Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 21, 2011

Early indications of this same paradigm shift can be seen in the learning and education arenas. The problem in executing this shift is not in setting up these new learning environments and communities, but rather in embracing the change. Suddenly, the manager must learn to trust his people on another level. Terrifying!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 133

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?”

Social Networks 154

Social Networks Sound Social Learning Blended Learning 154

Jane Hart

MAY 20, 2011

A new report by @ quinnovator for the ELearning Guild: Mobile Learning: Landscape and Trends [link] #. Social learning for collaborative work by @ hjarche [link] #. See the emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list after 150 contributions; YouTube is catching up on Twitter! Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Doc eLearning Guild eLearning Consultant 133

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. 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.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Social Learning Blended 141

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

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. Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In?

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 154

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? Academia needs a coherent learning theory, or set of theories, that provides guidance for building the road system so the cars can operate. Trent gets it!

Social Networks 124

Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 124

Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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.

Social Networks 124

Social Networks Social Social Learning Blended Learning 124

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2011

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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Blended Learning Social Learning Social Social Networks 145

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

Level 2: Learning. He says unless one or more of the learning objectives?knowledge, with a post-test to measure learning for the entire program. Tom Gram, in the February 17, 2011 post on his Performance X Design blog, says that our training programs are working when we can point to evidence and linkages in performance terms.

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Kirkpatrick Social Learning Social Networks Blogging 168

Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. 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?

Social Networks 160

Social Networks Blended Learning Diversity Training Games 160

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? I started thinking about this during a program on Accelerated Learning at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (MNISPI).

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 140

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? Because video is, apparently, a perfect manifestation of social learning theory. Here’s a quick primer on video as a learning tool from Learning Solutions Magazine.

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Social Learning Social Networks Social Blended Learning 134

Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? by Andrea on February 23, 2011 in social learning The other night I attended a lecture at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Social Networks 181

Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 181

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 22, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? by Paul on March 23, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Opening weekend of March Madness is over. Yes, it hurts just typing it.

Blended Learning 145

Blended Learning Social Networks Blended Social 145

Jane Hart

MAY 9, 2011

42 Fresh Facts About Twitter & Facebook… | Bit Rebels [link] via @ bitrebels #. 2011 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award Up to 6 prizes to be won by teams & indivs – closing date Thurs 26 May [link] #. Powered by Twitter Tools. Five Best Apps to Send Group Text Messages on the Cheap [link] #.

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Twitter MySpace Social Media Social Networks 133

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. What I hadn’t stopped to fully consider is why I would do that.

Social Networks 124

Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning Games 124

Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Of course, the person “next to you” might just as often be consulted via email or other online tool, but it doesn’t change this fact: the amount of workplace learning done in formal training sessions is a tiny fraction of of the learning that takes place one-on-one, between coworkers. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.]

Social Networks 124

Social Networks Blended Learning Social Wiki 124

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 28, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

Social Media 124

Social Media Social Networks Blended Learning Network 124

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.

Social Networks 140

Social Networks Blended Learning Personal Personalization 140

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 29, 2011

Rather, it has to be learned through experience. Now, experiential learning is great. I think it is safe to say that anyone who has touched a hot stove (no matter how many times your Mom said not to) learned after only one experience not to do it again. They can’t really explain how they know, they just do.

Social Networks 145

Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Delicious 145

Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Hey, That’s Social Learning! by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

Social Learning 100

Social Learning Social Networks Blended Learning Social 100

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

Use the functional designs, to-be process diagrams, and test scripts to take a stab at learning objectives, an outline, and draft content before you meet with your SMEs. Start a page for each learning topic and add draft learning objectives and content. That way you learn as your SMEs learn.

Social Networks 113

Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning Blogging 113

Jane Hart

JUNE 3, 2011

How to Create a Successful Twitter Chat [link] via @ B2Community #. Noone can create informal learning & no system can manage it You can create/manage information, but that's q different! Top story: How the Library of Congress is building the Twitter archive – O'Reilly Radar [link] , see more [link] #.

Twitter 172

Twitter Library Informal Learning System 172

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

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.

Google Docs 219

Google Docs Tools PointeCast Skype 219

Jane Hart

MAY 11, 2011

The Fresh Air Fund is in need of host families for this summer of 2011 [link] #. Share&Learn: my new collaboration platform where members can share & learn from one another both informally & formally [link] #. Powered by Twitter Tools. The C4LPT Daily is out! A vision of the social organization [link] #.

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Twitter Evernote Lectora Communities of Practice 113

Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Hey, That’s Social Learning! by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning Social 100

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2011

I like to imagine performance support as an Exobrain … (and, of course, that I am one of the smart people in learning … guess I will have to ask Simon about that.) Web-based learning portals are the ultimate brain food — extending brain power by positioning learning and How-To reference material close to the job, 24/7.

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Social Networks Brain Blended Learning 100

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? Academia needs a coherent learning theory, or set of theories, that provides guidance for building the road system so the cars can operate. Trent gets it!

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning Social 100

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 5, 2011

So what did this teach me about learning? Collaborative learning? When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. So now, I resolve to promote interactive, “do-it” training whenever feasible. Playing to your audience , perhaps?

Social Networks 113

Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Delicious 113

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator.

Social Networks 126

Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 126

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? by Jim on March 8, 2011 in social learning I’ll be honest. Just good, wholesome, social learning knowledge. What’s the cause of all this attention?

Social Networks 134

Social Networks Blended Learning Social Market 134

Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

If we separate the human aspect of social networking from the technology, we can learn a lot more about the power of networks – not just from today’s pundits, but from many years of sociological research on the topic. It’s not enough for people within functional areas (clusters) to connect. More about me here.

Social Networks 180

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 180

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Don’t forget to hear The Truth About Social Learning [link] with @ janebozarth #. Learning the game of social media – FT.com – [link] #. RT @ EdenTreeToolkit : Jane Hart @ C4PLT talks about working and learning smarter ahead of her # LEARNINGLIVE session: [link] #. Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Screencast Social Media Mac 140

Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I’ve just spent the last few days overhauling the Learning Tools Directory. Many have become much more social, e.g. with links to Twitter, Facebook or using their own social features. Over the last year there has been quite a lot of change one way or another in terms of tools.

Tools 237

Tools DimDim Open Source Version 237

Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Temporary Staffing Revolution by Paul on December 28, 2010 in Temporary staffing A few weeks ago, I grabbed coffee with a long-time family friend that happens to be a training developer. Properly d.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning Blogging 100

Jane Hart

JANUARY 17, 2012

As you will know I finalised the 5th Annual survey of Top 100 Tools for Learning in the middle of November 2011, and at that time placed the presentation on Slideshare. You will also know, Twitter topped the list again for the 3rd year running, although in 2008 it was only ranked 11th and in … Read the rest.

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Tools Slideshare Twitter Survey 223