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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 70% of workplace knowledge is learned informally (a statistic that is frequently referenced in the learning industry).

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When Learning is the Work: Approaches for supporting learning in the workplace

Performance Learning Productivity

Two weeks ago I ran a webinar under this title for Citrix. At the start I posed the question “when you think about one great learning experience you’ve had, can you remember where it occurred? Was it in a classroom or workshop, or did it occur while you were completing the task?” I’ve asked this question, or variations of it, many times over the past few years.

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eLearning: More on Copyright

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by AJ George. After my last article on when it's okay to use copyrighted information , I received some great resources from one of our readers,  Christy Tucker. First, there's the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Produced by American University's Center for Social Media, it gives some good guidelines for what is and isn't considered Fair Use.

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Alternative to ADDIE –Scrum

Kapp Notes

For a long, long time the ADDIE model has been held up as the “holy grail&# of the process to design instruction. An alternative, presented in only 7 minutes in the video below is to use the agile software development method known as Scrum. Check out the video and see if this compressed method would work for your design needs. Image from Reaktor.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Adobe FrameMaker 10: Repeat the Last Operation

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

by Barb Binder  Here's another simple, yet powerful feature that is new in FrameMaker 10. If you pull down the Edit menu and start reading from the top, you'll find Undo, Redo, History and then new Repeat command. Its job is simply to repeat your last activity. This includes:   Type text. Paste. Delete. Apply a character format.

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Offering Valuable Training to Job-Hopping Millennials? Consider a Contract First

Mindflash

Millennials have a growing reputation in the HR universe as serial job hoppers. Recent studies say the phenomenon isn’t actually limited to the young , but true or not, employers’ belief that their 20-something employees are liable to jump ship in a matter of months has significant effects. For one, it limits their willingness to shell out for training.

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Talking about blended learning – part 5 – in conclusion

Clive on Learning

Part 5 In the fifth and last part of this interview, I address two final questions: How would you summarise the blended learning design process? What guarantee is there that you'll end up with a solution that is both effective and efficient? Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Complete 43 min interview.

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Thumbs Down to Top Down Leadership

CLO Magazine

For most of the 20th century, leadership models were defined by paternal, hierarchical organizational structures. Influenced by several wars and the Great Depression, this pecking order was structured along military lines to establish control. People climbed the ranks in search of power with an even keener eye on money. But now employees, especially younger ones, are searching for genuine satisfaction and meaning from their work, not just financial compensation.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Updated Nielsen Stats on Mobile Phones

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Excellent new data hot off the nielsenwire blog. Okay.maybe it went up yesterday and I'm a day late, but its still good stuff. I'm actually, a little stunned that the number of smartphones in the U.S. is only 36%. I just thought it would be higher for some reason. What are your thoughts? Amplify’d from blog.nielsen.com Consumers and Mobile Apps in the U.S.: All About Android and Apple iOS Thirty-six percent of U.S. mobile consumers now have smartphones Consumers with Apple iOS (iPhone) and

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Engaging Technical eLearning – Tips on Design and Delivery

Vignettes Learning

[Please add your comments below] Engineer’s and Technical Writer’s View Oft entimes, my development team works to help clients convert technical traini ng into eLearning. An example is the Oracle HRIS and hardware training. The initial challenge is, “How do we make this boring content engaging?” Technical training programs are usually written by engineers who believe that users of their products just need to read the instructional guide.

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Mobile Trends 2020 Africa - hint: mLearn

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

If your view of the evolution of mobile devices is strictly focused on your friends and US media outlets, then you don't have a clue about the impact of mobile devices. Africa is taking advantage of mobility more profoundly than any other continent. There are many reasons why, but this slideshare is a great place to start. Its a fabulous collection of trends spotted by those who live there and follow technology stories.

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Questions from the CLO Executive Network

Jay Cross

Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief Learning Officer Network at Symantec’s offices in Mountain View on Wednesday. We talked of working smarter, the imperative to change, the ins and outs of informal learning, and why mobile learning is inevitable. Clark concluded our 90-minute opener by destroying myths about generational differences, brain-based learning, and learning styles.

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HIA Technologies Turns a New Chapter in Interactive Learning

HIA Technologies announces the launch of Qvio™️ interactive video platform for learner-driven, AI-enabled, education. Viewers get instant answers to their questions directly from videos, interrupting when needed, and getting an author-validated answer!

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What Belongs in a Scorecard?

CLO Magazine

This is an excellent question that comes up repeatedly. Many start with the available data and ask how they can use it in a scorecard. This is the wrong approach, as it proves challenging for those fortunate enough to have data warehouses full of information. Answers to two just questions should guide the selection of data and the construction of the scorecard: What is the purpose of the scorecard?

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Implementing working smarter: top-down or bottom-up?

Jay Cross

At yesterday’s meeting of the CLO Executive Network, people asked whether it’s better to start at the top or the organization or to grow things from the bottom. It depends. We’ve seen grass-roots efforts go viral and spread from humble beginnings to enterprise-wide collaborative network. We’ve also seen mandates from senior executives kick off powerful in-house social networks.

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My LMS vendor just got acquired by another company! Now what?!

eLearning Weekly

The landscape of learning management system (LMS) vendors is constantly changing. There have been dozens of acquisitions in the past decade, including a big one this week. This can be a scary time if your organization happens to be using an LMS that gets acquired by or merged with another company. After all, you’ve most likely invested thousands of dollars and many hours getting it set up and configured to work well.

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Working Smarter in the 21st Century

Jay Cross

Three-minute video explains why old approaches to learning and development no longer work.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.