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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

Trends in What L&D Organizations are Doing As a result of these trends, some L&D organizations are looking to social and informal learning. Training Method Trends suggests that social learning tools are beginning to take off. Applications in Learning suggest that this will be scattered. are emerging.

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

This is similar to a post I wrote called Social Learning Defined where I argued that there were three models at play simultaneously: socializing existing formal models (top-down), the sharing of information “from the trenches” back to management (bottoms-up) and the sharing of best practices and collaborating (side-to-side). …

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Long Live?

Tony Karrer

The common theme in the responses via the ASTD blog are: We are already seeing organizations look at how they can enable greater informal and social learning opportunities. As compared to today, there will be greater emphasis on support for informal and social learning in the workplace. Long Live what?