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"The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning is a NEW and EVOLVING resource and community site on how to support continuous learning and performance improvement - in the workflow - using non-training approaches. This site has been set up by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Peformance Technologies (C4LPT). Find out more in the About page."

A book-in-progress community site. Click on the "book" tab and then on any of the menu of sections and the evolving text by Jane Hart becomes available. Register with the associated community to make comments on the text. Hart's first such venture, The Social Learning Handbook, became a book after a similar process of posting and gaining feedback.

The emerging role of social media and learning in organizations and society. "UnTraining" - Jane Hart's "Center for Learning and Performance Technologies" site; compilation of resources, reflective and sharing blog posts, links to own consulting services and publications.

From outside of formal education circles, another learner/consultant synthesizing knowledge of the emerging uses of social media for learning

The cohort group had been meeting throughout the summer, focusing on learning about social networks, on making connections, reading blogs, trying Twitter and Facebook, and thinking about social tools in the context of their curriculum. The teachers come from every discipline, from math to special education to media specialists. ... [The Supt] started by asking everyone to read Margaret Wheatley's "Willing to be Disturbed."

USDOE's site presenting improvements to increase educational productivity and providing a link to suggest others.