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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

Andersen Consulting, IBM, and Goldman Sachs pay attention to so called “ offboarding ” as well as onboarding. Mentors and coaches give assignments that provide new challenges and therefore require learning. Conversation is the most important learning technology ever invented. It must be easy to access and understand.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

David Wilkins in Learning 2.0 If the learning organization doesn’t get into that 70 percent and use social media, they’re going to get left behind. It’s a call to action for learning to become really involved in social media in order to facilitate and enable informal learning.

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The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business

Jane Hart

Although a “social business” is powered by new social technologies, it is not the technology itself that makes the difference, it’s not about layering social approaches on the old industrial age thinking, but a fresh, new mindset and approach to working and learning. IBM describes it succinctly. “A e-learning/ OJT.

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First Time Visitor Guide

Tony Karrer

My background includes things like being the CTO of eHarmony (online marriage matching based on personality profiles and controlled communication) from its launch through their $110M venture round to working on interesting eLearning and tools for companies like Lexus, HP, IBM, etc. Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0

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Come Together

Jay Cross

The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. The problem? The goal is to create constant teaching moments.

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At The Water Cooler of Learning

Marcia Conner

It involves memory, synapses, endorphins, and encoding, and, more often than not, those accidental and serendipitous moments we call informal learning. Most real learning—the kind that sticks to the walls of the brain—is informal. Informal learning is what goes on around our formal learning process.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Learning content will be transformed for easier consumption. Success metrics for learning will be based on content access, views, involvement and downloads. Learning leaders will be more focused on relevancy of information. Here are my top 10 eLearning predictions for 2011.