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Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO

Jane Hart

Some who have begun to introduce social approaches into the organisation, still think it is about measuring quantity ; i.e. tracking the number of active participants and posts and comments people are making. So how then do we measure learning in the workplace? Social activity. Social Learning) Management System.

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

To strike a work-life balance, work from home as much as possible (most of the time). This taught me a few things about work, technology and myself. Technology —is great for exchange of information, updates and other transactional stuff. Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration.

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Seed, feed, & weed

Clark Quinn

In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’ through every stage of knowledge work.

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Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

There has been a lot of talk about formal vs. informal learning in the educational blogosphere and when it comes right down to it, formal learning is the most effective. The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. Here's why. The training is all formalized.

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Future of the training department

Clark Quinn

Things are moving faster, and this has all sorts of consequences: it means that change is occurring more frequently, information is doubling, our competition is more aggressive, and more. Who is responsible for ensuring this works? In some organizations it’s the information services group, or the knowledge management group.

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10

Jay Cross

Post 1 People learn their jobs by doing their jobs. Knowledge work has evolved into keeping up and taking advantage of connections. We learn to do the job on the job. To stay ahead and create more value, you have to learn faster, better, smarter. Post 2 The 70 percent: learning from experience.

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A new model for training

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Workers at the the bottom of the traditional organizational pyramid are those who interact closest with their environment (market, customers, information). To be effective today they need to be constantly probing and trying out better ways of work. Each one-teach-one is at the heart of invent-as-you-go learning.