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JULY 12, 2013

My colleague, Andrea May came back from ASTD International Conference & Exposition (ICE), which was held in Dallas in May of this year, raving about a presentation on “Evaluating Informal Learning.” She knows that I have been blogging about learning evaluation for the past couple of years—mostly Kirkpatrick but also [.]

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APRIL 19, 2017

Then came the growth of associations, conferences, and trade shows. Networking is not a new concept. It used to mean the power lunch, golfing with colleagues, or drinks after work. And now networking has changed dramatically with online resources like LinkedIn and Facebook. Networking” used to be a buzzword; today it’s almost cliché.

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APRIL 1, 2013

A bunch of us at Dashe & Thomson had a great time a couple weeks ago when we attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference – an enormous event that one blogger dubbed the “digital Super Bowl.” There was too much great content to report on exhaustively, but one session [.]

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AUGUST 30, 2017

It’s been the topic du jour of articles, webinars, conference break-out sessions, office meetings, and any other resource you can name. by Shane Lueck. Training needs to be engaging. What else is new? At this point, that concept is exhausted.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

It’s one of the hottest topics in the blogosphere and at conferences (see Barbara Camm’s highly trafficked posts on evaluation), and yet it remains extremely elusive. Training evaluation appears to be the Holy Grail of the L&D world. From Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, to Michael Scriven to Jack Phillips [.]

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JULY 12, 2013

My colleague, Andrea May came back from ASTD International Conference & Exposition (ICE), which was held in Dallas in May of this year, raving about a presentation on “Evaluating Informal Learning.” She knows that I have been blogging about learning evaluation for the past couple of years—mostly Kirkpatrick but also [.]

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Informal Learning Evalution Informal Kirkpatrick 162

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APRIL 14, 2016

It’s been discussed for years, presented at conferences, and become the subject of books… The post Three Reasons We Need 70:20:10 Now appeared first on Dashe & Thomson. In each case, I was surprised that these experienced learning practitioners seem to have only recently begun looking for ways to implement 70:20:10.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

If you’ve heard suggestions in the conference room about needing video in 2017, you’ll find inspiration below. The power of the moving visual communicates and captivates in a way that simple text and images (clickable or not) fall short.

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JULY 4, 2011

Then, in March, I attended the Learning Solutions 2011 conference hosted by the eLearning Guild. Anyway, back to the Learning Solutions conference, my two biggest take aways were: How to use hash tags effectively to find and track topics that are important to me. More like choirs of angels sang. Strange how things work out sometimes.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

The eLearning Guild hosted an engaging, curiosity-inspiring conference focused on social learning. I’m not sure I would have seen the concert through the lens of social learning had I not attended DevLearn ’10 last month. It was at the concert, however, that I fully understood why I must pay attention to social learning.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

The eLearning Guild hosted an engaging, curiosity-inspiring conference focused on social learning. I’m not sure I would have seen the concert through the lens of social learning had I not attended DevLearn ’10 last month. It was at the concert, however, that I fully understood why I must pay attention to social learning.

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APRIL 21, 2011

This reminds me of a session I attended on emotional intelligence at the eLearning Guild ‘s Learning Solutions 2011 conference last month. But, if the manger or leader can embrace this innovation in learning, encouraging and expecting workers to do the same, the impact could be tremendous.

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JUNE 30, 2011

He is a recurring speaker at educational technology conferences. Vincent Flango is a PMI-certified government contracts manager for General Dynamics Information Technology and a senior Instructional Systems Designer. He can be reached through his LinkedIn profile or email at vflango@yahoo.com.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Financial Advisors do love to share and learn from each other, but they prefer to do the sharing in person at things such as conferences and events. Rob : Seems like a great opportunity for reps to share information – an internal wiki or portal. Shane : This is true. When it comes to web-based sharing vehicles, it’s a different story.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

. “The reason why gamification is so hot is that most people’s jobs are really freaking boring,” says Gabe Zichermann, organizer of the “Gamification Summit” conference held last month in New York. So far, the tactic has proved effective.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

. “The reason why gamification is so hot is that most people’s jobs are really freaking boring,” says Gabe Zichermann, organizer of the “Gamification Summit” conference held last month in New York. . So far, the tactic has proved effective.

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Games SAP IBM Gamification 150

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APRIL 14, 2011

by Andrea on April 15, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Informal Learning , Training Development , blended learning , eLearning , social learning Recently, I was lucky enough to attend a keynote speech by Dr. John Medina on his book Brain Rules at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions 2011 conference. We All Did.

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APRIL 10, 2017

by Shane Lueck. Anyone familiar with Tim Gunn knows that he does everything with a certain level of finesse. As the Emmy-winning mentor extraordinaire from Project Runway , viewers are well aware of his passionate, witty, and firm approach as a mentor to the designers.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

But, if you walked around any major industry conference and asked attendees or presenters the question, “What is the most effective method of corporate education?”, Don’t get me wrong, I think Instructor-Led Training has steadily become more under-valued since the world began to go eLearning crazy a decade ago or so.

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Blended Learning Compliance Training ILT Wikipedia 175

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JUNE 22, 2012

We in the learning industry talk about it a lot in conferences, and blog about it, but relatively few of us are doing anything substantial with mobile learning “on the ground.” In my last post I briefly mentioned my skepticism about the demand for mobile learning in the workplace.

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