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LearnTrends: Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations

Experiencing eLearning

technologies including a ‘Learning Exchange’ based on Sun technology, a virtual Technology Institute and other global immersive eLearning solutions including a virtual world collaboration environment. Hands on practice with actual tools, but in a safe environment. Working with Sun for Thomson Reuters Social Learning Exchange (SLX).

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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. Sun and ILA are developing what I call learnscapes. This is a group that learns from nano-nuggets.

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The Coherent Organization

Jay Cross

The underlying concept is that organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. There’s nothing new under the sun. You need to optimize participation in all of them.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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The Chief of Confusion

Jay Cross

There’s nothing new under the sun. A dozen years ago, JSB described explicit knowledge (know-what, resides in books) and tacit knowledge (know-how, lives in people and their practices). Hence, the importance of communities of practice. The explicit stuff is the tip of an iceberg of knowledge that is primarily tacit.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

Learning with e's

Now, for those who are unfamiliar with the Reform Symposium, let me explain: It's a 72 hour live web based symposium that follows the sun. New and emerging embedded systems such as iBeacon might perform this kind of activity tracking, but might also be used to enhance communications across campus, and within communities of practice.

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Free L&D webinars for December 2019

Limestone Learning

In this first Ask Me Anything session, Erin Melvin, Director of Client Engagement, will focus on general best practices in elearning and answer some of the questions you’ve submitted over the past few months, as well as many live questions as time allows. Some topics covered will be: Building a community of practice.

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