The Future of Corporate Learning – 4 Critical Implications

Instructional design consulting experts take note: as the next generation enters the workplace, their experience of school-based learning will profoundly affect their expectations of corporate learning.

No longer do teachers simply lecture. Today’s students learn much more interactively and in collaboration with their peers. Technology provides many avenues of information delivery and the individual learner has more options as to how to receive and process the information they seek.

Here are the implications for corporate learning:

1. Learners expect to be actively engaged at all times. Learning should not be theoretical but needs to be relevant to their jobs. Learners want to be able to apply their learning right away.
2. The best learning occurs as a collaborative process where others are involved in finding solutions together.
3. Learning happens continuously, not just in the classroom. It is tested and reflected upon. The results are evaluated and improvements made.
4. Learners want to help craft their curriculum, expect individualized plans, and welcome timely feedback.