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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. What’s important is tacit knowledge, the know-how that’s taught by experience as opposed to the know-what that is written in books or a syllabus.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

This is especially true when the content is more about compliance than performance. My belief is that we'll hear a lot about it in 2011, but that by mid 2012 the focus will change to more actionable information related to doing. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

In complex and chaotic environments (where most knowledge workers reside) traditional training and development approaches that are carried out away from the context of the workplace have little or no impact. Training encourages compliance – Development emphasizes performance 13.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn more than twice as much from experience as from bosses and coaches, and the training department accounts for less half of that. Informal Survey of Importance of Sources of Learning, Centre for Learning Performance Technology, 2012. Workers learn their jobs in the course of doing their jobs.