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Managing Learning?

Performance Learning Productivity

In a world where the majority of learning is in the workflow and most of it is ‘informal’ (self-directed or undirected in the moment of need), the idea of pouring large amounts of your organisation’s L&D budget into a concept and technology that was designed to make easier the scheduling of courses and programmes is not a sensible one to take.

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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

They continued to put almost all of the training budget into schooling novices. He writes: “I thought I had made a sound business case for investing more in informal learning, but few organizations changed their ways. They acted as if the natural way of informal learning didn’t exist. Or was someone else’s responsibility.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Budgeting for Learning 2.0: As I’ve repeatedly stated, formal classroom sessions are important, but they don’t have to be the only thing offered to the employee base, and they don’t have to exhaust the entire budget. tools into their practices. I have to tell you it is the BEST project! I thought I’d share some of the fun stuff that.

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Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Sense-making with PKM , March 12, 2009. Building a Studio for Instructional Videos on a Tight Budget , December 4, 2008. Personal in Personal Knowledge Management , July 22, 2009. I Finally Get It – Why Social Networking is So Important , September 29, 2009. Coaching informal learning , May 9, 2009. February 25, 2009.