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Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO

Jane Hart

So how then do we measure learning in the workplace? Well, although we can track formal learning activity, it is really not possible to track informal learning (where most people’s learning takes place). Quantity is an antiquated measure of success”.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Tools Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers Web 2.0 Applications in Learning Rethinking Learning Styles Understanding E-Learning 2.0 Tools - A Summary PR 2.0:

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Agile instructional design

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Old-style training enraged many managers because it was separate from work. Why isn’t Sally at work today? It needn’t be this way, particularly since knowledge work and learning are nearly indistinguishable. Most corporate learning today can take place simultaneously with work.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Informal Learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. Workshop on Business Impact of Learning in the Real World for Learning and Skills Group in London. Becoming very comfortable working while standing up.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics. Here are some things one might add to any training director’s job description: • Supporting the informal learning process. Creating useful, peer-rated FAQs and knowledge bases.

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Not Your Father’s ROI

Jay Cross

At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. The impacts of collaboration-based knowledge work are accelerating.

ROI 66
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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

In this 2011 edition, we added a more lucid description of workscapes, streamlined the social learning chapter, updated the cheat sheets, and included a glossary. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and continuous improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable.