What does this mean for HR professionals?

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Jeanne will be continuing this discussion on the saving patterns of Gen Y when she speaks at the coming TD Ameritrade Institutional 2012 conference, “Shaping The Future Together.” Jeanne is speaking about “Learn What Gen X and Gen Y Want in the Workplace.”

We will be checking our Twitter feed so send us your questions on this topic to #TDAI2012 and we’ll will write a future post on the dialogue and questions about Gen X and Gen Y.

So what does this mean for you in HR and talent management?
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That’s our take … what’s yours? We want to hear from you – especially if you are a member of Gen X or a Millennial. Send us your comments, and we will continue the dialogue.

The National Education Association and the State Educational Technology Directors Association offer these key questions about ways to integrate technology into learning, adapted here for consideration for workplace learning:

• What tools and technologies will help our learners/employees create, collaborate and communicate better?
• How can employees learn with technology the way that they already live with their technology — especially Millennial employees?
• What is the appropriate role of the web, social media, mobile technologies, interactive white-boards, etc., in today’s classroom?
• What are the digital literacies that have to be incorporated for the ways we work, learn and communicate in the workplace? (For more on digital literacies, see http://www.p21.org.)

[FROM: Create! Communicate! Collaborate!: The 21st-century learner is here–is your classroom ready? - By Mark Stevens - NEA Today, Summer 2011]

Here are 10 resources about gaming and learning:

1. Aaron Dignan – Game Frame
2. Improving the Way We Design Games for Learning by Examining How Popular Video Games Teach – July 2011
3. A New Day for Corporate Learning – By A. J. Ripin – Training Magazine
4. My Marriott Hotel Opens its Doors on Facebook: Marriott Uses Social Media Gaming to Help Attract Tens of Thousands of Employees
5. If All of Work Were Gamified – By Saul Kaplan – Harvard Business Review Blog
6. The Gamification of Jihad – WNYC’s On the Media
7. Good Video Games and Good Learning – By James Paul Gee
   16 learning principles that good games, across a board spectrum of genres, incorporate
8. Gamification Wiki
9. Games for Learning Institute – New York University // Games for Change
10. DiGRA: The Digital Games Research Association

What resources on gaming and learning in organizations do YOU recommend?

I recently read this excellent article on crowdsourcing which explores ways in which the tool is expanding in different fields. Here are five of the best examples they came up with:

1. GrouperEye: This “survival of the fittest” project was started by and for college students looking for contract gigs. Businesses post a case on GrouperEye’s website and leave it open to students to solve. The company picks the best solution, and the student who came up with the idea is paid.
2. “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” Course: In the fall of 2009, Duke University professor Cathy Davidson started a new class called “This Is Your Brain on the Internet.” It introduces students to crowdsourcing by letting them accept some of the responsibility of running the class, including grading and teaching.
3. Crowdsourcing Help Desks: IT help desks are a necessary service on college campuses, as so many students depend on their computers and Internet access to complete their school work or even attend class online. At Indiana University at Bloomington, new IT help desks began implementing crowdsourcing to alleviate the cost and pressure of having to answer so many calls. Students and professors post their IT problems on an online forum, where other students and amateur IT experts answer them.
4. SOS Classroom: This program has helped sustain the Los Angeles Unified School District’s summer school system. USC students — along with teachers and parents — designed and collected online educational materials to teach K-8 language arts and math to summer school kids. Much of the program includes volunteers.
5. National IT database in the future: Notre Dame’s Chief Technology Officer Dewitt A. Latimer hopes to engineer a national IT database — powered by crowdsourcing — in the next few years. It would be based on the success of user-generated sites like Amazon.com and Wikipedia, and if the economy can get off the ground, the Hosted Integrated Knowledge Environment Project, or Hike, could become reality.

What ways can you think of to use crowdsourcing in human resources & corporate learning? Are you using crowdsourcing in your department? If yes, how? What implications can you see for it? Share your thoughts in the comments section!