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

Dashe & Thomson

A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. They’re sources of novelty and innovation (because they know quite different things than we do) and bridges to other social networks (because they know quite different people than we do).

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

Are you likely to interact with your computer as if you were social partners, as you would with your peers in a traditional classroom? In light of the latest findings in social and emotional neuroscience, it seems quite plausible. ” Emotional and social neuroscience on learning First, a word about neuroscience.

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Autonomy and Value in Social and Workplace Learning

Performance Learning Productivity

Initially from courses to resources and then further out to the exploitation of social collaboration and personal learning (and personal knowledge mastery ). If not, that means that organizations need to understand and implement something like a human performance technology model for L&D before they can move on to social learning.

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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. Humans used to learn primarily informally, or socially.

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Measuring The Effectiveness of Your Blended Learning Program

Obsidian Learning

We should consider how to measure the effectiveness of that investment. Learning does not necessarily equal improved performance. Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick (2005) suggest that placing a dollar value on the benefits of training for non-skills-related topics is impossible. Level 3: Behavior. Benefits and Soft Skills.

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The Neuroscience of Self-directed Learning

CLO Magazine

There are two parts to being able to clone your people: the ability to reverse engineer the top performers to really understand what makes them extraordinary, and the ability to quickly and efficiently develop others to think and act like those top performers. Once rewired, these patterns are the new unconscious competence.

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Resources from my presentation at Innovations in e-learning Symposium

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. . & & Kim, Y.