Performance Learning Productivity

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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

Donald Taylor recently published an article titled ‘ What does ‘LMS’ mean today ?’. Learning can only be managed by the individual in whose head the learning is occurring. They won’t look like the learning management systems installed in the vast majority of organisations across the world today.

PKM 210
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The Need to Adapt to the Speed of Change or Die: lessons for L&D from the retail industry

Performance Learning Productivity

Equally, I asked myself, why would people prefer to get information and learn through the intermediation of their L&D department if they can do so faster and easier from other practitioners and colleagues, or people in their network who may or may not work in the same team, company or country as them? I think not.

Lesson 204
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Heading towards high performance

Performance Learning Productivity

We are able to provide rich learning opportunities to lots of people located anywhere.” “I’m The traditional L&D infrastructure came out of HR/IS requirements for digital record keeping, and the first learning management systems were essentially extensions of these HR systems. In today’s world we can have both.

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Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises

Performance Learning Productivity

I just think that she has got it wrong in this piece as to what real learning is and the role that LMS and ‘social learning’ have to play in the mix of building workforce capability and effectiveness in organisations. We shouldn’t confuse what L&D/Training departments spend a lot of their time on with real learning.

Exercise 199
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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

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It seems that Reader's Digest hasn't come to terms with the way that people get their information, and their laughs, these days. Learning Tree International's Approach Learning Tree International recently published its F3Q09 earnings. So it's no surprise really.

ILT 174