(W) Learning – Tony O'Driscoll

Writing on Learning

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Digital Darwinism

To date, the educational community largely has leveraged technology to accelerate the way to teach rather than to amplify the way we learn.

Here Comes the Immernet

As we rapidly transition from the Internet to the “immernet,” the opportunity to leverage this new technological platform to democratize learning on a global scale is unprecedented.

Productive versus Generative Learning

As we move from a “find-it-out” world to a “figure-it-out” one, our focus must shift from increasing the efficiency of productive learning in the classroom to also enabling the effectiveness of generative learning in the workplace.

Resolving Pandemic Paradoxes: Rethinking Learning for a Post COVID World

By shifting our thinking from productive to generative learning, we can take the critical first step in figuring out the pernicious pandemic paradoxes the COVID-19 disruption has foisted upon us.

The X Factor: Putting Content in Context

In our haste to develop content in service of instructional objectives, we have been distracted from paying sufficient attention to the increasingly important and urgent role that context plays in learning.

Rolling the DICE: Designing In-Context Experiences

In order to blend content and context in new and different ways that will have lasting impact on developing both individual competence and organizational performance consider these five design principles.

Getting Learning’s Game On

To recreate the age-old apprenticeship model of learning within a new-age immersive gaming context, consider these eight key design principles.

Getting Training in Gear

Reframing the 70-20-10 ratio as an integrated learning system allows us to design holistic learning experiences from the perspective of what a performer needs to know, do, and believe.

Leaders as Levers

To add value today, we need to reframe our perspective from bringing the leader to the learning to bringing the learning to the leader.

Start with Why

The key to developing engaging education lies in first establishing the motivation to learn.

Navigating Complexity: It’s NOT Complicated

Leaders seeking to navigate complex operating contexts must unlearn the lessons of experience they acquired in successfully navigating complicated ones

Learning from Experience

In order for people and organizations to change, they must undergo an experience that compels them to unlearn what they know to be true to create the space to embrace something new.

The Mother of Learning Innovation

In reframing the challenge of applying technology to reinvent the learning experience for students rather than just applying it to recreate the classroom experience, my approach to teaching has been forever changed. And firmly believe my students’ learning experience will be all the better for it.