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Upskilling in a Data-Driven Workforce

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Gartner reports that less than 50% of business strategies reference data skills as a vital factor for supplying organization-wide value. Organizations across the globe have recognized the need for digital transformation to compete in the current business environment.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

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Here’s an example: A company is rolling out a new expense reporting and approval system and needs to train over 1000 users. You both submit your own expense reports and approve expense reports submitted by your team. Time to get those expense reports submitted and others approved. Then all hell breaks loose.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Evidence That Designers May Soon Rule the World

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There was too much great content to report on exhaustively, but one session [.] A bunch of us at Dashe & Thomson had a great time a couple weeks ago when we attended the South by Southwest Interactive conference – an enormous event that one blogger dubbed the “digital Super Bowl.”

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Why Your Training Is Failing. And How To Fix It

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The Association for Talent Development reported 95 percent of training was enjoyed by participants, but only 37 percent of training resulted in participants learning the material, only 13 percent reached a level where participants applied what they learned, and a mere 3 percent of training reached a level where the organization felt an impact.

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The New Face of Blended Learning

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In the Innosight Institute May 2011 report titled The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning , the authors suggest that the technologies employed by these models are disrupting education in ways unlike earlier technologies. According to the report authors, six models are emerging to which blended learning is gravitating. This is great.

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The Ten Commandments of Elegant and Effective PowerPoint Design

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A keynote (TEDtalk-style) presentation should look different than a data report-type presentation. PowerPoint is used in a variety of contexts and despite the rigid and inherently presumptuous title of this blog post, the specifics of how to follow these rules might change based on the purpose of the presentation.