Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One of the most important characteristics of an employee education program is its ability to engage employees, as engagement is almost always directly correlated with learning outcomes. At Dashe, we’re always focusing on new, creative ways to engage and educate employees.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 17, 2020

By shifting your learning strategy to focus on what you can control, you can reclaim your learners’ attention and keep them engaged in your curriculum. In this remote work environment, you can leverage modern technology to adopt a digital blended learning strategy that will enhance your learning experiences.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 30, 2021

Blended learning has been a cornerstone of education programs for the better part of 5 years now, and for good reason. Combining traditional in-person learning strategies with online interactions, blended learning can be implemented for a variety of learning and development needs.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As a learning strategy or approach, microlearning delivers short (10 minutes or less), focused training and performance support. Microlearning is an emerging paradigm that addresses a learner’s need to receive the content they need, when they need it, and in the appropriate context. Think of it as bite sized. Not a full lunch.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

In her guest blog post on LEEF blog , Koreen Olbrish , CEO at Tandem Learning, outlines several theories that justify games and simulations as learning strategies, including these: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory. Mistakes or guessing should cause realistic consequence. Rieber and Play Theory.

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Dashe & Thomson

JUNE 6, 2011

What’s not to love about a learning strategy that is informative and empirically proven to be effective, yet engaging and entertaining at the same time? Another reason, though – and this coincidentally helps to explain the appeal of games to learners in the first place – is that it’s such a fun topic to write about.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Build performance support into every blended learning effort.

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