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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

It has been long neglected in the eLearning industry due to it's complexity (trust me I founded scholars.com and struggled with the scalability of it's mentoring model long after SmartForce bought it) for it has been far easier to manage content objects than collaboration objects. Or as BusinessWeek recently put it - The Power of Us.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Is there an emerging model for social learning? Janet: agreed about collaboration (and CoP's) require communities of Trust - not just fear of mistakes, fear of someone else getting an edge from you, while not sharing their knowledge. Cynan: yeah.

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Communities and Networks Connection

Tony Karrer

There is quite a network that is participating in the launch - from people who are close friends and trusted colleagues, to interesting people I try and follow. It surfaces the best content from Nancy White and her network around these topics. Shawn Callahan of Anecdote covers collaboration and communities of practice.

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

He chairs the Internet Time Alliance, a brain trust of six thought leaders who help companies boost their collective intelligence and profitability through networks. What organizations must do is trust and inspire their people to take responsibility and make decisions. They are currently refining informal/web 2.0