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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 Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components.

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

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Allow them to discover information in bite-sized portions through self-directed activities such as eLearning, and then follow-up with a workshop, discussion group, open lab, or other opportunity to apply the new information. Don’t be afraid to let your learners be creative and help define the ways in which they achieve the course objectives.

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. Since I became an active Twitter user a few months ago, the application has grown on me to the point where it’s now far-and-away my favorite social media tool.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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To avoid this problem, companies must build significant financial and human resources into ERP project plans for communications, training, and other organizational change management activities. Because the return on investment for these activities can be difficult to quantify, it is often overlooked. Properly d.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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View all posts by Paul → ← Kirkpatrick Revisited Embracing Innovation in Learning → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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

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So I say to you all, friends with whom I dine and otherwise, do not support your company’s efforts to stifle your use of the internet, but actively lobby for your online freedoms instead. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Companies need to address more than just 20% of learning. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

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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. I discovered the teachable moment occurs in the minds of my learners, not mine. Learners as Teachers.