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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This morning I received an email asking…”How are people using social software to support learning?” Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job. Apply the 80/20 rule to critical functions and seed communities of practice around them.