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Top 5 eLearning Skills for 2011

eLearning Weekly

What are the skills you need to land an elearning job? Working in elearning taps into many skill sets. Designing or developing elearning requires experience in training and project management as much as audio and video production. I focus here on what I think are the top skills for elearning now, in 2011.

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

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. After reading this, I started thinking about this new LinkedIn utility I recently installed. At the conference, a representative from Raytheon Corporation spoke about a study they had conducted among their vast employee population.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Return of the (Digital) Native by Jim on March 25, 2011 in mobile learning In recent years, we’ve all heard a lot about digital natives. Already, the first classes of DNs have entered the workforce.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. Go take a peek. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina. Going back to Cammy’s latest post, select companies are taking the leap and already seeing the reward.