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At The Water Cooler of Learning

Marcia Conner

Learning makes brains physically bigger. And the competitive advantage of smarter in a Darwinian business ecosystem eventually leads to more profits. moment that signals the brain has connected the dots, is an absolutely wondrous and amazing mystery. Most real learning—the kind that sticks to the walls of the brain—is informal.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

e Commerce, which was mainly about buying things online, was morphing into e Business, which involved doing things online. Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. Elliott told me he first heard it at IBM. E-mail was becoming e mail. E-loan announced e-track. e + learning.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

e Commerce, which was mainly about buying things online, was morphing into e Business, which involved doing things online. Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. Elliott told me he first heard it at IBM. We ended up with eKnowledge on our business cards. e + learning.

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Origins of “eLearning”

Jay Cross

e Commerce, which was mainly about buying things online, was morphing into e Business, which involved doing things online. Learning is whatever gets past their personal firewalls (AKA skulls) and lodges in the brain. Elliott told me he first heard it at IBM. We ended up with eKnowledge on our business cards. e + learning.

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Are You Riding the Waves or the Ripples? Tracking Learning Trends

Vignettes Learning

Synthesis: The Thought/Action Wave and the Brain/Technology Wave are two particular learning principles that enable faster, cheaper and easier learning. Click here for larger view Strong Waves There are two strong waves that I pay attention to: the Thought/Action Wave and the Brain/Technology Wave. The wave is powerful. It persists.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Are you being fooled by claims of brain-based learning? PLEASE Don’t Blog or Tweet - Engaged Learning , June 30, 2010 Can you ever imagine these situations in a business setting? We know for sure that: Exercise boosts brain power. SCRM Social Business Design social CRM. Fraught Decisions. Degree of Difficulty.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

This paper addresses how organizations, particularly business organizations, can get more done. Situating our brains in our heads oversimplifies the situation; our brains are distributed throughout our bodies. IBM white paper by Rob Cross. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Execution is the goal. And emotion? By Marcia L.