Learn to Adapt

• Tips for Creating a Successful Community of Practice – Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise.
• Here are 24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality | World Economic Forum – Our minds are powerful tools, but they're also very impressionable.

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• LearnletsRevisiting 70:20:10 – A key point many of us forget in our ISD: “Another issue, for me, is that 70:20:10 not only provides a push towards thinking of the whole picture, … it serves as a design tool.”
• 6 Reasons Why Corporate Training Programs Fail – While they are all good points, my favorite is: “The fourth reason many programs fail is that they allow the employee to ‘lose focus’ and effectiveness. Courses, learning paths and programs need to be highly coordinated, delivered in a meaningful way, and continued in a reasonable time frame.”

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• 10 Myths about Modern Workplace Learning
• 7 Best Practices in Setting Up a Corporate University

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• The End of ‘Learning Style’ Lore? | The Weekly Standard – Oh, please make it so! It would be great to finally put this BS behind us. From the article: "According to some 30 neuroscientists connected to top U.S., British, and Continental universities, the learning-styles approach is bunk."
• ‘Follow your Passion’ is Wrong, Here are 7 Habits You Need Instead – Most people are not fortunate enough to have found their passion and built a carer around it. This list can help you be successful and satisfied, sans passion.

written by Jeff Kelly \\ tags: bookmark, career, l2a, leadership, learning2.0, neuroscience

• The Myth of "Micro-Learning" | Bottom-Line Performance – Finally, a voice of reason in all the micro-learning hysteria. I believe it is really only suitable to what we used to refer as "electronic performance support systems" – basically to help you perform a specific task. Many (most) things cannot be effectively taught in micro-doses.

  From the article: "The concern I have is that we make an assumption that we can and should winnow down all learning initiatives to fit into this 4.8 minutes per day or 24 minutes per week."

• Why Organizations Don’t Learn | Internet Time Blog – Another insightful post from Jay Cross. The reference HBR article is good stuff too!

written by Jeff Kelly \\ tags: bookmark, jaycross, l2a, learning2.0, microlearning, od