Performance Learning Productivity

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Less is more: A different approach to L&D in a world awash with information

Performance Learning Productivity

Charles Jennings argues that the adage 'access to knowledge is power' is more fitting in today's information-swamped world. Information overload is more serious than ever." Social data Social data is information produced by anyone. I’ve re-posted it here for people who don’t choose to register on the TZ website.

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It’s Only 65% !

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The term ‘informal training’ for example is meaningless. Whereas the term ‘informal learning’ as Jay Cross describes it, is extremely meaningful: “. Informal learning is like riding a bicycle: the rider chooses the destination and the route. " Jay wrote the seminal book on Informal Learning. Most isn’t.

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Will the App Become the New Classroom?

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(this article first appeared in the Spring 2016 Edition of Training Industry Quarterly) Classroom education emerged in a world of information paucity. We now live in a world of information abundance. Technology offers huge opportunities for social learning, peer feedback, and access to information at the point of need.

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Building a Culture of Continuous Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

In other words, we need to plan and work not only at building individual capability, but also team and collaborative and co-operative capabilities. How can I go about finding the best sources of information to help me? The 52 Weeks program initially started as a way to communicate company culture and values to new employees.

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The Knowledge and Learning Transfer Problem

Performance Learning Productivity

I’d used the phrase ‘learning delivery’ when describing computer-supported collaborative learning ( CSCL ) approaches. We transfer information. We can share information in the form of data and our own insights. During a meeting at Cambridge University around 30 years ago I was thoroughly chastised by a Cambridge academic.

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Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013

Performance Learning Productivity

Clark Quinn We’ll see an increasing use of mobile, and some organizations will recognize the platform that such devices provide to move the full suite of learning support (specifically performance support and informal learning) out to employees, dissolving the arbitrary boundaries between training and the full spectrum of possibilities.

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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

Performance Learning Productivity

Equally, I asked myself, why would people prefer to get information and learn through the intermediation of their L&D department if they can do so faster and easier from other practitioners and colleagues, or people in their network who may or may not work in the same team, company or country as them? I think not.

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