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The Ultimate Brain Food: Performance Support | Social Learning Blog

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I like to imagine performance support as an Exobrain … (and, of course, that I am one of the smart people in learning … guess I will have to ask Simon about that.) Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager.

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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 technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. Go take a peek.

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

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? The best aspects of the observed performances are emulated, and new ideas and innovations added. Innovation has always been a group activity.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

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I said in my last post that Kirkpatrick’s four levels were all about the training itself rather than how the training affects organizations. He recommends performance tests to measure an increase in skills. He suggests evaluation checks throughout the training?skill skill practice, role plays, and training simulations?with

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. The focus is on the training event itself and the follow-up to that event. Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

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In both cases, the managers had complete control over the training their workers did or didn’t get. Trust me…trying to train folks on a software package that they will neither need nor use is an exercise in frustration for everyone involved, not to mention a waste of time and money. It was for their own good after all.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?”