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Informal learning: Why it matters to a business

ProProfs

The Balance , on the other hand, lists the incapacity to boost employee skills and the lack of opportunity to use them as one of the main factors for job abandonment. According to CARA’s 2010 Survey on social media impact, nearly 70% of what is learned in life and at work happens through informal and social learning. It is fun and enticing.

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Performance Support

Clark Quinn

He later asks: Overall, what are corporate blogs, feeds, aggregators, wikis, mash-ups, locator systems, collaboration environments, and widgets, if not performance support? Gloria’s goal for EPSS was to enable people who didn’t know what they were doing to function as if they did.

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Profile of a learning architect: Tiina Paju-Pomfret

Clive on Learning

A portfolio of learning assets was created, which included ‘above the line’ learning interventions (instructor-led classroom and online classroom) as well as ‘below the line’ (e-learning, email and phone support, with corporate social networking groups). This was accomplished using Bupa’s Saba Centra virtual classroom platform.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

For example, when I view my blog's content through the eLearning Learning lens , it shows me that relative to other sources of content in the system, I tend to talk about: eLearning 2.0 (130) 130) Work Skills (26) PWLE (16) Flash Quiz (8) Knowledge Work (40) That's a pretty fair representation of topics that I talk about.

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How Companies Are Approaching Diversity and Inclusion

Everwise

As Clorox observed on its corporate blog , “If you cannot answer the diversity question clearly and favorably when it is asked in the recruiting process, young people are going to choose to work elsewhere.”. Case Study: L’Oréal USA.

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Making the Connection: Diversity & Profits

Everwise

MIT economist Sara Ellison concurred with McKinsey’s theory that the relationship between D&I and financial results is more than just correlation: “Having a more diverse set of employees means you have a more diverse set of skills, [which] could result in an office that functions better.”

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Quality vs. Speed

The Learning Circuits

This reduces time and cost and may improve scalability because the skills required for development can be easily spread. Rapid e-Learning often involves paring back training to the minimum amount and minimal treatment, quickly building those training elements, and providing the remainder of content as reference.

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