Replying to At de Lange in LO28735 --
Earlier, I asked:
> >What is "collective learning"? Many people learning the
> >same thing? Many people learning different things from
> >the same experience? The learning of some kind of collective
> >consciousness? Could you please say what you mean by
> >"collective learning"?
At responds:
>I mean with it that people learn from each other
>while learning from the same or a similar event. They can learn together
>in person from the same event or in proxy by repeating the event and then
>communicate their findings to each other. They need not to learn the same
>topic in the event. Even should they learn the same topic, they need not
>to arrive at exactly the same knowledge.
Believe it or not, that definition/explanation gives me absolutely no
pause. It's a perfectly good description/definition of organizational
learning as well and clearly avoids the anthropomorphizing issue.
Thanks, At.
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Fred Nickols
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