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Disruptive Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Which is why disruptiveness—a quality once associated with children who couldn’t control themselves in school—has become the measuring stick of promising business ideas. She writes in The New Yorker : Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses fail.

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Adult learning theories for instructional designers: Andragogy

Matrix

In a series of articles, I will take a closer look at three modern adult learning theories that are not only relevant but highly applicable. This is important in the current context, as learning specialists deal with the challenge of building materials fast. The relevance of adult learning theories.

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The theory of psychological safety and what it means for your organization

Matrix

Over a decade ago, Professor Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School set out to study the learning organization and what could be done so companies would learn better from their experiences. These benefits are easy to pinpoint: constant quality improvements, a strong learning culture, and increased productivity.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

→ Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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The intersectionality of impression management and organizational learner presence

CLO Magazine

Organizational learners make training participation decisions in part based on impression management factors related to the training delivery method and the perceived professional benefit. This article presents a new theory of organizational learner presence and purports its applicability to practitioners and academics.

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Is your training effective – or just efficient?

Learning Pool

We can’t be more definite about that last statement because so little evaluation is done, but some indications of low training quality show up in research such as that recently carried out by UK analysts Fosway Group. Negative perceptions of the quality of elearning have undoubtedly held back growth in the past.

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Learning Suite: The past of learning systems

Learning Pool

But the 20th Century was when organizational learning really took off. But, in actual fact, all this functionality was present in some form in the experimental learning system PLATO pioneered at the University of Illinois. The phrase “click-next” e-learning began to be heard.

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