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Top 5 Things Associations can Learn from Corporate Training Departments

Association eLearning

Corporate training departments have carried this further, by implementing coaching and communities of practice (CoP). Likewise, associations can leverage their membership to create virtual and ongoing communities of practice. Share this on Google+. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Tweet This! Send via Email.

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8 Best practices to facilitate informal learning

Matrix

Google has been allowing its employees to work on their own projects 20% of the time. The outcomes for a company that does this can be tremendous – Gmail, Google Maps, Twitter, Slack, and Groupon all started as side projects. We live in an age when we don’t search for news, the news find us. Social sharing.

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Social Learning: How to Build Conversations into Your eLearning Courses

Mindflash

That is the bad news about most eLearning. . The good news is that your eLearning courses do not have to be one-way. In fact, adult learning theory and communities of practice address the important of social interactions and learning. You can follow him on Twitter or on Google+. Uncategorized yammer'

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The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/28/2010 The most updated and informative e-Learning community on Twitter On Twitter exists a resourceful community of e-Learning professionals. Hi Karyn, thank you for the info.

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Jay Cross – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Forming the Alliance community was easily the best professional development move of my career. We are continuously conversing on Skype and we meet online as a group every Monday morning to talk over news and gossip, chat about trends, and ask for pointers and help.

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Maximize Your Content: A Guide to Nine Curation Tools

Learning Rebels

So this requires moving beyond the first few articles the Google machine provides! Academic journals, established news organizations, and reputable industry publications often have rigorous editorial standards, making them reliable sources of information. Is it a reputable website or publication?

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 02/17/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

the more work I do for online communities of practice, the more I have to meet people face-to-face. Innovation: "Geography is Destiny" - New Florence. New Renaissance. Clearly the Valley has overwhelming advantages, with enough VCs, angels, tech alums etc to keep nurturing a new generation of entrepreneurs.