On Friday I had the great pleasure of attending a presentation sponsored by Learning Tree International and featuring Bob Mosher.  Bob calls himself a Global Learning and Strategy Evangelist and I certainly came away from his presentation feeling like a convert!

Bob’s impressive experience includes turns as Director of Learning Strategy for Microsoft, Executive Director of Education for Element K, and several years now with LearningGuide Solutions.  I was excited and intrigued when Bob started his presentation by telling us that one of his three objectives was “to inspire us to go back to our organizations and help establish a holistic ecosystem which features dynamic learning.”

In a nutshell, Bob helped our group acknowledge that learning has changed.  People aren’t going to class to learn as much anymore.  Learners want rapid, adaptable, collaborative, self-directed learning at their moment of need.  He calls this shift Learning 3.0.

Most of the presentation drilled down into how we, as learning and development professionals, can do a much better job of designing and organizing informal learning that can be consumed by learners when and how they need it.  I am working on a development program for emerging leaders right now for a global company and I am already applying what I learned by focusing our design on the precise “moments of need” our learners will likely encounter post-training.

If you’d like to learn more about Bob Mosher and his ideas, follow him on Twitter at @BMOSH or check out his blog at http://performancesupport.blogspot.com/.  Let us both know what you think and how you are applying what you learn.