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I recently posted on integrating audio with e-learning authoring tools, and in the near future, I’ll be covering some aspects of the visual aspects of creating e-learning content, focusing on creating video for application demonstrations and using still imagery in e-learning.
In the meantime, the eLearning Guild have just published an informative primer called Making [...]

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The eLearning Guild have just published an informative primer called Making a Demonstration Video for E-Learning Use.

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Many commentators, including Stern and Sommerlad (1999) assert that informal and non-formal learning
…have acquired visibility and saliency [because they] sit at the juncture of new thinking concerning the nature of learning about new forms of knowledge, about the transformation of the nature of work and about the modern enterprise in a globalized economy
(cited in [...]

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Learning professionals need to begin working with lines of business outside of the HR / Training orbit to provide learning opportunities for employees.

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Informal learning should no longer be regarded as an inferior form of learning whose main purpose is to act as the precursor of formal learning; it needs to be seen as fundamental, necessary and valuable in its own right, at times directly relevant to employment and at other times not relevant at all.
(Coffield 2000, [...]

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Informal learning should no longer be regarded as an inferior form of learning whose main purpose is to act as the precursor of formal learning; it needs to be seen as fundamental, necessary and valuable in its own right, at times directly relevant to employment and at other times not relevant at all.
(Coffield 2000, [...]

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The number of available tools and technologies for online employee training continues to grow each year. Hundreds of content authoring tools, learning management systems, and learning content management systems are currently available.
Brandon Hall Research, providers of information about the tools, technologies, and best practices related to employee training and enterprise learning have just [...]

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Brandon Hall have just released a report Learning Technology Products: Authoring Tools, Learning Management Systems, and Learning Content Management Systems.

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Looking specifically at learning in the workplace, Michael Eraut in Non-formal learning, implicit learning and tacit knowledge (2000) makes a clear distinction between his interpretation of the term ‘non-formal learning’ and what others including Scribner (1988), Conner (2002) and Cross (2003) would call ‘informal learning’ – what Eraut terms ‘incidental learning’ or

the acquisition of knowledge [...]

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Looking at workplace learning, Michael Eraut makes a clear distinction between his view of the term ‘nonformal learning’ and what others call ‘informal learning’

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