Learning Lab Denmark has an Open-ended manifesto on research and learning:
1. We must think, act and learn informally. I believe that the following is important for our understanding of learning:
- If more and more are going to learn more and more then we will have to focus both on formal and informal learning and learning situations,
- We will have to understand informal learning much better and develop adequate forms of pedagogy and didactics for informal learning,
- We will have to recognise that informal learning is typically social learning.
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4. What we know, we know together.
We will focus not only on the abilities to learn and to learn to learn, but also on the ability to create knowledge through conceptualisation and on the social organisation of experience gained. This is all the more central when we recognise that more and more of our social and economic activity is concerned with the creation of knowledge....
15. Knowledge sharing is not a zerosum game.
I think that an important challenge is the creation of forms of work where not only the doing of the job/the solution of the task is what counts, but where the creation of new experience is central. Making these new experiences available in the organisation is what constitutes the creation of wealth....
23. To be meaningful, research today has to take place in networks.
Nothing interesting happens in isolation. We need to break down the laboratory walls. We interpret others, and they interpret us. Research is a constant exchange of information in a social relation where judgments are made, and new interpretations created. Interpretations are tested and research is taking the form of a social learning process through interaction.
...via elearningpost
Posted by dcoates at September 18, 2003 12:03 PM