Learning innovation: When the classroom won't cut it

Building skills and harnessing talent are as critical, if not more so, in tough economic times but organisations will have to think innovatively if they are to build the skills necessary to thrive and survive. Recent figures from Lifelong Learning UK revealed that half of all office workers felt they would waste less time at work if they had better knowledge of technology.

According to the CBI, one of the biggest challenges for business over the next ten years will be how to build, retain and make the most of knowledge and experience in the workforce while finances for training are increasingly restricted.

We have to face up to the fact that the classroom, as the only focus for acquiring skills, no longer cuts it with the learner in the workplace for a number of reasons. In fact, technology has an important role to play in ensuring that the availability of workplace learning becomes more flexible.