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From Instructional Design to Enterprise Community Facilitation

ID Reflections

An instructional designer by profession who started her career anlayzing learner needs, creating micro-design documents, writing story-boards and discussing the nitty-gritty of course navigation with visual designers, I have long been interested in the power of social, collaborative and informal learning.

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Informal Learning Part 2 from Jay Cross: Informal learning is like a bicycle ride

ID Reflections

I can change my own direction, go where I want, stop when I want to and take a break. Tags: corporate training communities of practice collaborative learning social learning informal learning. This is great for novice learners. Informal learnign, on the other hand, is like a solo bicycle ride.

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Re-imagining Work & Learning in a Networked World

ID Reflections

"The nature of work is changing. People’s relationship with work is changing. The changes to society will be vast" by @gapingvoid We are on the eve of 2015! I thought I''d do the same from an L&D and workplace learning perspective. Some of the principle drivers and needs around collaboration are given below.

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Learning organization

Ed App

It’s imperative for any enterprise to consider how its members can continue to learn. Without this skill, an organization is destined to fall behind as it can’t keep up with the changing world around it. So how can a company keep its employees up-to-date with all the learning and information they need to know? Innovation.

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The future of e-Learning, according to Kasper Spiro | Change to learn

Challenge to Learn

We now have tools like Moodle (a virtual learning environment), they add extra dimensions to e-Learning. Therefore, it is about collaborative learning. It offers learners facilities like a forum, blogs and wiki’s to share knowledge and to experience the learning process together. It is just a change of medium.

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Value of Investment (VOI) vs. Return on Investment

Kapp Notes

As the competitive landscape of higher education shifts and the training industry changes, using a measurement like Return On Investment (ROI) as the only guide for evaluating information technology investments like an LMS or an audience response system is a mistake. References. [1] 1] Norris, D.

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Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009

Tony Karrer

E-learning outside the training box with Nancy White and John Smith Once you've mastered enough of the new social media tools, training and development professionals are figuring out that technologies can change the boundaries around training itself, just as they can interrupt organizational boundaries.