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Self- Managed Learning (SML)
Early in this century several new themes emerged in the discipline previously called Training and Development.
The first of these was a trend away from the traditional terminology of training and towards learning. This trend suggested that it wasn't really training that mattered; it was simply a device or mechanism designed to deliver an end product. For individuals and teams taking part in training events this product is learning in the form of skills, knowledge and behaviours that can be exported from the learning environment into the workplace situation in which they function day to day. Top quality training interventions in the 21st Century must therefore be demonstrably learner-centred and produce people who are better enabled to perform in order to match current or future standards.
In addition, there has been a sea change in responsibility away from the business or organisation and towards the individual to manage their own learning. Whereas conventional training tends to be highly structured with set start and finish times, self-managed learning hints strongly at greater flexibility in which the participant can take control of the speed and frequency of the learning process and adopt a blended approach or combination between say modules of conventional training, coaching, e-learning and SML group sessions.
Within Associated Training and Consultancy we acknowledge and welcome this recent development in the belief that it will continue to raise both standards and client expectations. We are fully able to participate in SML initiatives and blended learning. We wish, however, to sound a note of caution. There is a risk that the benefits of classroom learning may be overlooked because of anti-training propaganda. First class conventional training with built-in experiential learning elements still delivers cost-effective results and differs from the sheep-dip pejorative tag sometimes attached to it. It should also be bourn in mind that peoples' preferred learning styles vary and that e-learning or even blended learning does not suit everybody equally.
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