Comments on: The human performance landscape

By: Ray Tolley

Ray Tolley — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:29:34 +0000

A quiet word to Ray – ‘LEAD’ is a metal unless you mean the verb ‘to lead’ – LED is the past tense of ‘to lead’.
However, more seriously, do you not think that collaboration has a much more significant impact on learning processes than the diagram would suggest, and what of reflection? In today’s world are not all of these predominantly e-learning processes – so why not remove the ‘e-’ altogether?
Jay, I was very moved by many sections of your book. In particular I often quote your page on the ‘Googleplex’ when talking about the design of e-learning environments and in particular e-Portfolios. A most helpful book!
Ray T

By: The Knowledge Management Landscape at Sims Learning Connections

The Knowledge Management Landscape at Sims Learning Connections — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:32:12 +0000

[...] October update, prompted by feedback in comments here and at Jay Cross’s first alternative view: When viewing the ovals, mentally insert “the methods and goals of…” in front of [...]

By: Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:56:29 +0000

Thanks, Ray. Now I have the right perspective and will take another look

By: Ray Sims

Ray Sims — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:30:21 +0000

Harold (and Jay): I’ll admit to defeat on the diagram as I’m zero-for-three with Stephen, Jay, and now you…all folks that I have great respect for regarding opinion.

And, beating on the poor dead horse…what I was trying to get to, and obviously was too obtuse with, is a ‘class’ called “methods”. As in “the methods of library of science” and “the methods of informal learning”, etc. And then making an attempt at grouping some of the methods — e.g. among the methods of Learning & Development are e-learning (in the self-study sense) and instructor lead.

Ray

By: Jay Cross

Jay Cross — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:46:20 +0000

For starters, KM, OD, etc. are all conscious attempts to improve human performance. I’ll try my hand at sketching this…

By: Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:53:43 +0000

I have to admit that Ray’s diagram doesn’t make sense to me either. The blue ovals are not in the same class (e.g. informal learning & library of science), so I don’t understand the relationships that this diagram is supposed to show.

Your diagram makes sense to me. It shows the individual’s relationship to sources of information/knowledge, filtered through individual biases.

An area of interest for me is the relationship (or lack of) between all the perspectives on your elephant. What is in common between KM, HPT, OD, etc and where are the major divergences. This could make for an informative diagram and might cause some interesting conversations between the fields. I don’t enough about all of these to show these connections, but perhaps someone will take this on as a thesis topic