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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Here’s a summary of the Working Smarter Fieldbook : While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training class divorced from work.

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M And a communication services company buys a collaboration company. in cash ( details ). So a virtual meeting company buys a collaboration company. A LMS company buys another LMS company.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Christy Confetti Higgins: Could IDs be community advocates? What I hear right now is a lot about information services - becoming information experts in the organization and connecting employees to people and content to enable their work. Cynan: yeah.

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Use amateur video and blogs to distribute information while it’s still fresh. Morris: In Return on Learning , Donald Vanthournout and his associates on Accenture’s Capability Development team claim that their firm achieved an ROI of 353% on its commitment to enterprise learning.