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How to evaluate social and informal learning

Jay Cross

Dan Pontefract had a great post on TrainingWreck about the inadequacy of the Kirkpatrick model in a world where learning is increasingly collaborative and networked. Increasingly, learning is migrating from events (think “workshop&# ) to processes (think “social learning&# ). Social networks are inevitable in enterprise.

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10 Best Online Course Social Media: Paid & Free

Think Orion

As social media continues to impact consumer shopping behavior, marketers vividly leverage these networks’ drawing power for promotion. percent of the world’s population, are social media users. For this reason, the demand for social media professionals is increasing. The numbers are enormous – there were 5.19

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Can the ‘big LMS’ break clear of formal training?

Clive on Learning

It’s SaaS (Software as a Service) offering, launched a few years ago to support medium-sized enterprises, now 4m users. Social network analysis. Across all applications the total now stands at 17m. The company is debt-free. The use of widgets, Outlook add-ins, etc. User-generated content submission with peer ratings.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Sharing is an act of learning and can be considered your responsibility for the greater social learning contract. Not only does it confirm the significant frequency of informal learning, it demonstrates that informal learning shows up in many ways: e-Learning, traditional book study, social learning, and experience.”

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Make Your Social Network A Learning Tool

CLO Magazine

By understanding how informal networks communicate and collaborate, social network analysis can facilitate more effective learning program design and promote more innovative collaboration. Behind every official organization chart is a web of informal networks composed of individual relationships.

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

And then I hear that back on July 27 Premiere Global Services announced that it was buying Netspoke for $23.2M And a communication services company buys a collaboration company. First, on Monday, WebEx buys intranets.com for $45M in cash ( details ) then today SumTotal buys Pathlore for $29M in cash ( details ) and $19M in stock.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

mariancasey: social network. Moderator (Clark Quinn): but things are moving too fast, networks where everyone is thinking towards the same goal) is where agility (yes, I said agile ) can flourish. Chris 2: Agile networks require collaborative learning across companies. kelly_smith01: change was yesterday.