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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. All Rights Reserved. Visit us at dashe.com

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience. All Rights Reserved.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

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So I say to you all, friends with whom I dine and otherwise, do not support your company’s efforts to stifle your use of the internet, but actively lobby for your online freedoms instead. Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. All Rights Reserved.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience. All Rights Reserved.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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We cannot continue to so caustically point to “lack of faculty buy-in” as the reason for our failure of imagination. There are no roads, no vision, no understanding of what we are doing. Ive worked in sales and marketing with various organizations, including 3M, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Ionix Medical, and the Itasca Project. All Rights Reserved.

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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Since I became an active Twitter user a few months ago, the application has grown on me to the point where it’s now far-and-away my favorite social media tool. Twitter gets a bad rap. From its childish name to its complex language of re-tweets and hashtags, many people tend to criticize the application before they try it. All Rights Reserved.

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Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

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Nevertheless, next time you are leading a change initiative, ask around to determine where these socially gifted people are located, and actively engage them on your project. Going back to Brown and Thomas’ A New Culture of Learning , “students themselves are taking an active role in helping to create and mold [learning].”