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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

While increasing amount of concept work and the pace of change puts a premium on learning, the business of learning faces an incredibly difficult time. In the past few weeks, I've had some really eye-opening conversations about the state of Learning as a Business. But that doesn't mean you have a viable business.

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LearnTrends Audacity and More - Best of eLearning Learning September 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Business applications of Twitter - E-learning in the Corporate Sector , September 3, 2009. Why Learning 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0 The Fallacy of Open/Closed Culture in Social Business Design - Skilful Minds , September 22, 2009. Business Casual , September 7, 2009. LearnTrends (17). Learnerprise 2.0: Hot Topics.

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Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Examples (from The Social Enterprise Blog ): Caterpillar 3000 communities of practice = $75 million saved as of 5 years ago. Look for areas of the business that have a critical need, preferably a need distributed across the organization. Hard/soft benefits. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. Amy Graff: I teach students going into business (online). Holly MacDonald: We need to talk about outcomes and business results within our orgs/with clients, not focus on "how" - that is stuff that we talk about with each other.

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2.0 and Interesting Times

Tony Karrer

It's worth taking a look at some of these: Enterprise 2.0 Definition (via Andrew McAfee ): the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers HR & Org Implication: Enterprise 2.0 The theme of LearnTrends 2009 is a term I call Convergence. is the use of Web 2.0

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Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

I was somewhat introduced to the potential of Google Wave during the LearnTrends Conference. SharePoint 2007: Gateway Drug to Enterprise Social Tools :: Personal InfoCloud , March 16, 2009. LearnTrends. Microlearning presentation at LearnTrends , November 19, 2009. LearnTrends: Microlearning , November 19, 2009.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

Andrew McAfee , Principal Research Scientist , Center for Digital Business – MIT Sloan School of Management and Author, Enterprise 2.0. Today, Enterprise 2.0 He shares strategies, stories, and real-world examples of successful enterprise collaboration using 2.0 People already share knowledge within the enterprise.

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