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15 essentials for successful learning

Jay Cross

While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. Set high expectations, and people live up to them. Ensure that managers and mentors understand the impact of stretch assignments. People learn by doing.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a baggage handler accessing a job aid on his or her bag tag scanner or a copy machine service technician connecting via the machine interface to a live, virtual mentor. Collaborative learning also can be informal discussion groups in Yammer, rating content on SharePoint or mashing up a video.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brent Schlenker: Marketers and Game Developers Know More About Learning Than We Do!

Learning Visions

We’re not talking about “dressing up&# content to fake that it’s engaging. Mash this up with the chat and you practically have the whole session. This is the same stuff that many in the learning field are already picking up on. SO glad you picked up on that. Nice capture, Cammy. Thank you!