Remove 2010 Remove Developing eLearning Remove Effectiveness Remove Innovation
article thumbnail

Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Weber also points out how effectively additional techniques demonstrated in the movie – like music, movement, and humor – open the mind to learning. I’ll be seeing it again! Properly d.

article thumbnail

Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S. Navy intends to sit back and watch what unfolds, taking advantage of thousands of minds to generate innovative approaches to a real-world problem. Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. Essentially, the U.S. Properly d.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The best aspects of the observed performances are emulated, and new ideas and innovations added. Innovation has always been a group activity. But why is video so much more effective at accelerating innovation than, say, print – or even eLearning? less big companies, for more than 20 years. tool chest.

article thumbnail

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

Dashe & Thomson

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). They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. Properly d.

article thumbnail

The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

That’s all fair, and we should seek to accommodate as many people as possible in our pursuit of effective training. And yet that’s effectively what is happening when we present text visually and then have someone say it at the same time. Why don’t we hear that? Because it’s not true. Properly d. All Rights Reserved.

article thumbnail

Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

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. Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning). Properly d.

article thumbnail

Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom by Jon on March 21, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Where do the most innovate ideas in learning come from? Properly d.

Lecture 134