Collaborative Learning

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Territorial, defensive, siloed

A story of everything wrong with prescriptive top-down learning as we know it

In previous chapters, we’ve charted the pivot in organizational learning away from content to people, offered a crash course in the childhood and rocky adolescence of e-learning, and outlined the science behind our blueprint for what learners really crave: stimulating social experiences driven by collaborative learning that help people upskill from within. All of that may be well and good, I hear you saying, but what does this really mean for individual learners?

Now let’s break things down with a real story of why our old top-down learning culture simply can’t give people the support they need to follow their curiosity, learn from ...