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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

You probably read a compelling argument recently that people in knowledge organizations learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches and mentors. You could deliver a much bigger bang for your training buck by greasing the skids to make experiential learning more systematic, coached and attractive.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. 70% experiential, 20% coaching, 10% formal. Increase the effectiveness of coaching (the 20%) by recognizing the vital role of managers and supervisors. Social software facilitates conversation.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

You’ve also sensed a groundswell in the learning and development community favoring social, self-directed, “pull” learning. You recently read a compelling argument that people in knowledge organizations learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

Making Sense Of The iPad For Online Learning - The eLearning Coach , February 8, 2010 The noise about the release of Apple’s iPad has been a bit overwhelming. Reasons are plentiful, including but not limited to the following: Increasing job demands > less time to get it all done. No problem.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Noted main difference between main stream media and social media. Social media enables everyone to publish/access info inexpensively. Distance learning—Social software’s killer ap? Information from Microsoft SMB insight report (increase SaaS, investment in tech). 2, 2005, pp. Anderson, T. Aragon, S.R.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn more than twice as much from experience as from bosses and coaches, and the training department accounts for less half of that. Training professionals acknowledge that social and collaborative activities account for most workplace learning, followed by self-directed learning. Feeds, Tweets, streams.