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Better, Smarter, Faster: How Web 3.0 Will Transform Learning In High-Performance Organizations
ASTD - American Society for Training and Development, Jan 2011, Pages: 41
Emerging technologies continue to play an increasingly vital role in organizational learning. While the benefits of emerging technologies are broad and unprecedented, it is nearly impossible to keep pace with the rapid evolution of these tools.
Even as today's technology experts discuss artificial intelligence, immersive virtual worlds, and the future of mobile devices, many organizations are still wrestling with how best to leverage online learning.
This Study shows that high-performing organizations with effective learning functions are clearly more open to embracing emerging technologies. Those organizations that have embraced Web 2.0 in learning are reaping the benefits.
The Study also demonstrates that Web 3.0 technologies such as simulations, virtual worlds, and smart search hold tremendous potential for the future of organizational learning.
The increasingly central role of technology in organizational learning is both a boon and a burden. While the benefits of emerging technologies are broad and unprecedented, it is nearly impossible to keep pace with the rapid evolution of these tools. Even as today's technology experts discuss artificial intelligence, immersive virtual worlds, and the future of mobile devices, many organizations are still wrestling with how best to leverage online learning.
ASTD noted in its recent report, The Rise of Social Media: Enhancing Collaboration and Productivity Across Generations, that learning functions have not fully adopted many of the tools, technologies, and concepts associated with Web 2.0, and yet the next evolution, often referred to as Web 3.0, is upon us.
Rather than a collection of technologies or applications that can be purchased or installed, Web 3.0 represents a shift in how people interact with the web. Standards are continuously being created to make the data and information on the web smarter; mobile devices are becoming more powerful and versatile, making almost any kind of Internet activity available on the go; and immersive and virtual environments are becoming richer and more complex.
Better, Smarter, Faster: How Web 3.0 Will Transform Learning in High-Performance Organizations (hereafter, the Study) examines the ways these types of technologies affect and influence learning today and the impact they may have in the future. There is also a special emphasis on the practices of high-performing organizations. Some of the issues investigated include:
- the definition of and concepts associated with Web 3.0
- the factors that distinguish high performers from low performers in terms of approaches to use of technology for learning
- current and future approaches to immersive technologies
- current and future approaches to mobile learning
- effectiveness in sharing knowledge and learning content
- the primary barriers to adopting Web 3.0 technologies
- future possibilities for Web 3.0 technology and learning.
The foundation of Better, Smarter, Faster: How Web 3.0 Will Transform Learning in High-Performance Organizations is an analysis of responses from 1,357 business and learning professionals, and it includes information gathered from interviews conducted with representatives of high-performing organizations.
The Study shows that high-performing organizations with effective learning functions are clearly more open to embracing emerging technologies. Those organizations that have embraced Web 2.0 in learning are reaping the benefits. The Study also found that Web 3.0 technologies such as simulations, virtual worlds, and smart search hold tremendous potential for organizational learning. executive
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