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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

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

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Kirkpatrick levels, Gagne, kinesthetic) when talking to executives. It’s based on the assumption that an elite can figure out what workers need to know, package it as explicit data, and serve it up in a database. Most of the knowledge workers seek is tacit and beyond the reach of databased systems.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Don Kirkpatrick proposed a model for measuring the outcomes of training. Knowledge workers learn more than twice as much from experience as from bosses and coaches, and the training department accounts for less half of that. Instead, managers should inspire workers, set expectations, and get out of the way. Know where.