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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

Dashe & Thomson

If you question whether organizations can succeed by treating employees like members of an improv theater troupe, just look at Google – where employees are encouraged to spend one day a week working on “own” projects. As it turns out, this practice has produced more than half of Google’s current offerings, including Gmail.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Developed a course on social networking for business. Will teach with blogs and a wiki. Using the tools to teach the content–mostly avoiding the LMS. Use online library databases to research social networking. Many businesses consider time on social networking sites wasted, but not all.

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What Copywriting Can Teach Us About Writing for an Audience

Association eLearning

Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn. Share this on Google+. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Do your best to make your content easy to consume, engaging, and useful, and you will stand a much better chance of that content doing it’s job and educating your reader. Tweet This! Pin this to Pinterest. Send via Email.

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The Four Stages of Learning

Association eLearning

In this stage the learner is able to relate to learners in stages 1-4 enough to teach them. Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn. Share this on Google+. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Some theorists believe there is a fifth stage as well — “conscious competence of unconscious competence.” Tweet This!

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Game Based Learning: Is It Appropriate For My Association?

Association eLearning

This post is derived from The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell, who teaches at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Teaching others is one of best ways learners can master content, themselves. Share this on Facebook. Share this on LinkedIn. Share this on Google+. Tweet This!

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator.

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Performance - Collaboration - Social Network Analysis - eLearning Hot List

Tony Karrer

World Part 2 - Social Enterprise Blog , June 6, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. Browse eLearning Content