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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

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The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. Informal Workplace Learning. At Upside Learning, we have been doing our bit in spreading knowledge.

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Do We Learn Differently Now?

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Our ability to store and transfer extra-genetic information has pretty much remained the same, bound by language itself, and simply because of biological boundaries imposed by our physiology. While you hold that thought, it’s good to think that the technology is on the cusp of providing an ‘infinite’ amount of information.

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Case Study on Branching Scenarios

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This is a classic situation where such scenarios provide safe practice before it matters, keeping skills active for an uncertain time of deployment. Thus, it needs to be kept active. With accolades and positive feedback affirming its efficacy, scenario-based learning stands as a powerful tool to maintain and activate crucial skills.

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Case Study 2: Branching Scenarios

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This is a classic situation where such scenarios provide safe practice before it matters, keeping skills active for an uncertain time of deployment. Thus, it needs to be kept active. With accolades and positive feedback affirming its efficacy, scenario-based learning stands as a powerful tool to maintain and activate crucial skills.

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Four Steps to Deeper Learning

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Too often, I see well-intentioned courses focusing on information or knowledge, e.g., awareness. Unfortunately, we’re not, and we don’t change behavior just on the basis of new information. If you see learning that’s focused on information, not on behaviors, you’re seeing learning that’s not sufficiently deep.

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Microlearning Case Study: Spaced Learning

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Subsequent information gives details, and then the opportunity to practice. The awareness was triggered by curiosity over the outcomes of some emotional situations, and direct information presentation. This was followed by information on the outcomes of an action and steps an individual could take.

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Microlearning is None of These Things!

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To reiterate, this is frequently the best solution, making the information available in the world. Our thinking is based upon patterns of activation across the myriad of neurons that constitute our brain. A client once told me that their ‘How to’ videos to accompany their product were the most visited resources on their support site.