Learning Warehouse LO20903

Vana Prewitt (vprewitt@bellsouth.net)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:57:36 -0500

Replying to LO20892 --

gervis@lycosmail.com wrote:

> In an assignment to bring together some of the better resources on Human
> Resource Development, Performance Technology, Learning Organizations and
> Knowledge Management the term Learning Warehouse was used.

This is the first I've heard of the term "Learning Warehouse." The
connotation is not very attractive from a U.S. perspective, I think. A
warehouse is a place where surplus is stored. It is not usually a place
where you keep something that is used often or needs to be accessed
quickly. It also has an industrial and assembly-line imagae, which runs
against the grain of a service delivery model.

I would be interested in knowing where this term was coined, who uses it,
and in what organizational contexts.

kind regards,

Vana Prewitt
Praxis Learning Systems
www.PraxisLearning.org

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