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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

After all, they already have discussion boards and virtual classrooms and videoconference gear. “We learn by conversing with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us.”. In my case, I’d probably check the O’Reilly site since I maintain a virtual bookshelf there that gives me access to scads of technical books.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The world around corporate training has changed. What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. eLearning was born. They all offered great products.