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Integrating Social Learning in the Workplace

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I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix.

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning - Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

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I have been writing about MOOCs in the context of workplace learning from different perspectives for some time now. MOOCs, unlike typical on-line courses hosted on corporate LMS''s operate on very different principles. A MOOC is an intrinsically participative, collaborative mode of learning. The earlier posts.

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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

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MOOCs have taken the world of higher ed and corporate learning by the proverbial storm. When George Siemens , Dave Cormier and Stephen Downes came up with the concept in 2008, they had a vision of how a “learning design” based on Connectivism could change the face of learning and collaboration. Into this space enters MOOCs!

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SkillSoft's inGenius: About adding meaningful context.

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This social learning layer will integrate with SkillSoft's Book 24X7, a vast repository of technical and IT-related literature that many organizations use as off-the-shelf content to enable their employees. John Ambrose in his post Social Learning Will Fill Enterprise 2.0’s

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Is it important to know instructional design to create SCORM compliant courses?

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The set of questions below were raised by a friend that triggered of the post that follows: If SCORM is a technical specification, does it interest, content providers, Instruction Designers, Project Managers ? Content providers will quickly see how SCORM helps implement reusable learning objects.

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Harvard ManageMentor: Some thoughts in response.

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Preamble Yesterday, I received a note from Harvard Business Publishing with a request to review their article, Our Take on Social Learning Tools. Learning mix in the workplace Harvard Business Publishing is releasing the next version of Harvard ManageMentor , their "online resource for business essentials".

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Instructional Design in the VUCA World

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In my last post, I took a macro-view of the changing landscape of work and learning. The roles need to be revisited and explored keeping in mind the shifting paradigms, their impact on workplace learning, and the place of L&D in the organization. L&D team''s work has become more complex and challenging.