831 - Join Me in a Learning MOOC; Dept of Education Dialogue, Next Generation Medicine
July 9, 2014 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - July 9, 2014.
#831 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
56,523 Readers - www.masie.com - twitter: emasie - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2014 - Oct 26-29 - Orlando. 429 Registered Already.
1. Learning Leaders MOOC by Harvard & edX: Join Me!
2. Dept. of Education Dialogue on Learning Yesterday.
3. Next Generation Medicine Keynote: Marc Hodosh.
1. Learning Leaders MOOC by Harvard & edX: Join Me! This morning I started a new, no cost MOOC on Leaders of Learning, taught by Richard Elmore, the Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This is a six lesson course, focused on Leaders of Learning - in all sectors. The core is focused on our own theories of learning:
“Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.”
I would like to invite fellow Learning TRENDS readers to consider taking part or all of this MOOC. It is built on the edX platform, developed by Harvard and MIT, and we would love to have a cohort of corporate learning professionals learning and reacting to both the content and also the MOOC process. To sign up (with no costs), just go to: http://tinyurl.com/leadermooc
And, send me an email with your name and contact info to emasie@masie.com Let’s collaborate together online and learn about learning and the Harvard MOOC model together.
2. Dept. of Education Dialogue on Learning Yesterday: Yesterday was a very exciting day for our Learning CONSORTIUM and The MASIE Center. We were honored to spend the day at the US Dept of Education with 10 Chief Learning Officers and Corporate Learning Leaders - in a dialogue with the senior leadership of the Education Department. Secretary Arne Duncan spent time with the group, we had deep dialogues about skills development, competencies, “micro-credentials”, extending workforce development to address the long term unemployed and ways that we can share knowledge about learning across all learning sectors, including K-12, Higher Education, Vocational and our world of Corporate Education.
We were also honored to have senior members of the White House National Economic Council, members of the Labor Department and the leaders of policy and research that impacts learning and education in the United States. The members of our team included the learning leaders from the largest retail, insurance, restaurant, consulting and media companies. We developed a series of action steps that we will spearhead through The MASIE Center that will include:
* Building a Request for Learning Apps - small and low cost apps to support learning and performance on a focused topic or skillset. Together, we will help create a competition and marketplace for learning apps - that would span the full learning world.
* Sharing Research Across the Learning Silos - higher education and K to 12 are facing some of the same issues as corporate - as they explore learning personalization, learning compression, competency assessment and other shifts in learning methods and technologies. We need to create real-time shared findings and innovations across the learning sectors.
* Upskilling Partnerships - the corporate and government members of our dialogue shared ways that we can create more “upskilling” opportunities for the long term unemployed and non-promoted worker segments. How can new models of apprenticeships and alternative learning technologies address this issue - that impacts our society and economy.
Special thanks to Secretary Arne Duncan, Assistant Secretary Johan Uvin, and Richard Culatta, Director, Office of Educational Technology along with Byron Auguste, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council for this non-partisan and highly stimulating meeting. We will be sharing the results, projects and conversations in the weeks ahead with the larger learning field.
3. Next Generation Medicine Keynote: Marc Hodosh. I am honored to announce another one of our Keynoters for Learning 2014. Marc Hodosh is a remarkable analyst and inventor in the worlds of science and medicine innovation. Marc will lead an interactive keynote on “Next Generation Medicine” - as technology, social knowledge and expanding/personalizing data reshapes the future of medicine. Many health and medicine elements expand the knowledge and learning aspects of health - from wearable devices, to mobile health coaching to personalized health treatments. Marc is hosting and producing a new television series focused on these changes and he will bring these exciting perspectives to Learning 2014.
Marc led the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, a $10 million competition to inspire rapid and cost effective genome sequencing technology; which followed the successful $10 million Ansari Space X PRIZE. He has been a consultant to inventor Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development and is also Chairman of Dean’s FIRST Robotics competition in the Boston region, which inspires high school students to pursue careers in science & technology. In addition Marc and Elliott share a new passion for flying and exploring the role of Drones and Flying Photography in expanding perspectives and learning.
Here is the bio on Marc and we are so honored to have him as one of our keynoters at Learning 2014 - Oct 26 to 29, 2014: http://www.learning2014.com/blog/item/medicine
Yours in learning,
Elliott Masie
email: emasie@masie.com
twitter: @emasie
MASIE Center Seminars, Events and Services:
* Learning 2014 - October 2014 - Orlando, Florida.
* Membership in The Learning CONSORTIUM
Info and Registration: http://www.masie.com - twitter: emasie