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BIG DATA, GOOD INFORMATION & A WAY FOR YOU TO USE IT

Wonderful Brain

The first is about big data, the phenomenon that now makes available enormous, staggering, volumes of information almost instantaneously. The second is a condition that says information already known to us can limit how big data can be used because there are other types of knowing to expand thinking. So the era of big data is here.

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

ID Reflections

Learning Gets Social by Tony Bingham: Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems explains the huge opportunity the profession has in informal learning: “One of the things that has happened is that we have focused so much on the 10 percent [formal learning] that we abdicated the 70 percent [informal learning].

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Learning to the Rescue: The FDIC’s Thom Terwilliger

CLO Magazine

from 2002 to 2007. For instance, as mortgage rules have changed, the agency designed informal videos to keep employees up to date. These profiles will include customized information about how each employee learns. Moving forward, he said the FDIC’s corporate university is preparing for the next crisis.

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The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs

eFront

Learning Circuits Blog The LC Blog is a community feature that Learning Circuits launched in 2002. e-Learning Post by Maish R Nichani The goal of this blog is to explore news, views and stories around corporate learning, community building, instructional design, knowledge management and more. November 22, 2010 3:26 PM Jeff said.

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How to Become a Learning Organization (An Interview with Michelle Ockers)

Convergence Training

She’s a great source of information and I think you’ll really enjoy this. But they didn’t invent it–Amy Edmonson came up with it (see Edmonson’s book The Fearless Organization ), and she identified it, I think, in 2002, looking at cultures in a hospital system. And with that, let me say hello to Michelle.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The Information Era has arrived. Machine-age managers complained when employees had downtime because they were in training. In the information age, innovation is the competitive advantage. That bears repeating: In the Information Age, learning is the business. Abundant information obsoletes the concept of rank.