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

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.

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The $2 Whiteboard Shows Power of Peer-to-Peer Learning | Social.

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Of course, the person “next to you” might just as often be consulted via email or other online tool, but it doesn’t change this fact: the amount of workplace learning done in formal training sessions is a tiny fraction of of the learning that takes place one-on-one, between coworkers. Properly d. All Rights Reserved.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

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The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. To start answering these questions, we have to acknowledge that formal learning, as we know it today, will not be effective in the future. Instead, we will need to put the workers themselves in charge of their own learning. Properly d.

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

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

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From a personal perspective, networking builds new relationships through which you can share information, answer questions, and make new connections. People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. Think of your network as your own personal cheering section!

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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My goal is to make sure that no matter the size of the project, each company that comes to us gets immediate, attentive, personal service. When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. Properly d. All Rights Reserved.

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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

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I think it has a lot to do with the exponential increase in opportunities for social learning in the last few decades. Information can be gathered more quickly, and through many more avenues, than at any other time in our history. Social learning no longer has to take place in person. Properly d.