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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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Profile of a learning architect: Charles Jennings

Clive on Learning

Where there is maximum collaboration among learners and where employees can easily capture and publish best practices, then the community as a whole can re-use and leverage its intellectual capital.” As Charles explains, “We learn through experience, through conversations, through practice and through reflection.

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At The Water Cooler of Learning

Marcia Conner

We need to understand that the informal side of the equation requires real people in real time: mentors, coaches, masters, guides, power users, subject-matter experts, communities of practice. If we want to become smarter companies, we need to encourage informal learning. David has an MS in communications from Boston University.