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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

Dashe & Thomson

Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 70% of workplace knowledge is learned informally (a statistic that is frequently referenced in the learning industry). The platform powers a site called TweetBeat , essentially a realtime social media filter for live events that saw more than five million visits last month alone according to its maker.

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Learning Statistics

Kapp Notes

Here are some interesting statistics about learning. billion) was allocated to external services such as workshops, vendors and external events. These types of informative statistics appear in ASTD’s annual State of the Industry report. billion (Rs 2,05,000 crore) by 2010. organizations spent $134.39 total ($83.62

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Blog Book Tour Recap Week Seven:Continuation

Kapp Notes

Gordon Snyder who writes Gordon's Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog posted a video from keynote event I did in January in San Francisco about virtual worlds and technology-based learning. Using Virtual Worlds in the Conspiracy to Create an ah-ha Moment A list of random virtual world statistics was posted.

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Writing & Grammar: More Confusing Words

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

He lead/led the charge into the superstore for the one-day sales event. The biennial/biannual event last occurred in 2010. In the aftermath of the election, one clear winner was statistics. And here are your results, statistically speaking:  Correct Answer. Here is the last/latest news on the price decrease.

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Correlation Without Causation

The Performance Improvement Blog

The problem is that executives, like all human beings, are wired to see causal relationships between behaviors and events that happen at approximately the same time. Even David Brooks, a highly respected journalist and editorial columnist for the New York Times, demonstrates this bias toward causation in his December 7, 2010 column.

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The 2010 ASTD State of the Industry Report is now available!

Take an e-Learning Break

billion) was allocated to external services such as workshops, vendors and external events. These types of informative statistics appear in ASTD's annual State of the Industry Report. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. total ($78.6 billion) was spent on the internal learning function, such as staff salaries and internal development costs.

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Answering #Gamification Questions from a 7th Grade Student-Part 2

Kapp Notes

First as a student teacher and then as a professor and even as a facilitator of training events. I believe the term was coined in the early 2000’s but wasn’t widely accepted or adopted until around 2010. I don’t have any statistics on this. Here is a link. When was the gamified learning method first used?