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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

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. In dollar figures, spending is minimal.

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The Key to Adoption of Collaboration Tools: Process Integration

Dashe & Thomson

Plenty has been written about why employees are slow to adopt enterprise collaboration tools. Most opinions on the matter, however, don’t provide satisfying conclusions about why collaboration tools are so slow to gain traction in large organizations. This makes a lot of sense.

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Supercomputer's Win on Jeopardy: Little Comfort to Those.

Dashe & Thomson

The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me. In fact, the competition wasn’t close; the computer came away with nearly four times as much money as the closest nearest competitor. A lot of people, apparently, agree.

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How to Maximize Employees’ Strengths with an LMS

TOPYX LMS

The good news is there is a way to get employees engaged in and excited about their work. One way to ensure they do is to implement a social learning management system (LMS). An LMS, or eLearning platform, is a tool designed primarily to provide corporate training solutions. workers were engaged in their jobs in 2014.”

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6 Trends in Rapid eLearning Tools to watch in 2012

mLearning Revolution

HTML5 — This is a no-brainer for me and I strongly believe every Rapid eLearning tool should absolutely have a simple way to get a course published to HTML5 in 2012. If I were starting a company today building a Rapid eLearning tool, I would only focus on publishing to HTML5. Informal Learning and Social learning.

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How (and Why) You Should Promote Informal Learning with Trainees (and the Boss)

Mindflash

Do they learn more about their job from formal training (classroom, online, etc.) or do they learn more informally (from peers, managers, etc.)? You should find out, and here’s why: Informal learning accounts for over 75% of the learning taking place in organizations today. Reality Check.

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Since I became an active Twitter user a few months ago, the application has grown on me to the point where it’s now far-and-away my favorite social media tool. And I use the word ‘tool’ for a reason. This is a tool you use to react to something you see, hear or do and an opportunity to create a voice. Properly d.