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

Dashe & Thomson

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? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew?

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Junky Informal Learning

Jay Cross

One fellow liked his job because it fix his life as a musician. For seven years, he has worked at Junk six months and then taken off to play music for six months. ” The other fellow recently graduated from Cal Berkeley; he was happy to have any job. “How do you learn what’s going on?

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The Temporary Staffing Revolution | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. Many consulting firms in our industry become too niche and lose out on work they can easily provide but do a poor job of marketing. Business confidence is still extremely low. Properly d.

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Peer-to-peer learning is the most important part of training, whether on the basketball court or in the office. This facet of training exists throughout the entire blended learning process but is most necessary while on the job. The same should be demanded at work. Properly d.

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LXP – Don’t believe the Hype

eLearning 24-7

Then Heavy focus around skills with a specific way tapping into playlists or channels (we are talking a lot of skills capabilities – tied to job roles or not – either way, content played a huge role) Now A lot of systems, LMSs included have this same functionality, heck – there are plenty who have surpassed. Now Mixed bag.

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This is Your Brain on eLearning/Online Learning

TOPYX LMS

eLearning expert Christopher Pappas said, “It’s been proven through multiple research studies and surveys that multimedia in eLearning , such as images and video, not only engage the learners but also help them to actually remember what they’ve learned. The more multimedia is used in corporate learning, the better for the brain.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): iPhone: The Music Video (NY Times)

Mark Oehlert

We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay and check this one as well e-Places to visit copyright game studies anthropology mobile learning e-learning things you should read stat counter View My Stats kaboodle Oehlerts Book.

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