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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Jay Cross

Ask net-savvy younger workers how they would like to learn new skills, and they bring up the features they enjoy outside of work: A personal profile so I can share information with my connections. Activity streams, like Twitter, so I know what’s going on and what people are talking about. Others are not. That word is stupid.

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Peeragogy

Jay Cross

Esteemed co-learners, your job is to create new co-learning communities. If a group doesn’t exist for facilitate your informal learning, make one. Peeragogy is a set of techniques for collaborative learning and work. Help me learn from a community of kindred spirits, like SlashDot, Reddit, and MetaFilter.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Noted main difference between main stream media and social media. Where we are today: Primary forms of social learning technologies used in corporations today appear to be e-mail, live online learning (Web conferencing), threaded discussion, and collaborative content development. As part of a learning plan.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The Collaborative Organization 12. Collaborative Culture 15. Collaborative Motivation 16. Collaborative Infrastructure 17. Collaborative Learning 18. This analogy is evocative of HR departments that think formal learning courses and workshops are the way to achieve learning and development success.