Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 20, 2014

On the first day of school, my American History teacher offered the class a nearly impossible challenge. As we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I’m reminded of a learning experience I had junior year of high school. He said, “If anyone can memorize Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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JULY 23, 2013

The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer A few years ago I decided to take boxing classes where I had the pleasure of being yelled [.] “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. Skill Development change management learning'

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

by Paul on April 20, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Informal Learning , social learning Over the last few months I’ve discussed with my brother, a professor at Bethel University here in Minneapolis, how to incorporate social media into his classes.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 10, 2017

In his new book, The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work! But what most of us don’t realize is that Gunn’s off-the-cuff and informal feedback method comes from his 30-plus years as an educator and administrator at Parson’s School of Design.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

Already, the first classes of DNs have entered the workforce. While the increasing difficulty of engaging Digital Natives in a way that is meaningful to them is still mainly an issue for the school system, it will soon be an issue for corporate training professionals, as well. Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 11, 2011

A common noun represents a class of entities (for example, city, planet, person or corporation). Social learning refers to a class of learning, which includes wikis, blogs, screen sharing, podcasting, photo sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative working, social networking, etc.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Instead, instructors can deliver lectures via YouTube as homework, and then spend the next day in class helping their pupils work through sticking-points. Using this tool, instructors can track in real-time the progress being made by every individual in the class.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I think of myself as a college student, with five or six classes per semester and final exams ahead. How might my life be richer if I were reminded from time to time about the books and art and music I was exposed to in my humanities and literature classes? Idealistic, yes.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class. What is measured doesn’t seem to be what companies are interested in.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Bookwhen.com This online registration system proved its worth a thousand times recently when we had to scratch plans for a learning management system (LMS) at the last minute, after the client had to pare back the budget on a series of instructor-led training classes being rolled out to 3000 employees at multiple locations.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Bookwhen.com This online registration system proved its worth a thousand times recently when we had to scratch plans for a learning management system (LMS) at the last minute, after the client had to pare back the budget on a series of instructor-led training classes being rolled out to 3000 employees at multiple locations.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

A basic course which exceeds four hours in duration is generally too long to keep the attention of a typical learner, and it’s expensive – time spent in class is time away from work. Blend Your “Content-Heavy” Courses. Divide what they need to “know” and “do” into a blended learning experience.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Reaction: The most important point is whether the training had an impact: according to Cathy, “70% of the players said that they were looking forward to discussing the game in class the next day, and instructors reported that the activity ‘prompted the majority of the discussion’ and encouraged soldiers to share their own experiences.”

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Reaction: The most important point is whether the training had an impact: according to Cathy, “70% of the players said that they were looking forward to discussing the game in class the next day, and instructors reported that the activity ‘prompted the majority of the discussion’ and encouraged soldiers to share their own experiences.”

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

In addition, the activity was not considered to be a waste of either the students’ time or learning time.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 31, 2011

He also wants lectures to become homework and teacher tutoring to occur during class time. Anyone could learn at their own pace in their own way: in an internship, as an entrepreneur, or at home on the Internet. Then, everyone, no matter how they were educated, would be equal before the evaluation.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

At the very beginning of any class or training session find out who your learners are — what is their background and level of knowledge and experience with the topic? Why are they in this training session? Explain to them what they need to understand and why.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

First, a standard eLearning training course can be started immediately , there is no need to wait for the next scheduled class. eLearning is a smart decision in this case for a couple of reasons.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 6, 2011

Founded in 2007 by former Princeton Review Teacher of the Year, Farb Nivi, Grockit seeks to use game and social network based learning to provide a fun environment for students studying for the SAT or the GMAT, at a more affordable price than many traditional test-prep classes. Based on the review, it looks like they’re pulling it off.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

In the digital world we learn by doing, watching, and experiencing… not by taking a class or reading a manual. The speed of light, for example, is probably not going to change… The twenty-first centry, however, belongs to the tacit. Without the boundary set by the assignment there would be no medium for growth.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 13, 2012

Video training takes the benefits of Instructor-Led training classes – watching the instructor and seeing the examples work – and combines them with what’s good about “How to” books – the affordability and portability.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

After all, that’s where they’ll be going when they forget much of what they learned in your ILT class. You can certainly use Powerpoint or any other supporting tool for training delivery, but be sure that your learners spend plenty of time learning material straight out of the performance support tool.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 21, 2011

I acted in and/or directed over 75 plays, in both academic and professional theatres in the Midwest and on the west coast, won awards in both disciplines, taught classes, and was moderately successful at supporting myself in a very tough industry.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 14, 2011

I studied and worked as a stage director and taught acting classes in my younger years. I realize now that my experiences directing plays and teaching undergraduate acting classes at the University of California-Irvine provided me with some unique insights in regard to this brain rule. …and, Where is the bathroom?

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 13, 2012

In defense of the nameless, travel was necessarily a huge factor in the case of the week-long class. Not a single person who heard the monkey story in one of my classes got the assessment question about importance of contract type wrong. You have to work with what you’ve got.). The story apparently stuck.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

These tasks are essential to any business, but when time and resources are limited at a small change management firm like Dashe & Thomson, they become vital.

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

These tasks are essential to any business, but when time and resources are limited at a small change management firm like Dashe & Thomson, they become vital.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 2, 2011

I have been in classes in which people needed to move from group to group. I question whether people can learn better if they combine all the different learning styles if some people learn somatically, some learn visually, some aurally, and some intellectually. Non-somatic learners were extremely hostile about even standing up.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 9, 2018

By combining learning opportunities in class or online with the implementation of a Performance Support System , we can improve on-the-job performance with quick and accessible resources at the moment of need. We know that learning programs are most effective when they extend beyond a single training event.

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