**"Circle of Peers: Creating Space for Learning Together"**

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2. What is Circle of Peers? The most important aspect is to create SPACE for you.. To: • Share • Formulate • Inform • Network So here goes…. Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

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4. Programme for today Learning and Development • Where has it come from? • Where is it now? • Where is going? • A mix of input and discussion Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

5. Programme for today • How can Learning & Development evolve to meet the challenges facing organisations? Brainstorm • What can be done? Group discussions • Summary of discussions • CPD Reflection • Lunch! Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

6. Roots… • Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu – 5th century BC "If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. But if you let me experience, I will learn" • 400 – 1400 BC Code of Hammurabi, the law that governed ancient Egypt 2000 BC Apprenticeships - were sent as apprentices to live with masters of this form of art who would share with them the knowledge and teach them the skills they needed to succeed in this line of work. Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

7. Roots… • 1800s - During the Industrial Revolution, intensive training became a necessity as all did not have the knowledge or skills. Vestibule training – near the job training. This was carried out in the factory but in a room close to the problem. • 1930s Role Playing first devised by Dr Jacob Moreno in 1910. A new method for training people by placing them in a situation near to the situation that could occur in the workplace. There is practice in “safe” surroundings Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

8. Roots… • 1940s Job Instruction Training first used during World War II. Designed to develop trainers so that they were able to train their workers in various areas. • 1956 Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives 3 domains of educational activities were identified: • Cognitive: mental skills - Knowledge • Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas - Attitude • Psychomotor: manual or physical skills - Skills Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

9. Roots… Lifelong Learning • Patricia Cross' 1981 book, Adults as learnersdescribed three features of lifelong learning: • A more holistic concept of growth or education than that which has been used in traditional formal education. • A wider view of providers of and settings for education than merely schools (what she terms the learning society). • The active agency or self-directedness of the learner throughout the life span. Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

10. Roots… Experiential Learning David Kolb's • Experiential Learning: Experience as the source of learning and development(1984) theorized that four combinations of perceiving and processing determine four learning styles that make up a learning cycle.  Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

11. Roots… Experiential Learning and Learning Styles David Kolb's Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

12. Roots… Learning Styles Honey and Mumford Learning Styles Questionnaire • Activist • Pragmatist • Theorist • Reflector https://www.talentlens.co.uk/develop/peter-honey-learning-style-series Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

13. Roots… The Learning Organization • 1990, Peter Senge "Learning Organization" with his book, • The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

14. Roots… • eLearning • Jay Cross (2004) has normally been been credited with coining the term “elearning” in 1998. However, the term seems to have been in use as far back as 1997 when Aldo Morri wrote an article for Telephony Online, A bright future for distance learning: One Touch/Hughes alliance promotes interactive 'e-learning' service: “The market for corporate interactive distance learning-now known as e-learning—has boomed along with the growth in the Internet and corporate intranets.” • While elearning has been defined in a number of ways, the one I prefer is by Victor Jeurissen, a global practice leader for IBM Management Development Solutions: the use of innovative technologies and learning models to transform the way individuals and organizations acquire new skills and access knowledge. • For more on eLearning, see Reflections on eLearning. Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

15. Roots… Blended Learning 1999 • Blended learning is a mix of delivery methods. This method can include any combination of any of the above delivery methods (McSporran & King 2002). • There seems to be something almost magical about blending the interactive and social nature of classrooms with the self-paced environment of eLearning • In addition, eLearning can have a attrition or drop-out rate as high as 20% as it often treats the person as a lone learner. • So blended learning supports Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

16. Where we are now Diverse approaches • Traditional course driven “brochure” style • No technological support • Investment in expensive Learning Management Systems • No clear Learning and Development strategy Passionate about developing people www.csgconsult.com

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20. …and it’s Socially Digital! www.csgconsult.com