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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. I argued that they were both dead wrong. Properly d.

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Learning to Learn from Evaluation of Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

The Kirkpatricks have four levels, the Phillips have ROI, and Brinkerhoff has the Success Case Method. Each approach to evaluation of training has something to contribute to assessing the impact of formal training on employee learning. The real value is in organizational learning from evaluation.

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Learning and Development Glossary

Petra Mayer

Devised by Ebbinghaus, the forgetting curve is an influential memory model wherein it shows how learned information slips out of memory with time, if not retained. It suggests that one should revisit the information learned sooner rather than later. A job aid provides information on how to perform a task or a job.

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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

The crisply written Adult Learning: Linking Theory and Practice covers all the fundamentals. From traditional learning theories and motivation learning to how the digital age has changed adult learning. Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Training Evaluation by James D. Kirkpatrick and Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick.

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Building a Performance Ecosystem

CLO Magazine

Survival requires continual innovation, and at the core is learning faster than everyone else. Learning leaders should facilitate this learning to optimize outcomes. It’s time for the next step, to couple individual solutions into a coherent workscape, which Jay Cross identified in his book Informal Learning.

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Top 60 eLearning Posts for October 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Flying around in VirtualU: Sense of space is important in virtual learning environments. 5 Steps to Enterprise Social Learning , October 13, 2010 Step 1 – Strategize : There is no one “right” Social Learning strategy, and there is no one right way to develop one. Informal learning doesn’t provide that.

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Free learning & development webinars for March 2017

Limestone Learning

Learn directly from Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick, creators of the New World Kirkpatrick Model, how to start any training program right, so that value is built in and can effectively be demonstrated when it is complete. It will also examine trends driving the use of video, and how you can tap them within your business.

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