A brief overview of changes in how corporate learning is delivered based on learner needs and new technologies.

1. How Learning Delivery is Changing
Considering new technologies and reviewing trends of 2010, this list captures changes and the
an
impact on learning and delivery.
• More prescriptive learning – based on specific learner needs – than catalog based.
based
• Learners are more involved in their own learning, defining their needs and finding what
information they need at the moment the need it.
they
• “Pull” learning versus “push” learning is growing. As informal learning becomes a viable
part of learning, allowing l
learners to choose when to learn – which is at the moment
information or knowledge is needed most – in the middle of a project or assignment –
the need for learning to be available from learning portals, communities of learning, or
as chunks of learning incr
increases.
• Learning and information needs to be indexed by keyword, learning objective or content
area in order to be searchable for ease of user identification of needed content or topic.
• Collaborative learning is becoming main stream. This mean as individuals work
means indivi
collectively in the organizational environment, not everyone needs to know everything if
someone in the work group has the knowledge.
• Part of collaborative learning is the need for learning to be part of community. It’s
becoming the role of the learning team to create community as part of pre and post-
learning of any learning “event”. Community allows learners to ask questions and share
knowledge.
• “Just-in-time” or “on-demand” learning is becoming the way of learning in organizations
demand”
– this includes social, collaborative and informal learning
cludes learning.
• Enterprise Learning or front end portals are defining what the new LMS looks like and
front-end
the features it must include
include.
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