835 - The Gamification Game

Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - July 28, 2014.
#835 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
56,577 Readers - www.masie.com - twitter: emasie - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2014 - Oct 26-29 - Orlando. 634 Registered Already.

Announcing: The Gamification Game! Gamification and Learning Explored.

The word Gamification evokes many responses from Learning Professionals:

* It would be very cool to use competition, rewards and games to engage workers in workplace learning.
* Is Gamification really a deep game or a just a quick blast that is limited in impact?
* Gamification can be a software layer living on top of a learning activity - integrated easily.
* Does Gamification scale and sustain?
* How do Introverts respond to Gamification that is often socially tilted?
* Where is the evidence on learning impacts of Gamification?
* Is Gamification always linked to digital badges or rewards, and is there a non-digital version of Gamification?
* How do Gamification systems play with LMS systems?

I am fascinated and challenged by the conversations about Gamification. And, there is a need for us to look at the evidence to explore when Gamification works or even interferes with workplace learning.

On a personal level, I LOVE the role that Gaming can play in increasing engagement for some people on some tasks. I have played chess as a child, crossword puzzles as an adult and am fascinated with games used in learning and simulation areas.

Gamification software is popping up, often targeted at Customer Engagement or Participation Engagement in a corporate collaborative space. Gamification is often linked to “badges” or public awards for degrees of involvement. And, many companies are experimenting with Gamification wrapped around internal social networks or innovation contests.

So, what should we do at Learning 2014 (Oct 26 to 29) to explore and examine the role of Gamification and Learning? Many conferences are using functions in a mobile app (like our Engage app) that provide points for people talking to suppliers or networking with others. But, we wanted to go deeper and explore what works or does not work with Gamification, exploring a wider set of Games, Gamification Packages and Methods.

We are announcing “The Gamification Game” at Learning 2014. Throughout the conference, we will provide multiple options, experiences and discussions for participants to use, evaluate and explore different Gamification approaches. The “Game” part of this is to explore what is REAL, what is HYPE, what is NOT YET ad what is TOMORROW in this world.

“The Gamification Game” will be a vendor-neutral look at these engagement and contest models - with an eye to how they are applied to learning activities. We will use high tech, low tech and even a few games aimed at the introverts in the community. You and your colleagues are invited to participate in “The Gamification Game” and help move the dialogue forward!

Complete details at http://tinyurl.com/gamificationgame

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

834 - Leadership Development Shifts, Making Learning Personal, Learning Retreats

Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - July 23, 2014.
#834 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
56,562 Readers - www.masie.com - twitter: emasie - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2014 - Oct 26-29 - Orlando. 527 Registered Already.

1. Leadership Development Trends - Patterns & Shifts.
2. Making Learning Personal - An Article.
3. Retreats for Learning Colleague Groups.

1. Leadership Development Trends - Patterns & Shifts: My scans on trends in Leadership Development have been revealing some intriguing and divergent shifts:

* Significant Reduction in Face to Face Classroom Leadership Time - (25.9% of organizations)
* Radical Increase in use of TED Videos in Leadership - (42.6% of organizations)
* Growth and Expansion of Assessment & Feedback Tools - (41.5% of organizations)
* Significant Increase in Total Time per Learner in Leadership Activities - (27.8% of organizations)

A summary of our early findings, along with a model of Elements of Leadership Development, available at: http://tinyurl.com/masieleaders

2. Making Learning Personal - An Article: I recently wrote a column for Chief Learning Magazine on “Making Learning Personal”.  The shift and demand for Learning Personalization is both growing and challenging to learning organizations.  My article is online at: http://www.learning2014.com/index.php/item/making-learning-personal.html

3. Retreats for Learning Colleague Groups: Over 27 companies and government agencies are organizing Retreats for their learning professionals at Learning 2014. Groups including Farmers Insurance, Southwest Airlines, GE, Axalta and Accenture are bringing groups of learning colleagues to Orlando for Learning 2014 - as we provide discounts, space and additional time for them to participate in the conference activities, network with other organizations and also meet together before, during or after the event. It is a highly cost effective and intense model for bringing learning teams together from across the nation or globe.  Contact cathy@masie.com for details on Group and Retreat programs.

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

833 - Leadership Development Pulse Survey, Disney and JetBlue Behind the Scenes Tours

Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - July 18, 2014.
#833 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
56,553 Readers - www.masie.com - twitter: emasie - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2014 - Oct 26-29 - Orlando. 507 Registered Already.

1. Leadership Development Shifts? 5 Minute Pulse Survey.
2. Disney & JetBlue Behind the Scenes Tours Announced.
3. Norm Kamikow, CLO Publisher, Dies.

