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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

To stay relevant, George believes training vendors should do two things: Stop talking “learning” and start talking “capacity” and “execution” like the rest of the C-suite. Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning.

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Four Ways User-Generated Content (UGC) Can Make its Way into.

Xyleme

As always, Jane combines a wealth of information with some remarkable insights on where organizational learning is (or should be) headed. One thing that has always been of great interest to me is what I’ll refer to as the integration of social and formal learning content. This is a great article and thanks for sharing.

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”