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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Working from home offers me plenty of solitude but not the intellectual stimulation and those over-the-shoulder conversations so crucial to serendipity, ambient awareness, and informal learning. Activity streams and collaboration platforms can enhance and support such awareness but not replace it.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. Activity streams keep people informed in near real time. Collaboration takes hold.

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PDR Design Model Supports Shift to Learning Design in the Work Context

Living in Learning

We are behind the flow of business, and many of us do design and develop solutions for the bigger slice of the learning opportunity pie. If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. The type of learning that is rapidly trending upward is informal learning. Expanded Scope of Discovery.

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How to Select Online Manufacturing Training That’s Right for Your Company

Convergence Training

What we want to call out is that these days, there are two many ways to get them: Streaming from an internet site. Streaming Courses from Internet. An elearning course has the same content that you’d see in a course streaming from a website. Informal Learning. As elearning courses within an LMS.

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. There’s more and more to learn.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In the Age of Networks, customers can vanish and knowledge workers cross the chasm in the blink of an eye. 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.

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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. To provide a collaborative learning environment among cross-functional groups. For knowledge management.