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Why and how to create successful Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) in the Workplace

TalentLMS

By leveraging your personal learning network to get the information you need, you can become instantly productive. What is a Personal Learning Network (PLN)? The idea behind a Personal Learning Network has its roots in a learning theory, called the Theory of Connectivism, advanced by George Siemens back in 2005.

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Surf’s Up: Riding the Waves of eLearning Trends

Association eLearning

When we first started talking about this a few years ago, we called this idea Association.edu or competency based learning. Basically, we’re talking about giving a learner a personalized learning path based on competencies they already have and will need to take the next steps at their organizations. What about networking?

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Everything you need to know about the spacing effect – in five minutes

Learning Pool

There is a huge and teeming literature of learning theory which, let’s be honest, most of us don’t have the time to read. It may have an impeccable grounding in empirical research, but the spacing effect is far from being an obscure scientific principle known only to learning theory ‘geeks’. in experimental psychology.

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Theories for the digital age: Connectivism

Learning with e's

Learning in the industrialised world can now be contextualised within a largely technological landscape, where the use of digital media is assuming increasing importance. These facets of modern life in combination have led educators to question the validity of pre-digital age learning theories. 1964) Understanding Media.

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What is Distance Learning? Definition, Examples and Types To Expect In 2021

Academy of Mine

Lessons done in this style typically use vicarious learning theory and do not rely exclusively on a lecturer; instead the teaching is done through video content that is prerecorded and available for the learner to access whenever they wish.

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Internal Vs. External Enterprise Learning: What’s the Difference?

Hurix Digital

This extended or external enterprise learning is primarily concerned with training efficacy, quality of educational content, learning theories, and instructional design. In contrast, the complexity of role management for external learners is higher.

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How Social Learning is Powering Up Today’s Workplaces

Learnnovators

Fortunately, most human behaviour is learned observationally through modelling; from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviours are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.” ” – Albert Bandura (Originator of Social Learning Theory). “