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From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”

Jane Hart

Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Activity streams. Member profiling. Real-time updates. Threaded discussions.

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Defining the modern learning suite

Learning Pool

Businesses that have large numbers of tech-savvy knowledge workers may be more driven by the employee experience and the need to support self-directed learning. It is also important to recognize that onboarding has a strong social dimension: the new employee is joining a community, forming a new network. Transitioning.

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

ID Reflections

Activity streams and collaboration platforms can enhance and support such awareness but not replace it. In today’s non-hierarchical, networked organizations with fluid job roles, conversations over coffee are often how people find out about skills and common passions. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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The Advantages of eLearning

eLearning Brothers

The mission of corporate eLearning is to supply the workforce with an up-to-date and cost-effective program that yields motivated, skilled, and loyal knowledge workers. Workers can also improve productivity and use their own time more efficiently, as they no longer need to travel or fight rush-hour traffic to get to a class.

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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. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations. Activity streams keep people informed in near real time.

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

Living in Learning

If knowledge workers are not in training, they must be at work. Here again, we must have advance knowledge of the work context. We cannot stream a 15-minute program to a sales rep in front of a client. Streamed audio likely came out of a decision that considered burning CDs as an alternative. .

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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. Value Stream Mapping. Streaming or eLearning? Standardized Work.