Content and Focus:

The Learning & Government Briefing and Roundtable will be a high energy and intensive one day program. Elliott Masie will facilitate briefings and roundtables addressing these key topics, issues and questions:

 

  • Learning Changes in and for Government. Updates on evolving approaches to providing learning to employees, contractors and citizen/customers:

    • Beyond Classroom and e-Learning: Social Learning
    • Compliance and Learning
    • User Content and Context
    • Content ReUse: Realities and Challenges
    • Collaboration: The Wisdom of Crowds
    • Rapid Learning Development
    • Shifting Roles for Learning Systems (LMS and LCMS)
    • Beyond the Hype: 3D, Virtual and Dispersed
    • Performance Support Systems
    • Leveraging Coaches and Remote Expertise
    • Learning with Restricted Travel and Budgets
  • Changing Learning Landscape: With a new Administration in Washington, increased transparency efforts, talent shifts and a significant focus on creating new jobs, what is the role of Learning and Government?
    • Learning and New Intiatitives
    • Learning Leadership in the Obama Administration
    • Transparency and Learning
    • Implications and Impacts of New Legislation for Learning
    • ReSkilling, Job Training and Partnerships
  • Learning and Talent in Government:  What are the new leadership skills required in government and how do we develop our employees to that requirement? What shifts are needed with both an impending retirement bubble as well as economically delayed retirements?
    • Leadership Competencies for UnCertain & Changing Times
    • New Models of Leadership Development in Government
    • Chief Learning Officers and the Chief Human Capital Officer 
    • Retirement Challenges: Knowledge Capture
    • Retirement Challenges: Learning for Succession
    • Public/Private Partnerships for Talent Development


  • Government vs. Corporate Learning – Compare & Contrast: We will dive into several distinct models for enterprise learning in the government sector and compare/contrast them to practices in the corporate sector.
    • Learning Strategies: Public vs. Private Sector
    • Learning Governance Models in Government: Shared Service and Corporate Universities?
    • Metrics for Accountability: Learning Metrics and Avoiding Silly Numbers
    • Educating Policy Makers about Learning
    • Changing Roles for Subject Matter Experts and Expertise
    • Public/Private Partnerships for Talent Development
    • Evolving Learning Careers


  • Changes in the Learning Marketplace:  How is the marketplace and procurement for learning services and products in the government sector changing?  We’ll explore shifts in providers, procurement and the role of open source assets.
    • Marketplace for Learning Resources is Changing!
    • Procurement and Contracting Models for Learning Shifting
    • Roles for Higher Education, Retired Employees and Unconventional Suppliers
    • Open Source: White House Examples and Experiments
    • Costs of Learning Resources in Recessionary Marketplace
    • Contracting Across Agencies for Learning Programs Shared Use or Reuse
    • Learning Beyond Employees: Citizens, States, Contractors and More
    • Learning Resources for Social Learning and User Content
    • Leveraging Collaborative and Knowledge Systems for Learning
You will have lots of opportunities to ask questions and drive “drill-downs” during the program.  The Roundtable format will engage you in dialogues with colleagues from other agencies and organizations on these key issues.  In addition to the one day program, there will be a 60 minute live, on-line follow-up and update in July.