Modern Mentoring

Appendix I

Dispelling Three Myths About Collaborative Learning

Think you know what your employees want when it comes to collaboration and knowledge sharing in the workplace? In a 2013 benchmarking study by Towards Maturity called New Learning Agenda, researchers found that:

• 88 percent of learners want to be able to learn at their own pace.
• 77 percent of learners want to engage with online learning.
• Four out of five people are willing to share what they know with others online.
• Seven out of 10 people are motivated by using tools that will help them network and learn from others.
• 86 percent learn what they need to know for work by collaborating with others.

The last statistic should make us all pause. If 86 percent of our employees are learning ...