Kerryn Kohl | Co-CEO and Co-Founder | 4thTalent | mail me |
This article by Kerryn Kohl, co-founder of 4thTalent, is about developing competence for the future world of work and is the first-part of a five-part series on the Future of Education run by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).
Over the past few months, we’ve been pushed into a new way of being. Thanks to COVID-19, the digital revolution has been fast-tracked and, whether we were ready for it or not, we’re now all scrambling to jump on board.
When it comes to learning, organisational behaviourist and learning strategist I believe we need to understand the technology that is available in the educational sector, and how it can help us change the way we learn.
Learning vs Education
When we founded 4thTalent, it wasn’t with the vision in mind to improve on workplace learning, or the delivery thereof, but to truly make it a transformational process.
Transformation is one of the key things that sets learning apart from education. Learning is a process of transforming, of really being able to make meaning of something, and understand how best we need to apply it to our lives.
This contrasts to education, which in the past has been training focused. Our education system is based on rote learning and a stimulus response, without much thinking required.
Corporates are stuck in the education approach, and in order to transform, we need to step into the realm of really learning, and dedicate ourselves to a multifaceted, lifelong approach.
Hyper-personalised learning
For us, technology has provided an essential tool to help reimagine learning, one of the key advantages being that we can now Hyper-Personalise the learning experience.
We’re seeing ‘the Click based approach’ come through with a lot of the Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) on the market, which are providing opportunities for learning on demand. However, I believe that being able to choose from a wide range of digital content, and receiving recommendations based on simple and preference-based algorithms is simply not enough. We need to take it to the next level, a level we’ve termed Hyper-Personalisation.
This entails understanding exactly what a learner needs, what their gap in competence is, understanding their current level of proficiency and matching this to the learning content that will help them move that needle. This highly targeted approach to learning requires the combination of four key elements: centricity, orientation, reflection and measurement.
Centricity
We have developed a 4th-quadrant model to promote and develop centricity, and to ensure that learning drives performance. This model takes a two-tiered approach, by being…
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