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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg. Go take a peek. All Rights Reserved.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you. So how do we best provide our learners of today with the best possible support and encouragement? We blend it. Don’t Throw Out the Baby with the Books.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. Often conference organizers forget to provide the full name of the organization and an e-mail contact address. link] December 13-15, 2010 Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA), 2 nd , Taichung, Taiwan.

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My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2011

Jane Hart

This is the 5th year I have been building a Top 100 Tools for Learning list (based on the Top 10 Tools contributions of learning professionals worldwide), so I thought it would be interesting to compare my choices in the first year I ran the activity in 2007, with my choices today. In 2011 I now use WordPress to power my website.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

by Paul on April 13, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning Last week my girlfriend and I ate dinner at Darbar Indian Grill in Uptown Minneapolis with another couple (good food, but overpriced), and we got on the topic of surfing the net on the job. As Harold Jarche states, “Change is continuous, so learning must be continuous.”

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

We need the motivation that learning with others provides in numerous ways. I think we need to provide learners with some “social anchors&# in these types of eLearning programs to help facilitate the social learning process. I think feedback like that in a self-study eLearning situation could provide the same type of motivation.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

This month's LCBQ is What are your Predictions and Plans for 2011? Tony Bates - eLearning Outlook for 2011 1. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning. We would welcome lots of discussion. Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 The Future is Mobile 3. More Multimedia 5.