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

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. More about me here.

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#DevLearn 2012: Kapp Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Baylor and Kim (2005) report that in multiple studies with avatars of different gender and race, evidence indicates that students learned significantly more and had significantly greater motivation when working with one motivator and a different expert avatar as compared to working with the just the one mentor avatar. Reference: Baylor, A.

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#ASTDTK2013 Resources from ASTD Presentations

Kapp Notes

Baylor and Kim (2005) report that in multiple studies with avatars of different gender and race, evidence indicates that students learned significantly more and had significantly greater motivation when working with one motivator and a different expert avatar as compared to working with the just the one mentor avatar. Reference: Baylor, A.

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ILT Trainers– Are you leaving something on the table?

Harbinger Interactive Learning

The way learning is delivered directly impacts performance and retention. However, with rapid advancements in technology, increased geographic reach of organizations, changed learner profiles because of inclusion of millennials in the workforce and tech-savvy learners, there is a huge scope for ILT to be made more effective.

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Resources from Training 2013 Conference and Expo #trg13

Kapp Notes

Baylor and Kim (2005) report that in multiple studies with avatars of different gender and race, evidence indicates that students learned significantly more and had significantly greater motivation when working with one motivator and a different expert avatar as compared to working with the just the one mentor avatar. Reference: Baylor, A.

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TechKnowledge 2012 Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Here are my slides from the TechKnowledge 2012 presentation “What Research Tells us about 3D Avatars, Storytelling and Serious games for Learning and Changing Behavior” plus videos and other links that go into more detail based on the topics I discussed. Kapp's ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 Presentation. & Kim, Y.

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#ASTDNY Presentation Resources

Kapp Notes

Also, here are some links that provide some additional information about what we discussed in the workshop. Watching an avatar that looks like you performing an activity influences you to perform a similar or same activity in the future. Here are the slides from the presentation. Improve Training: Thinking Like a Game Designer.

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