This is the 4th in a series of posts about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning. The three previous posts in this series were: The Smart Worker : learns continuously with social media. Tweet. We  need to ensure that the materials are accurate. MORE >>

In a recent comment on my blog I compared learning in the modern day workplace with learning a second language.    The more I thought about this analogy, the more it worked quite well to make my points about what workplace learning is all about and how social and collaboration tools fit in.  MORE >>

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. But the reality was more than that as I explored in posts like Business of Learning and Models for Learning Questions. tools. Grade: ??? MORE >>

Here is my weekly round-up of blog postings and bookmarks - all in one place. Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day. Social Media in Learning. Introduction to social learning environments: a social learning resource. Whose learning are you responsible for? new model of learning. MORE >>

  The more I thought about this analogy, the more it worked quite well to make my points about what workplace learning is all about and how social and collaboration tools fit in.  learned German at school and actually went on to study it at university.  Finally a word about Social Learning.  MORE >>