As I mentioned in an earlier posting, Friedman’s "The World Is Flat" is stimulating a great deal of conversation these days in the learning world. It is providing a much needed unifying theme or context for exploring and better understanding the many seemingly disparate changes we see going on around us everyday. Here are three examples of initiatives started in the last several weeks focusing on this theme.
The board of directors of the eLearning Forum recently agreed to use the flat world as overarching programming theme for the upcoming year. The details have yet to be worked out for the related topics for the individual months, but starting later this year all programs will be explicitly tied to exploring the implications of the flat theme.
The implications of the flat world will be the subject for the September conference call of the HRForum membership. Eilif Trodsen and I, representing the eLearning Forum, will join the HRForum's executive director, Aryae Coopersmith, to facilitate a lively discussion.
And the Santa Clara University’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society is planning to co-sponsor an interview series (a podcast) with leading Silicon Valley executives and leading academics on the implications for education and workplace learning in a flat world. The initial interviews are tentatively scheduled to begin in late October and will be conducted by Prof. Geoffrey Bowker (SCU), Eilif Trondsen (SRIC-BI Learning on Demand), and myself (Altus Learning Systems).
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