Jay Cross helps people work and live smarter. Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. He wrote the book on it. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.
Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief Learning Officer Network at Symantec’s offices in Mountain View on Wednesday. We talked of working smarter, the imperative to change, the ins and outs of informal learning, and why mobile learning is inevitable.
The Executive Networks hosts plumbed the audience for questions our presentation had raised. We broke into groups to discuss:
What’s the role of the CLO as learning shifts from push to pull? What capabilities does the 21st century training department need? How do we go about shifting from what we already have in place? How does this fit with existing standards, compliance requirements, and regulatory boundaries?
My breakout group discussed: