E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). These components work in tandem with the LMS and system reports, which in turn comprise the core components of the Formal Learning Environment (FLE). We can have both.&#. Amen to that. But how do we bridge the gap?

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

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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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 11, 2011

To start answering these questions, we have to acknowledge that formal learning, as we know it today, will not be effective in the future. Instead, we will need to put the workers themselves in charge of their own learning. This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Freemium Three: Three Free Tools That Will Work Wonders For Your Next Training Project. Wrike.com Wrike is a tool that I’ve only recently come across, but it strikes me as being a very flexible project management resource.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Freemium Three: Three Free Tools That Will Work Wonders For Your Next Training Project. Wrike.com Wrike is a tool that I’ve only recently come across, but it strikes me as being a very flexible project management resource.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend No comments yet. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 28, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 2, 2011

Despite hefty price-tags for initial set up (running to $60,000 per physician in some cases), these babies hold the promise of extensive savings that will more than offset initial investment in the long term. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? The result? Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 21, 2011

If you think about the traditional model of corporate training, managers and leaders have control (sometimes way too much) over the formal training that their workers receive. In both cases, the managers had complete control over the training their workers did or didn’t get. It was for their own good after all. Yeah, right.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2011

In a recent post What Makes a Successful Community Manager? I think the community manager can also support and facilitate on-demand learning and performance and will be pivotal in it’s success. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend No comments yet. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

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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ID Reflections

MARCH 9, 2010

The definition of "unbooks" is similar to that of Informal Learning. Informal learning is never finished. Informal learning has room for multiple perceptions , sources of knowledge, collaboration. The first lies in the realm of Knowledge Management. It puts the learner back in control.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JANUARY 17, 2016

These e-learning efforts have taken all kind of shapes, blended learning, tutorials, games and apps. Most organizations also have a rich learning management system (LMS) with herein (self) developed materials appropriate to the particular training needs of the organization.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2011

Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Im a problem-solver and thoroughly enjoy helping clients succeed and look good. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? In my free time, I enjoy reading, medical lectures, belly dancing and regular visits to my massage therapist. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them. tool chest. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 22, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend No comments yet. Properly d.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Informal Learning: Are We Missing a HUGE Opportunity? with Bob Mosher of Learning Guide Solutions, presented by Massachusetts Chapter of ISPI and sponsored by Kineo. The performance support broker (manages the experience) of all of these things. This real-live event happened October 21 in Westford, MA.

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2010

I noticed that more than half of the requirements catered to managing classroom training. So, for organizations ‘migrating’ to eLearning (via an LMS) – is the LMS still about managing classroom training? Either way, its good business for LMSs that support the management of classroom training just like our LMS does.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Blog, including “Collaborative Learning Lessons from Wikipedia (and Small Insects)” and “The $2 Whiteboard Shows Power of Peer-to-Peer Learning”, while a core curriculum of base training material is essential to spark the learning process [.] Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? I finished my post a few weeks ago on Reevaluating Evaluation, I found out that Donald Kirkpatrick, the granddaddy of the Four Levels of Evaluation, was taking a [.] Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Because the world of technology, and for that matter the use of technology in training, is changing so rapidly, most business managers are unaware of the promising user adoption solutions coming to the forefront. We still must identify our clients’ needs, social or not, and tailor our change management and training to fit them.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? less big companies, for more than 20 years. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 5, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend No comments yet. Properly d.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 29, 2010

I am pleased to share that our flagship and award-winning Learning Management System, UpsideLMS , has been named as one of the “Five Emerging Learning Management Systems (LMSs) to Watch&# by Brandon Hall, chairman of Brandon Hall Research in Chief Learning Officer magazine’s July 2010 edition.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In an aptly named article, “ Why Charlie Sheen Should be Your Social Media Manager ,” Osas Obaiza at iMedia Connection brings up an interesting example of how this plays in the external marketing world: Take a look at the McDonald’s Twitter account, it boasts at paltry 90,925 following. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Measuring Project Success: Thoughts for the Training Professional by Jim on April 24, 2011 in Project Management/Project Delivery When we think of the concept of “success,” it often seems relatively straightforward.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? There are no roads, no vision, no understanding of what we are doing. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend No comments yet. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Now, there’s a third possible answer: Khan Academy.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2010

I am re-reading Informal Learning by Jay Cross and was going through the resource links he has provided. Apart from the book, which is a must read for anyone interested in the field of learning, the resource links are gold mines of knowledge, information and insights. Tags: Learning Resources.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 3, 2010

I nformal Learning has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Many vendors claim to offer informal learning, or even “informal learning management&# without having changed anything beyond the words in their advertising. Informal Learning: Five Ways to Do More with Less. Register here.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

Trackbacks/Pingbacks Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog - February 11, 2011 [.] Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about the need to train your clients on the various methods of…training. The heart of the [.] Properly d.

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