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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). Most learning professionals view social media as valuable to learners, and usage is growing.

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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. Training is not the same as learning. Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job.