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Aug 05

ASTD President Bingham Posts Intellectually Impoverished, Embarrasing Article on Learning Part II

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In Part I of this series we looked at the first part of Tony Bingham’s post on “Learning Socially” and pointed out that so far in the article, nothing the President of ASTD mentioned is relevant or telling regarding the need or movement towards “social learning. Let’s look further at Bingham’s article to see if there is any substance or valid data in it. We’ll continue with an attempt to deal with what has to be one of the silliest fad terms to hit the training world — informal learning.

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Aug 03

ASTD President Bingham Posts Intellectually Impoverished, Embarrasing Article on Learning Part I

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For many it will come as no surprise that the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) continues to come up with some downright stupid things. It’s a long standing issue within the training profession, and there are those that hate ASTD and question its function and actions, and those that appreciate ASTD. Mostly I’m neither. I used to be a member, but I’m not now, but for no particular reason.

Still I was surprised at the August, 2009 article posted by Bingham, current President of ASTD, about social learning. The surprise wasn’t so much with the content. After all, ASTD has jumped pretty heavily into the e-learning/informal learning/social learning marketplace, with several of its $695 a piece downloadable guides. What did surprise me was the intellectual weaknesses, and lack of substance in the Bingham article. We’d expect more from a leader of the leading training organization in the world. We’d expect at least some glimmer of intelligence and a little less rah rah cheerleading.

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