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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. Go take a peek. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina.

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My job was not to tell; my job was stimulate thinking, encourage exploration, make associations, and help guide my learners. Try using a flow chart or visual mind map of the content to introduce creativity and make associations — perhaps even let the students select the order in which you discuss the information.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content. Properly d.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices

Dashe & Thomson

Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content. Properly d.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

Kahn offers a curriculum of free tutoring eLearning videos to help struggling students. How many of us still associate the story of Hansel and Gretel with “stranger danger?” Even shy learners don’t need to worry about mistakes in public, and so they are free to fail… and to learn! Bad: You Can’t Fail. Tweet This!

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Weekly Bookmarks (7/24/2011)

Experiencing eLearning

Somehow, the word lurker has become associated with pejorative connotations of people taking from communities without giving back, of not contributing, of being selfish and feeding off the hard work of others. They are the free riders. tags: community lurking. However, is that truly the case?

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Free e-Learning books

eFront

> If you know a free e-Learning book that is not included in the list please I will highly appreciate if you write a comment with a link to that book. -- -- CU Online Handbook - University of Colorado Denver (Update 12/06/2010: suggested by PRL ) Do you currently teach online? Dunlap Learning 2.0 The Charles A.