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Smart Companies Support Informal Learning

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“It’s critical that training and development professionals not go overboard with command and control when they support informal learning. And since informal learning makes up the bulk of learning inside organizations, this could be a truly perilous move.” ~ Patti Shank, Director of Research at The eLearning Guild.

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The best elearning reads of 2013

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It’s the end of an era – enter the knowledgeable networker , John Kotter, Forbes. Cognitive Dissonance and the Denial of Social/Informal Learning , Mike Britz. Conferences Need To Focus More On Learning Design And Less On Information Transfer , Jeff Hurt. Why Learning is Complicated , Dennis Callahan.

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Using Facebook as a learning platform

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Facebook makes it easy to network and interact with other virtual students, and because most people know how to use Facebook they don’t need to become familiar with a new platform. Some participants benefited from the use of Facebook by joining support groups and exploring information relevant to their studies. Mazer, Richard E.

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eFrontPro For IBM Connections

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One of the recent innovations in the training industry has come through the use of social technologies to support informal learning: organizations have experimented with Twitter, in particular, to increase employee awareness of when and where eLearning content is available for them. For further information just contact us.

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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

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My role at eFront is to lead the business development of the eFrontPro Learning Management platform throughout the global corporate marketplace. eFrontPro is a unique platform because it addresses formal and informal learning needs in an Enterprise Deployment Model (Private Cloud).

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Meet the Team Part 3: Simon Birt, VP of Global Business Development

eFront

My role at eFront is to lead the business development of the eFrontPro Learning Management platform throughout the global corporate marketplace. eFrontPro is a unique platform because it addresses formal and informal learning needs in an Enterprise Deployment Model (Private Cloud).

Global 40