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e-Learning: In Search of a Better Definition

Big Dog, Little Dog

One of the first definitions for e-learning is ASTD's , who define it as covering a wide set of applications and processes, such as Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms, and digital collaboration. In other words, e-learning does everything in the corporate world but training!

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Reflections from Adaptive Paths UX Week 2007

Mark Oehlert

How would you feel if the ratings for a session you presented say at ASTD or the eLearning Guild were instantly available for public consumption? I really thought that Andrew Hintons presentation on the idea of user experience as Communities of Practice was excellent. Total transparency. That was a quote from the opening day.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

To create intellectual capital it can use, a company needs to foster teamwork, communities of practice, and other social forms of learning. In sum, communities are much more than a way to make up for knowledge deficiencies of some individuals. Support participation in professional Communities of Practice.