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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

From a community of practice perspective, lurking is interpreted as “legitimate peripheral participation,” a crucial process by which communities offer learning opportunities to those on the periphery. (p. After digging through the references and some old articles I had saved, these are some of the key points that emerged.

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

Of course, there’s a lot of great information out there on this via eLearning Learning under terms like Discussion Forum , Collaboration in Discussion Forums , Discussion Forum Adoption , Benefits of Discussion Forums , Discussion Forum Case Studies.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

A: Ben Willis- Saba has had social & collaborative capabilities in our product suite for a very long while (since 2004 and the 3.x and the Social Social software phenomena, Saba has long held the point of view that these are meaningful technologies and philosophies that can and do drive real productivity.

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5 Ways to Engage Deskless Workers with Learning

Degreed

Companies upskilling and deploying talent effectively are emphasizing internal rather than external resources. When learning leaders at Ecopetrol rolled out a learning experience platform (LXP), they were surprised to find people in operations and maintenance roles — not only desk jobs — among the biggest early adopters.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Many of the corporations that adopted eLearning fell under the same mistaken spell that beguiled investors. Studies) Most corporate training is an example of the “Streetlight Effect.”. Besides, learning on the job is more effective than learning outside of the job.