tom abeles (tabeles@tmn.com)
Tue, 25 May 1999 22:02:38 -0500
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:02:38 -0500 From: tom abeles <tabeles@tmn.com> Subject: Re: KM & KM
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Philip Duchastel wrote, in a small part:
Isn't CoP just social organization / organizational structure?
> Important in its own right, yes, but not learning. Agreed?
>
> I keep coming back to the question: why do we make learning so
> difficult? Why can it not be more natural? There is surely something to
> learn in there for ID!
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This is worthy of further thought. Let us go to the infamous "Borg" in
Star Trek- the "collective" which is greater than an individual. In the
business world ( profits or non-profits), it is the organization which
strives to survive and the individuals are like cells which are
interchangeable over time and space.
What goleman contends is that organizational learning and problem
solving is more effective as a collective than as a sum of indeividual
efforts and that this "team" is more effective if diverse rather than
coposed of a lot of similar parties.
Learning organizations ala Senge is a similar but more detached approach
and the work of many other management "gurus is to build teams where
individual learning is maixmized to the benefit of oth the individual
AND the organization- a dynamic tension in this emerging world of
Petziner's "New Pioneers".
Thus, one effect maybe that individual mastery of knowledge may not be
as important to the larger communities in which an individual travels
and thus learning needs to be redefined. This goes back to your original
post regarding organization around a knowledge base with easy access and
organiaation around a connection of human biocomputers. The latter calls
for a radically different model of learning and learning design than the
former which is an amplification of the individual as a learning and
content mastery engine. It is similar to difference in The Academy where
we see cooperative research among faculty in the sciences and lone
eagles in the humanities.
But as Michael Jackson says "its neither black nor white" But it is
real. And the issue becomes more imporatant when we look at where
learners get their "education" when more education is being provided
through corporate unviersities and training programs or even joint
ventures between corporations and universities and more constructivists
appearing in the private, for-profit, universities.
And that is the issue in your question regarding CoP's. Aye, there's
the rub!
thoughts?
tom abeles
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