Kindle Highlights Social Learning

When you look at the kindle edition of books on Amazon.com, you can now see what other people have highlighted in their editions of the ebook. This means you can now have a fabulous way to share what you're learning and a socially-generated way to learn from others. It's sort of like Cliff-notes for the digital era.

While I've struggled with becoming an online book reader, this feature shows me possibilities that truly advance publishing into a new more collaborative age. Rather than just look through ratings from other readers, I'm going to scan through the points that leaped out and resonated with previous readers. Cool!

To get a sense of the sorts of things highlighted, here are the popular highlights from Kindle edition of The New Social Learning.

 Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.  Highlighted by 33 Kindle users

 Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow.  Highlighted by 26 Kindle users

 In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.  Highlighted by 22 Kindle user..........

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