Jessica Bowers MondayJun 21 at 12:17pmManage Discussion Entry Training is a necessary component of effective business strategy, indicated by businesses increasing their training budgets, not only to...

Jessica Bowers

Training is a necessary component of effective business strategy, indicated by businesses increasing their training budgets, not only to gain knowledge and skills but to retain talented employees (Suhasini & Suganthalakshmi, 2015). In the last four decades learning has developed with the support of innovations in technology from classroom learning to e-learning, to LMS platforms, to digital learning (Joshbersin, 2018). Digital learning allows for a distinction between micro-learning and macro-learning, with micro-learning encompassing the learning that needs to occur quickly and applied immediately through indexed, searchable topics (Joshbersin, 2018). This change in learning has led to the next paradigm of learning which has been coined as "learning in the flow of work" by Josh Bersin. Learning in the flow of work allows an individual to access information at the moment of need, assimilate that information quickly and return to work to apply the learning. The desire of learning in the flow of work is to be more effective in learning, to learn at the learner's pace, learn at the point of need, and get back to work with applicable knowledge (Bersin & Zao-Sanders, 2019). The application of this type of learning allows the learning platform to be embedded into the daily system for work and training. The disadvantages of this type of learning are that it must be developed rapidly and change constantly, requiring rapidly advancing technology and implementation and the skillset and personnel to maintain this. Intercultural development continues to drive this trend as a need to disseminate rapid influxes of information increases, as well as the need to tailor learning to multiple environments, such as different cultural environments.

References:

Bersin, J., & Zao-Sanders, M. (2019). Making Learning a Part of Everyday Work.Harvard Business Review, 2–7.

Joshbersin. (2018, July 8).A New Paradigm For Corporate Training: Learning In The Flow of Work. JOSH BERSIN. https://joshbersin.com/2018/06/a-new-paradigm-for-corporate-training-learning-in-the-flow-of-work/.

Suhasini, R., & Suganthalakshmi, T. (2015). Emerging trends in training and development.International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 5(3), 1-10. Retrieved fromhttp://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0315/ijsrp
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Kathryn Kelly

Hello Marcus,

E-learning has been around for some time, but the pandemic made it almost universal. I have been teaching and taking online classes for over ten years, and one thing that I have learned is that developing an effective online class is a science and requires time, effort, and skill. My heart went out to educators who had to adapt quickly to whatever technology was available to teach their students. Many teachers and parents think that online education does not work. I agree that some online classes did not work well, but it is not the concept that is at fault.

What do you think?

Kathryn