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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. Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. Go take a peek. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina.

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How to Make Video: Before You Start

TechSmith Camtasia

Can’t see the embedded Video? Watch the Before Starting Video on YouTube. How to Make Video: Getting Started. Your first video might be one of the toughest videos you ever make. Before we get to some ideas to help you make a video, let’s get something out of the way. It will be awesome.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content. Properly d.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices

Dashe & Thomson

Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content. Properly d.

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Mobile Enables Informal Learning

Upside Learning

I am not particularly stuck on the exact ratios (and there is huge debate on that here and here ) but agree that Informal is a big chunk of all learning – which should not be left to chance. Source: Bersin & Associates | Copyright®2011 Bersin & Associates. All rights reserved. Used with Permission).

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My job was not to tell; my job was stimulate thinking, encourage exploration, make associations, and help guide my learners. Try using a flow chart or visual mind map of the content to introduce creativity and make associations — perhaps even let the students select the order in which you discuss the information. Properly d.

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Effective Employee Training on a Budget: How Small and Medium Businesses Can Leverage a Learning Management System (LMS)

AbaraLMS

One cost-effective solution is leveraging a Learning Management System (LMS) to train employees. They have to ensure that their budgets for training are needs-based and following the business requirements, their training programs need to have a balanced cost to effectiveness ratio.