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Learning Trends
Lead interview
America’s got talent!
Understanding the business industry that you
work within is crucial to being able to offer
the best training. In the second instalment of
the insightful Elliott Masie interview,
Anita Peach talks to America’s leading
learning guru about L&D professionals getting
their hands dirty and the difference between
the learning industries across the pond
Can you describe a day in the life of
prepare a different generation of learning
Elliott Masie?
professionals, which I’m working on with
It’s interesting when you work globally; this
a university, so I’m really excited to see its
morning I was online doing an interview in
PhD programme.
a podcast with a senior executive in Hong
Kong. Then I spent an hour at the coffee
Is there anything in the pipeline that
shop with five friends who have nothing
you plan to work on in the future?
to do with the learning industry, but
I love to have opportunities to look at how
ironically teach me a lot about learning. learning takes place in different professions.
One runs a McDonald’s franchise, another I’m looking at how doctors learn right now
is a professor at a college, and another and I will probably turn my attention to
a builder. Next I helped design a class on how we train teachers in our schools.
learning design. I’ve done two other pod
casts, I’m doing an interview with you, What do you enjoy most about
then I’m going to sample a new gaming working in the industry?
environment in about an hour. I’ve got an The people. I just love the people.
article to write and I’ll be sending an email They’re interesting and some of them
to 55,000 people. That’s an average day, are as weird as I am! I do believe when
working globally and being connected to we do it right it does make a difference;
people who read my news. I get emails and anybody who has ever taught will tell
phone calls all day long from around the you there’s nothing like seeing that
world; it’s just enormously invigorating. light-bulb flash on. For somebody who’s
developed an online learning resource,
What have you been working a website in e-learning, a community of
on recently? practice, it’s so cool to see them connect
I’ve been looking at how learning is and learn online. It’s the people.
going to impact on our president. I’m
also trying to find a way to get the jargon What would you say has been your
out of our field, there’s just too much. greatest achievement so far?
You know, people love their words and I think one of my major accomplishments
they love technical words, but I think it was when the internet started to bubble
actually works against them. And the third up, I saw that there was an ability to
thing that I’m looking at is the need to use the connectivity of the internet, not
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