C4LPT's New Workplace Learning report focuses on Smart Worker's habits and needs

The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, keepers of the Top 100 tools for Learning, just released it's New Workplace Learning report for 2013, focusing on how Smart Workers are using online and social tools to address their own learning and performance needs, and in the process are by-passing traditional learning and support structures.  (Click on images for larger version.)

New Workplace Learning (2013)

Work in progress

CONTENTS

Part 1: How the smart worker learns 

It is quite clear that an increasing number of workers are using online social tools to address their own learning and performance needs, and in the process are by-passing both L&D and IT functions. So rather than ignoring the fact or trying to ban access to tools, it is time to re-think how organizations can support today’s smart workers as well as prepare for those of tomorrow.

1 – The Smart Worker learns continuously as she does her job

» Integrate learning in the workflow

2 –  The Smart Worker wants immediate access to a performance problem

»  Provide and enable erformance support

3 – The Smart Worker is happy to share what she learns

»  Encourage employee generated content

4  – The Smart Worker relies on a trusted network of colleagues

»  Support social networking inside and outside the organisation

5 – The Smart Worker learns best with and from others

»  Encourage social learning both in training and in the workflow

6 – The Smart Worker keeps up to date with what is happening in his industry and profession

»  Encourage “learning the new” and “entrepreneurial learning”

7 – The Smart Worker constantly strives to improve her productivity

»  Provide performance consulting services rather than just instructional/training services

8 – The Smart Worker thrives on autonomy

» Promote professional learning (outside the organisation) and the use of professional learning portfolios.

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Part 2: Learning in a social organization

• The future of training
  • Using social media in the classroom
  • Building learning communities
  • Facilitating collaborative learning
• Learning in the flow of work
  • Social collaboration
    • Supporting work teams
    • Supporting communities of practice
    • Harnessing collective intelligence
• Personal and professional learning
  • Personal Knowledge Management
• Tools and systems
  • Instructional tools and platforms
  • Public social media tools
    • Connect & Converse
    • Share
    • Create & Share Content
    • Collaboration
    • Curate Content
    • Other personal tools
  • Enterprise social collaboration platforms
• Frameworks and models
  • 70-20-10 framework
  • Workforce Development Services Framework
  • Enterprise Community Model

House Republicans get the jump on STEM VISAs

Cross-posted with NoVA STEM Education Network blog:

From Inside Higher Ed: 

House Passes STEM Jobs Act

December 2, 2012 - 3:00am

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 245-139 on Friday in favor of the Stem Jobs Act, a Republican-backed measure that would make 55,000 visas available for foreign graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. The bill is unlikely to progress in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Although there is bipartisan support for visas for STEM graduates, many Democrats oppose a provision of the bill that would eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, which allocates visas for  those coming from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. The White House opposes the Stem Jobs Act, as does NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, which said, in a statement, “In the acrimonious political debate about immigration reform, we lose our way by embracing a mistaken, zero-sum approach to permanent immigration.”

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From CNBC:

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