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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. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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Research Shows Companies Should Encourage Social Learning

TOPYX LMS

For example, informal learning happens effortlessly when people: Read a statistic or story on Facebook or another social media network. Have a conversation with a coworker about how to perform a job task. Peruse someone’s profile on a social media site. Why have they not boosted their social learning campaigns?

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Autonomy and Value in Social and Workplace Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

It struck me that Jane’s model closely aligned with others I’ve been using to help explain the increase in realised value brought about by the use of experiential, social and workplace learning. Perhaps this is why social learning is being resisted or put into a formal training box in many organizations.

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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. Watching an avatar that looks like you performing an activity influences you to perform a similar or same activity in the future. & Kim, Y. A study by Ersner-Hershfield et al.

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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. Watching an avatar that looks like you performing an activity influences you to perform a similar or same activity in the future. & Kim, Y. A study by Ersner-Hershfield et al.

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The 6 Benefits of ePortfolios and How To Create Them

eFront

They are also effective marketing tools that can attract prospective employers for commenting and feedback. It is a detailed description of learning that has taken place. It is a recollection of experience and performance. They can see their learning achievements. Recording learning. Reflecting on learning.

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

. “Far from divorcing emotions from thinking, the new research collectively suggests that emotions, such as anger, fear, happiness, and sadness, are cognitive and psychological processes that involve the body and mind (Barrett, 2009; Damasio, 1994/2005; Damasio et al.,