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Part 4: Linked Enablement

CLO Magazine

According to Chris Tratar, senior director of product marketing at Saba, early adopters tend to have heavy focuses on knowledge worker industries, which include consulting, tech companies and any organization with a robust research and design process. Create a new generation of learning management systems. This is not uncommon.

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Research Shows Companies Should Encourage Social Learning

TOPYX LMS

Employees Learn Best When They Learn Informally. Informal learning is the polar opposite of formal learning. In the article What Is Informal Learning? , Jay Cross explained, “ Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way most people learn to do their jobs.

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Learning Goes Social

CLO Magazine

Formal Versus Informal: Room to Coexist Organizations today are recognizing the business value of social learning — the use of various social media and collaboration technologies to facilitate learning — to, in many cases, drive informal learning, though it can be used to drive formal learning as well.

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Profile of a learning architect: Tiina Paju-Pomfret

Clive on Learning

In this next profile, extracted from The New Learning Architect , we see another fine example of how a learning and development department has been able to break free from the confines of the face-to-face course to provide support for learning across multiple contexts.

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Free L&D webinars for May 2020

Limestone Learning

Friday, May 1, 2020, 9AM – 10AM PT: You Can’t Beat ’Em, So Join ’Em — Training’s Role in Informal Learning Many of us obtain the knowledge and data we require to complete our work by using the Internet. This informal learning trend is unlikely to change soon, so training professionals need to find a way to address it.

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Totara: re-shaping Moodle for corporate use

Clive on Learning

Last week I asked Can the ‘big LMS’ break clear of formal training? - I wanted to know whether Saba, one of the most successful of the big LMSs, could reinvent itself to accommodate informal learning.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Learning Analytics 6. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning. Flash will still have an impact (at least in the area of mobile learning). 10 Predictions for 2011: Trends that Will Reshape the Training Industry Total spending for training services will increase by an estimated 7-9%.