A sustainable workscape must provide the means and motivation for corporate
citizens to learn what they need: the know-how, know-who, and know-what to get
things done and get better at doing them. This takes more than access to social
networking tools, blogs, and wikis. Self-organization helps but L&D
professionals need to supplement social systems with scaffolding that focuses on
learning. Without that, many organizations will descend into an aimless world
of social noise and meaningless chit-chat.
Keith Hamon on 16 Dec 11There is a fascinating distributed dialogue about the nature of instructional scaffolding, the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and how they can be viewed in the domain of today's learning landscapes.
