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LMS Innovation: Where’s the Value?

Talented Learning

One of those opportunities was with SpongeUK , where I explained how LMS innovation is helping businesses create new revenue streams. there’s a lot of LMS innovation involving marketing capabilities, gamification, social learning and ways to enhance formal learning environments with informal learning activities.

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Jay Cross

Work and learning are converging, and as this change happens, the infrastructure of the old corporate learning must go – things like traditional one-size-fit-all in-person training seminars. Activity streams, like Twitter, so I know what’s going on and what people are talking about. Others are not.

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Peeragogy

Jay Cross

Since the teacher learns more than the student, let’s all be both teachers and students. Esteemed co-learners, your job is to create new co-learning communities. If a group doesn’t exist for facilitate your informal learning, make one. Peeragogy is a set of techniques for collaborative learning and work.

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Through the Workscape Looking Glass

Jay Cross

In the same vein, I talk about Working Smarter instead of informal learning, social learning, and so forth. Some people denigrate informal learning but nobody’s against Working Smarter. Your organization already has a workscape where people are learning to work smarter. Access to information.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Moving beyond threaded e-mail and videoconferencing, future collaborative tools will combine historical data, predictive analysis and real-time discussion to create a decision-making process that is more rapid and better informed. Training” extends outside the firewall. Knowledge is power. Most people are reluctant to give it up.

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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. Noted main difference between main stream media and social media. Most learning professionals view social media as valuable to learners, and usage is growing. Digenti, D.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

However, go to any training conference, including ASTD’s own International Conference and Exhibition, and you don’t hear much about instructor-led training or self-paced learning. Training is not the same as learning. Feeds, Tweets, streams. These departments are searching under the streetlight rather than in the park.