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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. I’ve participated in this survey since 2007, and have already updated my personal list in her index.

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Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

For me, I’m still figuring out where twitter will fit - Twitter as Personal Learning and Work Tool. Sense-making with PKM , March 12, 2009. SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools :: Personal InfoCloud , March 16, 2009. Building a Studio for Instructional Videos on a Tight Budget , December 4, 2008.

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Why Content Curation Should be in Your Skillset

Jay Cross

In a minute I’ll give you the story of a company that saved over fifty million dollars with a low-budget curation program. Curation helps individuals keep professional skills sharp, improve critical thinking, earn professional recognition, build reputation, grow personal networks, and “work out loud.” IDEA: New person joining the team?