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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d. Properly d.

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Class is over; now what? Informal learning in the workplace

Obsidian Learning

When you’re designing learning, don’t overlook the importance of informal learning. This is learning that takes place outside of the classroom or the eLearning activity. It could be knowledge gained from reading, Web searching, or from colleagues and friends. Build a Learning Culture. Pershing (Ed.),

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Knowledge Management Core Issues

Tony Karrer

Great post by Denham Grey - Perennial KM issues that are very similar to the core problems that we deal with in eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. With an ever deceasing half-life of knowledge , just keeping up has become a major corporate imperative.

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27 Books for L&D Folks.

ID Reflections

1 Instructional Design Multimedia Learning Richard Mayer. 2 Workplace Learning The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge. 3 Workplace Learning Informal learning Jay Cross. 4 Workplace learning The Working Smarter Fieldbook Jay Cross. 5 Workplace Learning/Training Social Media for Trainers Jane Bozarth.

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Official description: The Immernet Singularity: How the Immersive Internet Will Redefine Learning and Collaboration. Four technology arenas, 2D Synchronous Learning, Knowledge Sharing Spaces, Web 2.0 We focus on formal learning & productivity but ignore informal learning and performance.

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Informal Learning - Harold Tells Us Where To Put It - Now What

Tony Karrer

Great post by Harold Jarche - Informal Learning and Performance Technology responding to my post - Informal Learning - Let's Get Real. Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g., Performance Interventions ** Learning Interventions Instructional Interventions (e.g.,

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Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives. Chief learning officers (CLO s) are dealing with organizations the same way they did 25 years ago—focusing on full-time employees. Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, By Rex Davenport.

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