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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | October 1, 2021

Mike Taylor

When we’re bored, our brains are relaxed and our usual “filters” are off. We can do ourselves and our teams a great service by prioritizing space for spacing out and letting our minds wander. The Communities of Practice Playbook. The surprising, science-backed value of boredom at work.

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Immersive learning environments may become the norm in training

Matrix

The human brain, however, has stayed pretty much the same. That’s because the center for all decision making is in our reptilian brain which works on impulses – you see, at the dawn of time, the most important decisions were whether to run from or confront the bear and a deep philosophical approach would have meant imminent extinction.

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3 Things You Can Only Learn from a Real E-Learning Expert

Rapid eLearning

So I took advantage of the time with him to pick his brain and get a feel for his perspective on our industry. We are using Twitter as a baby monitoring service. June 8: Philadelphia, PA (ASTD Greater Philadelphia Chapter)— How to Cultivate Communities of Practice. Werner Oppelbaumer on the flight from Orlando to Seattle.

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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation. Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Could you please share your alliance story with our readers please? They co-exist.”

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work. Brain Science Learn For Yourself' Do you use a summarizer to condense text?

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JAY CROSS – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation. Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Could you please share your alliance story with our readers please? They co-exist.”

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At The Water Cooler of Learning

Marcia Conner

Learning makes brains physically bigger. moment that signals the brain has connected the dots, is an absolutely wondrous and amazing mystery. Most real learning—the kind that sticks to the walls of the brain—is informal. We concluded that human assets are the most important element of our collective P&L.