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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 clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. Properly d.

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Training: Spaced Learning

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

amount of information you'd like to teach quickly and effectively? information over a short amount of time, one learning method suggests.     In an article first reported in Scientific American in 2005 , R. Douglas This learning theory doesn't give specifics on how long is too.

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Recommended Research: Constructivism & Learning Technology

Adobe Captivate

Last week, we had an awesome virtual class on how to implement an effective gamification strategy within a corporate learning environment! In class, we briefly touched on some learning theories and research related to constructivism and the effective use of technology, games and gamification within the overall learning environment.

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Resources from my presentation at Innovations in e-learning Symposium

Kapp Notes

It is better to have one “expert” avatar and another “motivational” avatar in a learning environment rather than having one combined “mentor” avatar. Virtual self-modeling: the effects of vicarious reinforcement and identification on exercise behaviors. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. & Kim, Y.

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Resources from CSTD Webinar

Kapp Notes

It is better to have one “expert” avatar and another “motivational” avatar in a learning environment rather than having one combined “mentor” avatar. Virtual self-modeling: the effects of vicarious reinforcement and identification on exercise behaviors. See more research at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. & Kim, Y.

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Double win for Learning Pool in Learning Technologies Awards 2019

Learning Pool

The Learning Technologies Awards is an international scheme which has been rewarding learning technologies excellence since 2005. Independently judged, the awards showcase some of the most recognizable, memorable, and life-changing learning technologies and elearning worldwide.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

That is one of the key reasons I believe blogging is a powerful method of professional engagement, and as Lawrence Lessig argues: "Blogging, a bit like forums, are spaces where people can congregate to share ideas, engage in dialogue over particular issues, and learn a great deal. Lessig, 2005, p. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9.