1. Leadership Development Shifts? 5 Minute Pulse Survey: Leadership Development courses, retreats, high-potential and coaching approaches are shifting in organizations around the world! New design models, a distributed workforce and changing expectations of rising leaders are part of the shift.  Please take 5 minutes to respond to The MASIE Center Pulse Survey on Leadership Development Shifts. This is an anonymous scan of how organizations are changing or not changing their leadership development approaches.  We will publish a summary in one week:

5 Minute - Leadership Development Shifts Pulse Survey.
http://www.masie.com/leaders2014

2. Disney & JetBlue “Behind the Scenes” Tours Announced: We are pleased to offer 2 optional, low-cost “Behind the Scenes” tours of Disney and JetBlue for participants at our Learning 2014 program in Orlando on Sunday, October 26th:

* Disney Business Behind the Magic Tour: You will have the unforgettable opportunity to go behind the scenes and experience time-tested Disney business philosophies at one of the leading business operations in the world firsthand.  This 3-hour tour features the five core principles taught by Disney Institute and shows how they come to life each day at the Walt Disney World® Resort for Cast Members and Guests.

* JetBlue Tour: A two hour visit of the JetBlue training facility in Orlando providing a peek behind the flight deck door. During this unique opportunity you will tour the facility and see the equipment used for simulation based training. In addition you will have the opportunity to network and speak with some of JetBlue University’s training department and learn about some of the programs offered to their employees.

Space is limited and only open to registered Learning 2014 participants. Details and reservation forms at: http://www.learning2014.com/tour

3. Remembering Norm Kamikow, CLO Publisher: Sadly, a key leader in the learning industry, Norm Kamikow, the founder and publisher of CLO Magazine, passed away suddenly on Monday. Norm has been an important publisher, convener and collaborator for decades in the learning and talent fields.

Over the years, Norm has added new publications, events and research services to the learning field. I have been honored to be a regular columnist in CLO Magazine and keynoter at his conferences.  Norm has moved our field forward, supported knowledge sharing amongst learning implementers and been a valued partner in our field.  We will miss Norm’s humor, directness and optimism.

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

832 - CEO on Skills, Curiosity and Learning, I Was Wrong

Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - July 15, 2014.
#832 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
56,544 Readers - www.masie.com - twitter: emasie - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2014 - Oct 26-29 - Orlando. 507 Registered Already.

1. Curiosity Rules and Rocks Learning?
2. “I Was Wrong…”
3. CEO on Skills & Workforce - Nick Pinchuk from Snap-on!

1. Curiosity Rules and Rocks Learning? One of the words that we don’t hear a lot in the world of workforce learning is CURIOSITY! You will find it throughout the literature in K-12 education, but it drops out of most corporate learning conversations.

Yet, Curiosity is the Largest Predictor of Learning. From my years as a classroom trainer, I would be able to almost immediately “read” the eyes and spirit of participants to sense their level of Curiosity on the topic. If Curiosity was HIGH, then a decent learning design would work. But, if Curiosity was LOW or MISSING, forget it!  Madeline Hunter, one of my heroes on instructional design, would argue that we must concentrate on Curiosity at the start of any structured learning experience.

As learners are given more control and personalization, Curiosity will be even more powerful. I would love to hear from Learning TRENDS readers on how you think about, design for and integrate Curiosity into your learning activities and strategies.  Send me a note to emasie@masie.com and I will share a summary next week.

2. “I Was Wrong… “: Last weekend, I wrote a chapter for a new book from Larry Israelite called “Lies About Learning - Part 2”.  My topic was Lies about Learning Technology.  So, I added several sections about “lies” that I ended up telling - either through over-enthusiasm or not applying a sense of affordance to analyze the real impact of a new technology.  In other words, sometimes I got lost in the hype.  Here are 3 of my confessions of “lies about learning” that I helped tell:

* Second Life: I predicted that organizations would significantly adopt visual worlds like Second Life as a replacement for conference calls, webinars and even face-to-face meetings.  Didn’t happen that way!
* SCORM for Reusability: I was part of the team that pushed the corporate adoption of SCORM in the 1990s.  I thought it would lead to widespread simpler design and higher reuse of content.  Didn’t happen that way!
* The Perfect Learning Portal: I had 26 CEOs of LMS companies on a stage at my TechLearn Conference in early 2000 and I predicted that a great learning portal would dominate the learner’s perspective.  Didn’t happen that way!

Yes, many predictions were on target and some ended up evolving in even better ways. But, it was healthy to say, with some hindsight, “I was wrong!”  At Learning 2014, we will have several “I was wrong” activities.  Honesty is a key element of being a learner. :)

3. CEO on Skills & Workforce - Nick Pinchuk from Snap-on!  I am honored to announce a Special Keynote Speaker at Learning 2014: Nick Pinchuk, the CEO and Chair of Snap-on International.  Nick will be sharing a CEO’s perspective on skills: employee skill importance, skills for customers, and skills for developing a future workforce.  Nick is also the Chair of the Skills for America Future Advisory Board and a fierce advocate for CEOs to claim a direct stake in skill building and development.  Read about his role at: http://www.learning2014.com/index.php/item/nick-pinchok-ceo-on-skills.htm

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

831 - Join Me in a Learning MOOC; Dept of Education Dialogue, Next Generation Medicine

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