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Instructional Systems Designer Tells Us His Solutions for Retaining Employee Knowledge

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Not too long ago when I was a training manager in the Air Force, I met strong resistance when I tried to convince leaders to allow various courses to convert to online learning. Being open-minded is the first step. It seems silly now because online learning has become the standard instead of the exception.

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I Don’t Care What You Had For Lunch: Finding Professional Value in Twitter

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I have not looked back since and now consider myself something of a Twitter convert, leaving most of my colleagues far behind in tweet volume and number of followers over the last several months. Go figure that the most resistant of us would become the most prolific tweeter.

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More on Re-evaluating Evaluation – Jack Phillips and ROI

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Level 5 is developed by collecting Level 4 data, converting the data to monetary values, and comparing those values with the cost of the program in order to provide the return on training investment. Convert Data to Monetary Benefits. This is what you need to do to convert the hard and soft data to monetary values: Step 5.

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Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. | Social Learning Blog

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As Dr. Medina showed us with some exciting research, repetition is one of the keys to converting short-term memories into longer term ones. This illustrates one of the quirks of our short-term memory, and brain rule #5: Repeat to remember, pretty plainly.

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Performance Support Tools From Quick Reference Guides To Mobile Apps

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Once a document has been converted to PDF format, interactive features such as buttons, videos, attached files of supporting information, and more can be added. With these capabilities, you’re able to take complex information and convert it into a document the learner can navigate themselves to find the information they need.

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Mobile Learning: CHANGE YOUR WAYS OR YOU ARE DOOOOOMED!

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A few examples: South Korea has a plan to convert all of its elementary education materials from print to digital by 2015. Worldwide, countries are leveraging mobile technology to increase literacy rates, enhance learning with more engaging content, or even to overhaul their educational systems. The government plans to invest $2.4