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eLearning Predictions Further Thoughts

Tony Karrer

Social Learning Communities It was interesting that ASTD DC / Todd Slater has created a Ning community. I expected it to be about how to use twitter as a knowledge worker. Google Wave as a Mashup? I must look into Google Wave as the basis for social interaction that goes along with a course.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) reports that companies spend $1,067 per employee (2.7% ASTD measures only formal training, the workshops, classes, and assignments meted out by training departments. That accounts for a mere 5%-10% of the way workers learn their jobs. Google search for web resources.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. The organization establishes the goals and gives the workers flexibility in how to meet them. How workers learn now. Think about a go-getter knowledge worker learns something new. [6]