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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Dan Pontefract, in his most excellent post The Standalone LMS is Dead makes the following argument: “Set up your ‘Facebook for the organization’ by embedding an LMS (or LMS like features) into your enterprise-wide collaboration platform. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. Goofing off, Facebook, the football pool. Better to Say.