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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties. less big companies, for more than 20 years. I like to read, make films and play guitar (in private).

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Resources from Training 2013 Conference and Expo #trg13

Kapp Notes

Baylor and Kim (2005) report that in multiple studies with avatars of different gender and race, evidence indicates that students learned significantly more and had significantly greater motivation when working with one motivator and a different expert avatar as compared to working with the just the one mentor avatar. Reference: Baylor, A.

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Training: Spaced Learning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

    In an article first reported in Scientific American in 2005 , R. Douglas   In a previous article I wrote about Knowledge Guru and the use of repetition in eLearning. The article explored if the simple act of repetition is the key to learning. training initiatives? the opposite.

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APHG Migration Articles

ProProfs

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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

However, outside of a these few specific cases, credible sources will have an author clearly visible on the article page. The more an online article is based on opinion or original research, the more important it is to have an author. Or in 2005, before Facebook became open to the public?

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Weekly Bookmarks (1-2-2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Four Steps to Effective Virtual Classroom Training by Ruth Clark : Learning Solutions Magazine. Four-step model by Ruth Clark on designing for synchronous online training via Elluminate etc. Better than your average tag cloud–interactive, colorful, shaped like clouds, etc. tags: visualization tagging tools. Posted from Diigo.

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How an eLearning Conference Changed My Life

Learning Dev Camp

The good thing about being in the library is that the catalog would get you to a section of books and journals all on the same subject and once in the stacks you would see all the related books and articles. In 2005, with an iPhone giveaway, I found an eLearning conference, eLearning DevCon, set in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah.