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The Big Question: how to assess informal learning

Clive on Learning

The Big Question on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is long enough to fill a post all by itself: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results? but then your job has and always will be to unpick all this.

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Nelnet Case Study: Mapping a Path to Employee Retention

edX

If we don’t know what jobs will exist in the future, how do we educate our people for them?”. That’s one of the big questions Allison Gemelke was asking herself in 2020. These initiatives would help Nelnet achieve an even more impactful goal: Expand its culture of continuous learning.

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You’ve Identified Knowledge and Skills Gaps in Your Organisation – Here’s What to Do Next

Capytech

E-learning is likely to play a big role, both custom-made e-learning modules and off-the-shelf courses for more common topics, such as soft skills. You may also need in-person training, on-the-job training, and strategies like assigning mentors to employees to help them improve in the areas that your business needs. Rinse & Repeat.

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Boomerang Employees: A Smart Hiring Trend or a Bad Idea?

KnowledgeCity

These so-called “boomerang employees” pursue this option for a variety of reasons, but it often boils down to a decision to make a calculated change in an uncertain job market. It’s not unheard of that a company’s culture can shift dramatically in a few years, often in direct proportion to staff turnover and changes in leadership.

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Activate, Accelerate & Advance: A Deep Dive into Our LENS Agenda

Degreed

A representative from Deloitte will share how your business can transform into a skills-based organization that honors and values your people’s unique talents more than the bullet points in a job description. You’ll find out how to create a culture that puts skills first and how that benefits your entire team. .

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The Big Question: What did you learn about learning in 2009?

Clive on Learning

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Memory, Reconsolidation and Big Questions.

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « 100,000 iPhone SDK Downloads in First Four Days | Main | Daily Quote/Lyric/Words of Others » March 20, 2008 Memory, Reconsolidation and Big Questions. I am a big fan of big questions. From the land of Huh?