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How to Become an Industry Pro

B Online Learning

In this video, Tom Kuhlmann, VP of Articulate Community talks about how to become an industry pro. The presentation was the closing keynote at iDESIGNX in Sydney 2014. With the internet it seems anyone’s a pro. Why not you? How to build your online portfolio through community Tips & tricks on establishing your expertise.

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Friday Finds — Prompt Like a Pro, Learning Science, Video Repurposing

Mike Taylor

News & Notes 6 Evidence-Based Instructional Practices Drawn From Cognitive Science Good teachers are constantly seeking new ways to improve their teaching, utilizing scientific research on how we learn and teach. Take away : These research-backed strategies have the capacity to help people learn and retain more information.

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8 Best practices to facilitate informal learning

Matrix

Without ruling out traditional L&D practices, informal learning should find its way into today’s workplace. Read more: The truth about informal learning: it happens all the time, anywhere. 8 practices to facilitate informal learning. We live in an age when we don’t search for news, the news find us.

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Thursday’s Trending e-Learning Topic: Informal Learning

Trivantis

The trending topic today is informal learning! This learning trend is a huge part of the future of e-Learning because it has tons of benefits for those who encourage it at their organizations. One of the reasons informal learning is so successful is because it provides freedom for learning—whenever there’s an opportunity.

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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. An LMS’s social learning tools such as realtime chat, personal profiles and video conferencing encourage employee connection and informal learning. workers were engaged in their jobs in 2014.” This is in the U.S.

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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.