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Learning Suite: The past of learning systems

Learning Pool

But this concept came as something of a challenge to makers of learning systems. The answer to this challenge was a whole wave of innovation; learning experience platforms (LXPs), next-generation learning environments (NGLEs) and specialist providers. But the 20th Century was when organizational learning really took off.

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If the spacing effect is so great, why is nobody using it?

Learning Pool

There are few things in learning theory that everyone in learning and development agrees on. Let me rephrase that: there is almost nothing in learning theory that everyone agrees on. Very few organizational learning programs make use of the spacing effect, currently. . We have a disputatious culture.

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5 steps to using the spacing effect in your next training

Learning Pool

These associations with learning theory and celebrity high-achievers (whom Gladwell dubbed ‘outliers’) might make spaced practice seem rather abstract and rarified; not for the rest of us. Learners having agency has been proved to be highly beneficial to learning as well. But ordinary people deploy spaced practice every day.

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Is your training effective – or just efficient?

Learning Pool

During the first decade and a half of elearning’s existence as an industry, this remained the norm, with learning systems designed with the needs of administrators, rather than learners, in mind. And that means improvements in performance and productivity leading to positive outcomes for the business.

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Clark Quinn – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Learnnovators: What are the latest trends in organizational learning & development, and performance support? We, like others, believe the reason for this to be the present education system design that was perfected for the needs of ‘industrialization’. How do you look at the adaptive learning technologies of today?

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Laura Overton – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Learnnovators: What kind of a shift in thinking do you visualize for building a learning system that aligns with the dynamically changing demands of this knowledge age? Processing learning data to produce insights that could help organizations embrace action?

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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

The crisply written Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice covers all the fundamentals. From traditional learning theories and motivation learning to how the digital age has changed adult learning. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey.