Visualizing Informal Professional Development Networks: Building a Case for Learning Analytics in the Workplace.
Informal learning has become an important driver for professional development and workplace learning. Yet, however powerful informal learning may be, there is a problem when it comes to making it a real asset within organizations: Informal learning activities are spontaneous and mostly invisible to...
| Publicado en: | American Behavioral Scientist Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 1421 - 1439 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2013
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