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43 Great eLearning Posts and 5 Hot Topics Including Google Buzz and iPad

eLearning Learning Posts

Emotions And Learning: Part I - The eLearning Coach , February 21, 2010 I’ve never done a formal survey, but I’m going to guess that the majority of online courses don’t have a strong emotional impact on their audience. Or why not?

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In the Age of Networks, customers can vanish and knowledge workers cross the chasm in the blink of an eye. Supplement it with on-job learning, coaching, mentoring, apprenticeship, buddy systems, study groups, electronic libraries, and opportunities to try things out in the “real world.”. When does freezing water turn to ice?

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

For services outside the firewall, blockage continues to be an issue driven by such barriers as organizational culture, bandwidth limitations, security issues, IT resistance, and lack of resources. information/knowledge workers. Most learning professionals view social media as valuable to learners, and usage is growing.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Most of what we learn, we learn from other people — parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, playmates, cousins, Little Leaguers, Scouts, school chums, roommates, teammates, classmates, study groups, coaches, bosses, mentors, colleagues, gossips, co-workers, neighbors, and, eventually, our children.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn more than twice as much from experience as from bosses and coaches, and the training department accounts for less half of that. Workers are disgruntled. Training has such a bad reputation that executive coaches have been forced to change the words they use in conversation with senior managers.