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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week. Properly d.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning).

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Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ | Social.

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In my opinion, it’s not that providing on-demand learning and performance solutions is a new idea. What is new, however, is the ratio of on-demand solutions to more traditional training offerings. It has been around for all of my 15+ years as an instructional designer and training developer, and goes back much further than that.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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

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I’ve heard plenty of people say, “I love to learn,” though. JIT Learning Society If I take a step back and try to think of the most obvious way the Internet has changed my life, I would say it’s changed how I access information. In other words, it’s changed the way I learn. I know I haven’t. Properly d.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices

Dashe & Thomson

I’ve heard plenty of people say, “I love to learn,” though. JIT Learning Society If I take a step back and try to think of the most obvious way the Internet has changed my life, I would say it’s changed how I access information. In other words, it’s changed the way I learn. I know I haven’t. Properly d.