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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 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. In dollar figures, spending is minimal.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings? The problems facing struggling Fortune 500 companies are often similarly complex, yet few if any are utilizing a crowd-sourcing model. The Department of Defense disagrees with you.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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And every company has agreed to use “Level 1: Reaction,” or?as Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. What is measured doesn’t seem to be what companies are interested in. as it has come to be known—the “Smile Sheet.”

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

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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. Companies need to address more than just 20% of learning.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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Obviously, these changes have a potentially large impact on people working in the organization. Let’s say a company is centralizing accounting functions like Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. less big companies, for more than 20 years. Instead, tell them where to get the information they need, when they need it.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

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How will organizations get them to adopt new business processes, procedures, or software systems when necessary? If you question whether organizations can succeed by treating employees like members of an improv theater troupe, just look at Google – where employees are encouraged to spend one day a week working on “own” projects.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

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I said in my last post that Kirkpatrick’s four levels were all about the training itself rather than how the training affects organizations. You can draw on the “before-and-after” business and human resource metrics that are readily available in any company. That’s all we usually need, he says.