The ability to provide an interviewer with the guidelines for interviewing a disabled person just before the interview takes place, or supply a sales person with the important features and functions of a new product offering just before the pitch is made to a major prospect, validates the power of the Internet to enable learning. In many cases, learning will no longer take place in the learning community, per se, but rather in the context of what is important to the end user. In addition, learning can be effectively monitored and managed. The HR staff can monitor the number of employees who have taken training on safety in the workplace, sexual harassment policy, or the company mission and core values. And learning can be tailored.
People learn in different ways.
Some are visual, while others need the words and ideas. A learning profile can be added to the personalization engine of the people-centric architecture to automatically deliver an appropriately tailored learning vehicle. People-centric solutions, or ebusiness communities, seek to deliver relevant information to the right people to promote goal oriented learning and success. These communities offer an environment that fosters learning by its very structure. It brings together content sources from various business networks and ensures the convergence of relevant information, then offers them in an environment of knowledge, collaboration, analytics, and the ability to take action, or transact.