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Those who forget the mistakes of history

Jay Cross

Steve Wheeler’s excellent post on Learning Technologies in London described the vendors at the show as stuck in a time warp, maybe on another planet. Most of them touted the savings from forcing people to learn on their own time. …are condemned to repeat them, said philosopher George Santyana.

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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

This is for a few key reasons: the ability to deeply integrate and embed learning into workplace software such as IBM Connections, SAP Jam, Jive-n and Yammer; the need to ensure complete data integrity and security; and the need for a great user experience around learning content delivery, management and reporting.

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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

This is for a few key reasons: the ability to deeply integrate and embed learning into workplace software such as IBM Connections, SAP Jam, Jive-n and Yammer; the need to ensure complete data integrity and security; and the need for a great user experience around learning content delivery, management and reporting.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Home > Learning Technologies , Social Learning > Is There a Better Way to Social Learning? Is There a Better Way to Social Learning? While there are countless articles about the future of the LMS, it was arguably George’s blog post titled Future of learning: LMS or SNS ? Learn more about Dawn here.

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Four Ways User-Generated Content (UGC) Can Make its Way into.

Xyleme

(Note on this post: “Subject matter network” is a term I picked up from Harold Jarche when I commented on his Social learning in the enterprise post; also, the points I make regarding SMN are based on quotes from leading Social Business Software vendor, Jive Software. Learn more about Dawn here. Follow @dawnpoulos on Twitter.

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

Social learning is bi-directional and user-generated content and feedback can be a valuable asset for instructional designers to develop more compelling and timely learning, whether that learning is published to a formal course, a non-formal podcast, or an informal blog. Learn more about Dawn here.