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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

More effective, sustainable learning occurs in the normal course of doing the work. This informal learning is facilitated by coaching, mentoring, communities-of-practice, experiments, action-learning and any of a myriad of other methods including the various forms of social media.

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Industry Report: Too Much Training; Not Enough Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Organizations might be increasing their investment in “pull” learning through social media, on-the-job training, and action learning. However, we don’t hear about these learning interventions because they don’t fit the more easily observed and measured formal methods.

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Becoming a Learning Culture: Competing in an Age of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

Social media allows restaurants, hotels, airlines, and travel services to market directly to us based on our personal interests. In a training culture, most important learning happens in events, such as workshops, courses, elearning programs, and conferences. Learning is just-in-time, on-demand.

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Roleplay – people (usually two or three) acting out roles to learn about themselves and others by putting themselves in somebody else’s shoes. Reflection-in-actionlearning from reflecting on an activity while doing it. Reflection-on-actionlearning from reflecting on an activity by looking back on what happened.

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The Essential Guide to Learning Analytics in the Age of Big Data

Lambda Solutions

If we could understand learners’ behaviours and activities, and find correlations to their learning success or failure, we could help people become more successful in their online courses. This use of big data to improve online learning is called learning analytics. Actionable Learning Analytics.

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