On the Way to a New Learning Culture in Organizations: Giving up Traditional Models

Abstract

Today, living in a digital society as we do, technological innovation expands to all social domains (artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning). It is enough to take a look at the past to find out that we cannot longer avoid major changes. As technology evolves, society also does (Castell, 2005) and with it the work activity and related processes. It is complusory to make changes going with the digital innovation demanded by time.

Technology has enabled the emergence of new working practices (telework, robotics, etc.) that, at the same time, have led the various departments to reflect on their own work processes and their suitability. Organizations face the challenge of implementing this transformation with very heterogeneous workforces, mainly because the co-workers have very different levels of digital manipulation and therefore show very diverse resistance to change.

Technological implantation has enabled access to the knowledge from any device (mobile, tablet, PC), reconfiguring the model of traditional learning into an innovative, inclusive and digital model. In many contributions, it is proposed to rewrite the model of vocational training and to completely abandon the classical model (Acaso, 2013).