Adventures in Corporate Education

I’m going to make this post quick, because I’m actually supposed to be working on a gap analysis for one of my classes.
A colleague and I have been presenting this presentation:
Social Media Ed Svcs Overview
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Basically, remember to:

Tie this to business needs
Show how it enables informal learning
Explain it will still require resources [...]

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Besides working on my two performance classes, I’ll also be attending a couple of Boston-based events.
Tues Nov 3 I’ll be at the Mass chapter of ISPI to hear Cammy Bean talk about eLearning authoring tools. Several other #lrnchat folks will be there too.
Tues Nov 17 I’m planning to go to the Greater Boston ASTD meeting [...]

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July’s big question is very timely for me! Here is the question:
In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?
This week my Web 2.0 Learning and Performance [...]

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This month’s Big Question from ASTD is “what will workplace learning be like in 10 years?”. If you go to their post, there are already some really interesting thoughts and comments about this topic.
Byron said “The best prophet of the future is the past”. I’m a firm believer in that notion, so I’d like to [...]

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The latest Training and Development magazine (from ASTD) has a very relevant article to some of the work I am doing this quarter for my organization. The article is titled It’s [Not] the Technology, Stupid. The article is about the pitfalls of thinking just because you have the technology to do it it that you’ll [...]

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