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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

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Personalization for Knowledge Workers

Xyleme

In this post I address use cases that apply to a high-skilled knowledge workforce. Personalization for the high-skill knowledge worker. Personalized learning has different applications for different audiences. The subject of this post is a vision of personalized learning in the 2013 workplace.

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ASTD TechKnowledge

Tony Karrer

Session Hopping a Practical Guide General Session - New Work Literacies and E-Learning 2.0 Thursday, 01/29/2009 8:00AM - 9:00AM Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion of information sources, greatly increased accessibility of experts and expertise around the world, and new tools emerging every day.

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Part 4: Linked Enablement

CLO Magazine

AlliedBarton was not one of the early adopters of pull learning. Much of the reasoning behind its recent adoption is the highly regulated nature of the security industry. Further, the rise in informal learning is emblematic of a larger change in learning and development departments. This is not uncommon.

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

I will say that adopting TweetDeck on both my desktop and my iPhone has made it a much better tool for me. And it can turn into great things like: Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank. , 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

Tony Karrer

So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year.