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eLearning Predictions Further Thoughts

Tony Karrer

I expected it to be about how to use twitter as a knowledge worker. Virtual Worlds Great comment: Your number #1 point was how busy everyone is, who has time for virtual worlds??? People end up staying home to be able to attend virtual events. That should be a bit of a “wow”. I ran into a post about Using Twitter at Work.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

As the Senior Partner of Bob Little Press & PR , you have been providing business-to-business public relations (PR) services to many organizations in the ‘learning’ and ‘learning technologies’ industry for years. After 25 years in the business, I’m still learning things about PR. THE INTERVIEW: 1. Learnnovators: Hi Bob.

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43 Great eLearning Posts and 5 Hot Topics Including Google Buzz and iPad

eLearning Learning Posts

E-Learning along the curve: adapting to knowledge workers learning needs - The E-Learning Curve , February 18, 2010 Formally-structured approaches to learning are best deployed to novices in the relevant discipline or skill area.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Learning is the business. That bears repeating: In the Information Age, learning is the business. Every business has a life cycle. Businesses are born, they grow, they prosper, they mature, they taper off, they die. Most businesses have wrung most of the productivity benefits out of their processes. Life cycles.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

For services outside the firewall, blockage continues to be an issue driven by such barriers as organizational culture, bandwidth limitations, security issues, IT resistance, and lack of resources. information/knowledge workers. Managing Wikis In Business. To create a place for informal learning. need access to SMEs.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

This paper addresses how organizations, particularly business organizations, can get more done. Workers who know more get more accomplished. Now it’s often more effective to take control by giving control, by letting “the invisible hand” self-organize worker learning. How workers learn now. Execution is the goal.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Training became a department and a standard facet of every business.