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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

An excellent article from Cross Pollination Media, titled “ Are ‘Digital Natives’ Better Suited for Mobile 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. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning).

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How Digital Badges are Driving a Positive Transformation in Corporate Learning  

Origin Learning

First, a bit of history; digital badges trace their origin to early 2011 when the Mozilla Foundation started the project and in the subsequent year published a framework that would become the global standard in designing and issuing global badges known as the ‘Open Standards Framework’.

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The ongoing work of learning standards

Litmos

And then the IMS (an initiative of Educause before being spun out as an independent effort) started creating standards, as did the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the major body in the US responsible for computing standards. There are background issues as well. Thus, CMI 5 is the next generation of SCORM.

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Open Office, Work Culture, and Productivity

The Performance Improvement Blog

Fast Company editors Jason Feifer and Anjali Mullany take up this debate in a FC interview for an article titled, “Two Cube Dwellers Argue Over Open Offices. Their differing views on the matter do an excellent job of identifying the issues involved in the open-office controversy. Instead of IM''ing each other, we''re talking in person.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Half of Companies Blocking Facebook

Learning Visions

This August 21 article posted by Sharon Gaudin in Information Week reports that Half of Companies are Blocking Facebook: "Employers are increasingly blocking access to Facebook because theyre concerned about the time wasted and the information leaked when workers use social networks on company time." And Im in complete agreement.

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It’s Time To Focus On Remote Workforce Management

WhatFix

To understand what steps you need to take to ensure ‘work as usual’, in light of the sudden change in work patterns, it would be pertinent to first identify issues faced by remote workers that act as a real productivity sap. Top Remote Workforce Management Challenges. Source: Buffer Survey.