ever: They are required not only to demonstrate clear value and business relevance for their learning strategy on a global stage, but also their ability to link learning and performance programs directly to the goals of their organization, despite constraints in time, budget and talent. … [They must] creatively balance the demand for knowledge and information against the realities of changing content and instructional design, disappearing content expertise, disruptive technologies, demand for on-the-job proficiency and an increasingly dispersed workforce with less tolerance for off-the-job formal learning.
Avey identifies five trends in corporate mobile learning that together suggest (put very simply) that increased instant connection between individuals and diversified learning via embedded wikis, blogs and sophisticated messaging systems will be tempered with greater specificity in terms of identifying relevant information for the learner — so they have exactly what they need at their fingertips without being overwhelmed with unwanted data. Looking forward, Avey sees less traditional classroom-based learning as technologies allow us to tie even closer job performance with specific informational needs, for example via avatars and cloud computing.
