Performance Learning Productivity

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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. CSCL was one of the hot pedagogical approaches of the day – when network-based learning was in its relative infancy. Learning takes place in our heads. Learning is a highly contextual activity.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

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These turbulent economic times have not been kind to two of the large publishers of catalogues and journals - Reader's Digest and Learning Tree International. Learning Tree has been around since 1974. Learning Tree International's Approach Learning Tree International recently published its F3Q09 earnings. million ($1.5

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Heading towards high performance

Performance Learning Productivity

In this post, Totara Learning's Chief Commercial Officer Lars Hyland speaks to Charles Jennings. Charles is a co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute , as well as a leading thinker and practitioner in learning, development and performance”. We are able to provide rich learning opportunities to lots of people located anywhere.” “I’m

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

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or joined something like photo.net and read the annual buyers guide, joined a forum or community and asked one of the tens of thousands of experts for their freely-given advice? The answer is that I will only know that through developing a level of trust in my sources of information and learning. The other agreed. I think not.

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The Only Person Who Behaves Sensibly Is My Tailor

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Despite, or possibly because of, his own irregular early education he focused on learning as an important activity in life. Shaw and Work-Based Learning I recently came across Shaw’s quote about sensibility and his tailor again in Joseph Raelin’s book ‘ Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace ’.

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

Performance Learning Productivity

Many other organisations have rebuilt their customer service models to encourage user communities to share knowledge about problems, issues and workarounds as they have found the 'wisdom of the crowds' better serves customers than a small, over-burdened customer help line. That's a difficult pill for many L&D people to swallow.

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

Deterministic views of the world assume everything is a jigsaw puzzle rather then a chess game and that for every problem there is a single solution. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with seeing how other organisations achieve their results and trying to learn from them. Nothing else can happen. What’s wrong with that, then?”

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