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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Neither investing in only formal training and education nor placing all your bets on informal learning is a good strategy. To manage and develop human capital, companies must recognize unsentimentally that people with these talents are assets to invest in. eLearning vendors look at another set of economics. ” [1].

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. Many of the corporations that adopted eLearning fell under the same mistaken spell that beguiled investors. CFOs questioned the return on their companies’ investment in training.