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Internet Time Alliance Predictions for 2013

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The Principals of the Internet Time Alliance decided to take a collective look ahead to the new year, and share our predictions.

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2015 Top Tools for Learning

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25 years ago the Boston Consulting Group was predicting a future of virtually free telecommunications. That prediction came true much sooner than BCG thought it would. Skype : Skype offers the magic of essentially free multimedia global communication and learning.

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Workplace Learning: Adding, Embedding & Extracting

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Gartner predicts continued growth in mobile devices and there is no doubt their use as performance support tools (beyond the ubiquity of Google access) will increase. Electronic performance support systems (ePSS) help embed learning in work. Embedding learning in work can also be achieved without sophisticated technology.

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Re-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding

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New Opportunities On the positive side, the ‘extracting learning’ approach opens up a new area of opportunity for L&D – beyond the module, course and programme and into the daily workflow as a mechanism for effective development, increased performance and greater productivity.

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The Knowledge and Learning Transfer Problem

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Beyond schooling Work on hybrid learning environments (see Zitter and Hoeve, 2012 ) suggests that most of the work L&D departments carry out is still firmly grounded in school-based learning where ‘learning is central and organised in a formal curriculum or learning paths with predictable outcomes and a focus on explicit knowledge and generalised (..)

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The Driving Test: the canary in the mine for formal training?

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KPMG predicts huge growth in autonomous cars and an increase not just in general usage but also in the nature of use. The skills we needed in the past are no longer needed, or being replaced with the need for new sets of skills. According to KPMG auto industry experts, the driverless car is analogous to the smartphone.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

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Why continue carrying out annual training needs analysis trying to predict development requirements 12 months ahead when we and our key stakeholders know that things will change rapidly and the capabilities they need may well change on a monthly or quarterly basis as new projects come on-stream and others are mothballed?