Millennials Are Not Alone
Discourse this week with my mentor might be changing my dissertation slightly. I’ve been laser focused on Millennials because I feel this is a big concern in the learning and performance industry. This has been supported by recent traffic and comments on the Doc Blog.
My mentor and I discussed the possibility to broaden the discussion about generations prior to Millennials. Her advice was that whatever the Millennial population workforce count, they are not alone in the workplace. Her discussion continued to say that businesses are not likely to adopt new processes unless the processes can be applied to everyone.
This is something that seems so obvious to me but I still missed in my own thought process.
Taking this into advisement, and still wanting to know the impact on Millennials, I responded with an idea to broaden the topic to be ‘Constructivist Learning and Worker Performance using Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts in Workplace Training’. The research questions would include inquiries about the impact on different generations.
Is this a more important problem? Is this change more in line with industry concerns?
I think it might be but what do you think?
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Mike,
Great work on the lit review…Interestingly, I spent the last three months doing an almost identical, but much smaller lit review on the very same subject as part of my Master’s in Educational Technology at the University of British Columbia. Though yours is much more thorough, our findings are similar… just not enough research into workplace application of Web 2.0 tools… Here are a few limited studies, mostly peripherally looking at workplace learning….
Here are the most relevant papers, they may interest you….
Jacovi et al. (2005) – Use of blogs in classroom learning at IBM.
Efimova, L. and Grudin, Jonathan. (2007) – Blogging within Microsoft.
Majchrzak, A. et al. (2006) – Wiki implementations in multiple organizations.
Edwards, P. (2007) – Phenomenal MBA dissertation on Wiki implementations and organizational learning.
Evans, V. & Larri, L. (2006). – Great lit review re Web 2.0 technologies from Australia.
Would be happy to share my paper if you are interested….
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Leszek,
Thanks for coming by the Doc Blog. Interesting how 2 people can conduct the same literature review and come up with the same type of outcome.
I appreciate the additional resources, I’ve read a few of them and will be getting the others to add to my collection.
What is your thesis project at University of BC?
Mike
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