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The Biggest Myths in Learning and Development

Absorb LMS

In the early 1960s, philosopher Abraham Kaplan and psychologist Abraham Maslow independently described the idea that being in possession of an instrument affects our perception. It isn’t that they’re anti social or informal learning, it’s just that they’re trying to make the process easier for everyone.

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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back. Tags: Informal Learning.

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The Neuroscience of Social Learning

Growth Engineering

In fact, UCLA professor Matthew Lieberman has challenged Abraham Maslow and his famous hierarchy of needs , placing social needs at the bottom of the pyramid. A growing body of research is showing that our need to connect socially with other people is as basic as any other survival need. This makes them more essential than food and water!

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Reflections from May trip to Italy, UK, and Netherlands

Jay Cross

Two days of the trip were paid work: One day I keynoted the Learning Innovations and Quality Conference and participated in the launch of the International Council for Open Research and Education ( ICORE ) in Rome. On another day I led a masterclass in informal learning and 702010 for a high-tech company and its customers in Utrecht.

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LearnTrends Audacity and More - Best of eLearning Learning September 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Metrics for the Modern CLO: How to Measure Formal and Informal Learning. Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning. Formalizing Informal Learning …What? Corporate learning not preparing workers for the future - Internet Time , September 23, 2009. What Makes Online Learning Effective?

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

The approach to strategy development depends on several factors such as your organizational structure, existing learning programs, organizational learning culture, and the value executives place on informal learning. Informal learning doesn’t provide that. Mobile Learning (40). Maslow (3).

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Is you is or is you ain't my ism?

The Learning Circuits

Maslow gave us some hints: it comes from needs (perceived or unconscious) which stretch across Maslow's full range, whether hierarchical or not. But it also contains a lot of mysterious (because repressed) components that Maslow didn't try to describe.

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