The future as we know it....

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In February I spoke at Learning Technologies in London. It's an annual two day event for learning and development professionals where we meet to discuss and debate issues around new technology, innovation in the workplace and corporate learning. Many of the sessions are standard - a speaker at the front talks about a specialised issues and there is time at the end (usually) for some discussion and questions.

This year, we wanted to break the format a little, so David Kelly and I, with the expert chairing and refereeing skills of Andrew Jacobs, put together a debate on future technologies in work based learning. During the discussion, we touched on legal, moral and ethical issues of technology and human interfaces, virtual vs augmented reality, the advantages and disadvantages of search engines, artificial intelligence, change and disruption (where I elaborate on my new inertia and disruption model) and organisational context and culture.

As you will probably ascertain by watching the video, we are role playing here and there, adopting stances that we don't necessarily agree with, simply to promote some disagreement. The audience rose to the challenge and joined in with some great questions, both in the room and via the social media backchannels. I hope you enjoy watching the discussion, and gain some insight into what we think the future might hold for learning and development.

 


The future as we know it.... by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.