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How to evaluate social and informal learning

Jay Cross

Increasingly, learning is migrating from events (think “workshop&# ) to processes (think “social learning&# ). For example, take one aspect of a purposeful enterprise network, profiling. Profiles enable members of the community to search for answers to questions, to expertise, and to the wisdom of experience.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. Sharing is an act of learning and can be considered your responsibility for the greater social learning contract. In a few seconds, it reduced my 116-page manuscript to 10 items.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

Friday Flashback: Chris Lott’s Information Fluency and Social Fluency , March 26, 2009. Social Network Analysis: An introduction , June 12, 2009. Communities of Practice , March 13, 2009. The Community Manager , March 9, 2009. Social Network Analysis: An introduction , June 12, 2009.

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eLearning Learning - Best of June 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009. Social Learning and Communities of Practice , June 4, 2009. Social Learning Adoption Success: First Steps? Social Network Analysis: An introduction , June 12, 2009. Connecting ideas with communities , June 30, 2009. Attribution in a Web 2.0

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Let's improve our learning language as learning professionals

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Interventions can be assignments, but also facilitation of workshops and communities. Even doing a social network analysis and identifying thought leaders is an intervention. It is almost like intervention is a dirty word like teaching or lecturing.

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How to support informal learning

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Use amateur video and blogs to distribute information while it’s still fresh. Morris: In Return on Learning , Donald Vanthournout and his associates on Accenture’s Capability Development team claim that their firm achieved an ROI of 353% on its commitment to enterprise learning.