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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work. One friend mentioned that her company doesn’t allow her to use the internet, period, because they expect her full attention to be on patients for the entire day. And she felt this to be acceptable.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. Navy intends to sit back and watch what unfolds, taking advantage of thousands of minds to generate innovative approaches to a real-world problem. As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S. Essentially, the U.S.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week.

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Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

What is new, however, is the ratio of on-demand solutions to more traditional training offerings. Special shared kiosks are a possible solution to this problem, but they may be cost prohibitive. In my opinion, it’s not that providing on-demand learning and performance solutions is a new idea.

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Common Pitfalls in Mobile App Accessibility Testing and How to Avoid Them?

Hurix Digital

More than 60% of all internet users worldwide accessed the internet via a mobile device in 2022. Ignoring Text Replacements for Pictures It is imperative to tackle the problem of neglecting text alternatives for images in accessibility testing. For visual accessibility, text and images must have a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1,

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

And what used to be homework [solving problems] is now done in the classroom.” What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk.

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