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Enterprise Mobile Learning 2011 - Year in Review

mLearning Trends

How On Target Were My 2011 Predictions? It’s time once again to take stock of what happened in enterprise mobile learning and see if any of my 2011 predictions hit their intended targets. If 2010 was the year of the pilot, 2011 will be the year of the deployment. Prediction #1 - mLearning Engagements Expand.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

In this report Gartner defines the main uses for these vendors’ social software tools, two of them being the following: “Empowering communities of experts and interested parties (bonding people by specific interests, capturing best practices, disseminating lead-user innovation and providing an informal support network).”

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”

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Four Ways User-Generated Content (UGC) Can Make its Way into.

Xyleme

Rather, it’s the delivery of this formal content that will change – in the form of less courseware and more guided delivery at the point-of-performance, with social media platforms providing a critical publishing channel. In this way, formal content is now supported and supplemented by an ecosystem of experts and related information.

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