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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. Leaders have to be willing to put some money behind training programs and they have to trust the statistics validating informal and social learning principles.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 70% of workplace knowledge is learned informally (a statistic that is frequently referenced in the learning industry). I am currently the Director of Instructional Design and eLearning for Dashe & Thomson.In Because video can be the virtual “over-the-partition” colleague. All Rights Reserved.

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GBL 2010 – Recap (Day 2 Part 1): Serious Games

Upside Learning

First up was Mary Mathews, Strategy and Business Development Director, TruSim. No wonder that in trials they could see statistically significant better results in trainees exposed to this solution as compared to those undergoing the traditional training. I headed straight to the session titled “Getting Serious about Games”.

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Impact and ROI of Learning: Worth Pursuing or Not?

CLO Magazine

The primary reason is that senior corporate leaders like the CEO and CFO want to see it and so should the department head and program director. In other cases, statistical analysis like regression may be used to estimate the isolated impact from the training. ” Comment below or email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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What it means that MS LifeScience Award Goes to 3D Virtual Conference Design

Kapp Notes

Event By now you've probably already heard that the Microsoft Life Sciences Innovation Award 2010 has gone to a project that uses a 3-D virtual environment to hold a virtual scientific poster session. life sciences industry solutions director, Microsoft. “By 4) Corporate monies are about to be thrown behind 3D in a BIG WAY.

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How National Grid Measures Leadership

CLO Magazine

To understand and improve the impact FoL had on its workforce and the business, the company partnered with consulting company Capital Analytics in 2010 to deploy a business impact and optimization study. and the U.K. The study considered National Grid’s performance review system as a baseline to track changes in performance over time.

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

Using training data and a hyper-powerful mathematical system, generative AI is able to understand a complex query and statistically predict the best possible response, whether it involves solving a mathematical or scientific problem, coding, or producing text, image, audio or video. But in a way, the same can be said of our brains.