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The Skills Gap –  The Correlation Between Training & the Skills Gap – Part III

Jigsaw Interactive

According to a Training Magazine report, U.S. Says Shannon Heath, senior communications specialist, “Knowledge workers never want to be stagnant, so SAS provides opportunities for growth to keep our employees challenged, motivated, and engaged” ( Monster ). The same idea holds true for upskilling employees when things change.

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Does Your Organization Need a Learning Culture?

The Performance Improvement Blog

They need to acquire new information, new skills, and develop new abilities and they need to do this in a way in which that learning will be retained and applied immediately. The learning cognoscenti know there are no shortcuts to effective learning. They also have other options for learning than just company training.

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Learning in the flow of work is the future

CLO Magazine

The question is: What does this mean for corporate L&D? Simply put, we have an exciting opportunity to change the very nature of our role in corporate learning. Consider trailblazing digital innovations such as YouTube, Lynda.com, microlearning, AR, VR, MOOCs of every kind and how they’ve radically altered how people learn.

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JSB on the roots of informal learning

Jay Cross

Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. Back in California, Peter and I met at IRL to talk further about informal learning, communities of practice, anthropological research, and learning as engagement.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledge workers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledge workers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Strategy" Fails Corollary: if you have SharePoint installed, you will be using SharePoint a lot more this year.

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Can Knowledge Sharing Transform Learning?

CLO Magazine

Create structure around expert-to-expert learning to take advantage of its potential. The world of knowledge sharing and user-authored content is not something to fear. Just freeing up all the knowledge workers in your company to talk is a good start, but once they talk, how do you manage the conversations to find new knowledge?