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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

The New York Times recently featured a fascinating article by Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin that details the shift in thinking within the military that may soon take it to the forefront of virtual training. What’s more, they don’t just mean by saving money or time (although their games are doing that, too). They mean by saving lives.

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

Dashe & Thomson

As most of us in the adult learning community already know, up to this point most workplaces have seen two types of learning: formal learning through training, and informal learning through experience, conversation or random events which, according to research, accounts for about 80% of total learning.

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

Dashe & Thomson

But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. We understand that social media, and at a higher level social learning, are crucial to course design moving forward.

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

Dashe & Thomson

But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it. We understand that social media, and at a higher level social learning, are crucial to course design moving forward.

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How to make learners fall in love with training

Litmos

You'll need some techniques to rise above the noise and distraction of multi-screen environments and break through the mix of non-stop communication platforms from email to social to IM, but again, you can not only get learning on the radar, but also make it a priority. Watch the webinar now > Happy Valentine's Day!

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Top 5 Online Certification Courses in Management

Learning Routes

This specific Learning Routes article will provide an overview of the Best Certification Courses in India to help job seekers develop in-demand skills and land jobs in 2021. Manager, IM/IT Sr. Certificate Courses in India in 2021 – Keeping up with India’s evolving trends. Business Analyst, Talent management consultant, Jr.

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It’s Time To Focus On Remote Workforce Management

WhatFix

Negative blurring of home and work boundaries ( according to researchers from Cardiff University and UCL Institute of Education). Also, an HBR article talks of a research conducted on 1100 employees, where remote workers were the ones that felt most left out. Finally, set and communicate realizable work goals/expectations.