Remove Effectiveness Remove Informal Learning Remove Knowledge Worker Remove Social Software
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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. Encourage them to help people learn through membership in teams. What can you do?

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve productivity. Other notes: Definition of social media vary among attendees (~160). To provide a collaborative learning environment among cross-functional groups. ASTD Learning Circuits.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Service industries challenge workers to acquire tacit knowledge — the kind of know-how one learns on the job, not in the classroom. Person-to-person instruction is no longer cost-effective. Where Corporate Learning Came From. Training is not the same as learning. Real learning takes place elsewhere.