The Masie Center
:
a learning lab and thinktank
our own terminal using local tools, that I get 150 pages of stuff. But imagine if
statement I’m about to make – much of
we don’t have to give it to a professional, I did a search and it knew something
what we’ve seen in learning has come out
that we can publish it and it can go about me; my language, my credentials,
of the English speaking first world; out of
worldwide rapidly. my profession, my style, and then I get
the UK, out of Ireland out of the US, out
just the right thing. I think we’re going to
of Australia. A lot of the learning world
The third challenge, and I think it’s a see a huge number of more personalised
has vibrated out of that. And we’re now
significant one, you know we’ve never search capabilities.
seeing some of the most provocative and
had much research as to how people
actually learn. For instance, there’s lots of
mythology, I don’t mean bad myth, but
we all have a bad myth that if I repeat it
‘I think technology has made a huge impact,
a couple of times, you’ll learn. As I said if
I repeat it a couple times, you’ll learn, as
not just in e-learning but in everything. I
I said before if I repeat it a couple times,
remember 10 years ago I would go in to teach
you’ll learn. There’s not a single piece of
research that indicates that that’s true.
a class and bring along a 12-page hand out
We’re getting to the point where we can
with names of books and articles for people
think about doing some research, real
research, on how people learn and how
to read; now I’m more likely to give them a
do they learn differently. You and I may
link to go to a web page’
be very similar people, we may like the
same music, have the same career, and
you may learn by learning backwards and
me forwards, or you might learn by getting I think the other thing that’s going to
innovative work coming out of Brazil,
the content and then the example, or I happen is a rise of more and more
China, India, Vietnam, other places in
might need the example way before I get performance support; tools that allow me
Europe, so I think we’re now going to see a
the theory of it. So I am very interested to learn in a moment of need, rather than
much more global perspective of learning.
in how a rise in research that will lead to just in case I need this. For that matter, a
a fundamental shift in how we learn and GPS is that: I don’t need to keep directions In the next issue, Elliott Masie will be
that’s really incredible for me. to Gordon’s house in my head, if I can type
discussing differences between learning
in Gordon’s name and it directs me.
in the US and our industry in the UK.
What do you predict for the future
For more information, watch out for the
autumn issue of Learning Magazine
of learning? I think those two things are going to be
available from 10 October and online at
I’d like to see search engines optimised really provocative. But if I could add a learningmagazine.co.uk
for learning. Right now if I do a search third element I think it’s a controversial
learningmagazine.co.uk
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