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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Toni is right when she says that this failure in learning is not the fault of the disconnected IT pro but that of company leadership. 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. Properly d. All Rights Reserved.

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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Not Everyone is a Social Customer by Paul on February 11, 2011 in Development Tools , customer service , social learning A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about the need to train your clients on the various methods of…training.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Trust me…trying to train folks on a software package that they will neither need nor use is an exercise in frustration for everyone involved, not to mention a waste of time and money. Suddenly, the manager must learn to trust his people on another level. Terrifying! Properly d.

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Experiential learning

Learning with e's

This is number 7 in my blog series on major learning theories. My plan is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of their theories, and how each can be applied in education. In the last post we examined the work of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi on Flow Theory. 2011) Democracy and Education.

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The Death of the Traditional Web: Implications for Self-Directed Learning

Dashe & Thomson

Per-person consumption of traditional Web content fell by 3 percent between March 2010 and March 2011 in terms of minutes. Thus, people not only want to hear from others what they should be learning about, they also want to be reassured that someone they are familiar with and trust has “vetted” the information to begin with.

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Awesome insights into working smarter

Jay Cross

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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The Changing Nature of Workplace Learning

Learnnovators

In addition, tacit knowledge flows best in trusted networks. This trust also promotes individual autonomy and can become a foundation for organizational learning, as knowledge is freely shared. Without trust, few people are willing to share their knowledge.

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