Tweet Soft skills , especially collaboration and networking, will become more important than traditional hard skills. Smart employers have always focused more on attitude than any specific skill-set because they know they can train for a lack of skills and knowledge. So what are these so-called softs skills? MORE >>

We would miss out on so many learning opportunities. Every professional needs to be open to continuous learning and to make much of it transparent in order to cooperate with others. With social media, anyone can easily create digital content and collaborate with others without any special programming skills. Most of us are not. MORE >>

I’ve pointed out the problems with learning styles in the past, but I want to rethink them with you, as we took quite a positive out of them in a unique way.  I decided then what I still do now, that essentially all of the learning style instruments are garbage.  Tags: meta-learning So, is there anything to salvage? MORE >>

In all the excitement about empowering learners by providing rich information and social environments, it’s too easy to think that “if you build it, they will learn&#.  My ITA colleague Charles Jennings made a nice first pass at a list of useful skills. Social learning skills similarly should not be assumed.  MORE >>

He is constantly learning as he works and has found a method to keep up, thanks to the Internet. This information overload has a direct impact on workplace learning. In the industrial workplace, our training programs could prepare us for years of work, but much of what we learn today will be outdated in months or even weeks. MORE >>