Performance Learning Productivity

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The Knowledge and Learning Transfer Problem

Performance Learning Productivity

National Library of Australia. 1998), “On Two Metaphors for Learning and the Dangers of Choosing just One”. Educational Researcher, 27(2), 4–13. Photographs: Milk carrier Fredrick (Fred) Jones delivers full milk cans, Drouin, Victoria, Australia. Wikimedia Commons Pancakes and Cream cake.

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2016 Top Tools for Learning

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I can recall spending weeks in university library stacks searching abstracts and then needing to decide whether to pay the money to photocopy the papers and possibly also have them translated. It also contains enough guitar and banjo instruction lessons to last several lifetimes.

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

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Google Scholar provides the library index and stack we could only dream about 40 years ago. Then that’s the day gone as I sift through relevant papers and find myself ordering books and diving off in all directions, reading and learning as I go. LinkedIn does that job well.

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The Power of X – Experiential Learning in Today’s World

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The 21 st Century experiential learning view is that the place to store vast amounts of information and knowledge is in libraries, not in heads, and that now and in the future these libraries will be increasingly virtual, easy to access, and usually available at the click of a mouse or the touch of a screen.

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

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And we wondered why the generic eLearning library was under-used! I recall using one enterprise LMS that required 13 clicks of a mouse (some counter-intuitive) to register and launch an eLearning module. The point is that people need to work at speed, and anything that gets in the way will be bypassed or ignored.

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performance.learning.productivity: Getting to the Core of Learning Content in the Internet Age

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Those of us who spent weeks and months shuffling academic library index cards in the past will understand how liberating the use of metadata has been. As we develop these third order find skills the misplaced need for vast amounts of content in structured learning will fall away.

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The Future Business of Learning for Suppliers

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The latter were a better fit for our learning strategy and offered far more value in terms of impact and ‘bang-for-buck’ than 3, 4 and 5-day stand-alone courses.

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