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The Future of Learning

Insights and Innovations from Executive Development

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Shirine Voller

    1. Ashridge Business School, England

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  2. Eddie Blass

    1. University of Hertfordshire, England

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  3. Vicki Culpin

    1. Ashridge Business School, England

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Future Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Future Learning: Section Editorial

      • Shirine Voller
      Pages 49-52

    3. When the Classroom is No Longer a Room

      • Ronan Gruenbaum
      Pages 53-71

    4. Virtual Action Learning: A New Genre for Powerful Learning

      • Ghislaine Caulat
      Pages 72-87

    5. Virtual Action Learning – A New Frontier?

      • Mollie Dickenson, Mike Pedle, John Burgoyne
      Pages 88-105

    6. Generation Y and Learning: A Changing World

      • Carina Paine Schofield, Sue Honoré
      Pages 106-123

  4. Future Learner

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Future Learner: Section Editorial

      • Eddie Blass
      Pages 127-130

    3. Re-cognising Learning and Teaching: Opening the Space of Possibility

      • Chris Breen
      Pages 131-149

    4. Place-making: The Executive’s Role in Aligning Learning with Work

      • Tom Short, Susan Coggan
      Pages 150-164

    5. ‘An informed slowness’ – Curiosity as an Enabler of Learning in the Attention Economy

      • Elaine Rumboll, Dave Duarte
      Pages 165-177

    6. Concluding Thoughts

      • Shirine Voller, Eddie Blass, Vicki Culpin
      Pages 178-178

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 179-184
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About this book

Based on research-informed 'future-scoping' and emerging practice in the field of executive education this bookis split into three parts: Future Context, Future Learning and Future Learners. With a short editorial introducing each part, it will appeal to anyone working in the field of adult and higher education and training.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ashridge Business School, England

    Shirine Voller, Vicki Culpin

  • University of Hertfordshire, England

    Eddie Blass

About the editors

SHIRINE VOLLER holds an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, UK, and is in the process of completing a Masters by Research at Cranfield University. She has worked in primary education, organisation consulting and grant management and is currently Research Manager at Ashridge Business School.
 
EDDIE BLASS started her academic career lecturing in HRM after a period of time training in industry. She completed her Doctorate at Durham on 'The Future University' and combines her research interests in adult learning, HE and leadership development in her current job role at the University of Hertfordshire in the School of Education.
 
VICKI CULPIN studied Psychology at Manchester University, UK, followed by an MPhil and PhD in Psychology from Lancaster University and an MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology from Leicester University. She spent nine years working in academia before moving to Ashridge Business School where she is currently Research Director.

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