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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Communities of Practice Facebook as a Learning Platform We Need a Degree in Instructional Design Learning styles don't exist 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments How long does it take to create learning?

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PDR Design Model Supports Shift to Learning Design in the Work Context

Living in Learning

If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. Harvesting (moderating) actually becomes a job role when social media is utilized and communities of practice begin to blossom. We have to point to more than learning activity to justify our existence and worthiness of budget dollars.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

tools into their practices. Budgeting for Learning 2.0: As I’ve repeatedly stated, formal classroom sessions are important, but they don’t have to be the only thing offered to the employee base, and they don’t have to exhaust the entire budget. I have to tell you it is the BEST project!

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

Best practice exists only in simple working environments. Good practice (multiple good ways of achieving outcomes) exists in complicated working environments. As such, Cynefin questions much of traditional management training and development. Clark’s diagram here gives a clear view.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Given today’s job mobility, workers who delegate responsibility for learning to their employers will become perpetual novices. In spite of this, corporations, non-profits, and government invest most of their budgets in formal learning, when it’s apparent that most learning is informal. How workers learn now.