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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Vendors don’t make money from informal learning. 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. The hunger for proprietary knowledge does not stop at the firewall.

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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. Vendors churned out page-turners and shovelware.