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eLearning Predictions Further Thoughts

Tony Karrer

My belief is that we are going to see lots of virtual communities created as it makes sense to aggregate outside of a local geography for common interests. People end up staying home to be able to attend virtual events. I expected it to be about how to use twitter as a knowledge worker. virtual world, WebEx type product.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

How successful do you think you have been in transforming your clients’ brands around the world? However, my feeling is that these sorts of reports emanating from the USA don’t appreciate the difference between the USA and the rest of the world and, so, are over-optimistic about levels of demand outside the USA. Virtual classrooms.

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

eLearning Learning Posts

E-Learning along the curve: adapting to knowledge workers learning needs - The E-Learning Curve , February 18, 2010 Formally-structured approaches to learning are best deployed to novices in the relevant discipline or skill area. With virtual worlds, we can expand the use of storytelling. So, what is it? Enterprise 2.0

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In this topsy-turvy world, few things are predictable. %&#* happens. The result is “blur,” a chaotic world moving so fast that it’s impossible to focus. It’s a nonlinear world. In the Age of Networks, customers can vanish and knowledge workers cross the chasm in the blink of an eye. Clocks run faster.

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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. 3D Virtual Spaces for Learning And Collaboration.” Volume 3: Virtual Worlds.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

After all, they already have discussion boards and virtual classrooms and videoconference gear. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. The organization establishes the goals and gives the workers flexibility in how to meet them. Try things.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The world around corporate training has changed. What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. People at the big events are talking about informal learning, social learning, simulations, webinars, mobile, virtual classrooms, community, interactivity, and web 2.0.