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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning). 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. Properly d.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

While we may like to believe that directing and guiding our learners to new understanding is the most effective way to educate, the traditional Instructor-Led Training (ILT) model fails to recognize that our learners have changed. Blend Your “Content-Heavy” Courses. Discover the real problems and questions before you jump to the solution.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

Dashe & Thomson

To avoid this problem, companies must build significant financial and human resources into ERP project plans for communications, training, and other organizational change management activities. Because the return on investment for these activities can be difficult to quantify, it is often overlooked. Properly d.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

View all posts by Paul → ← Kirkpatrick Revisited Embracing Innovation in Learning → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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

Dashe & Thomson

So I say to you all, friends with whom I dine and otherwise, do not support your company’s efforts to stifle your use of the internet, but actively lobby for your online freedoms instead. Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. Properly d.

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

Dashe & Thomson

View all posts by Paul → ← Kirkpatrick Revisited Embracing Innovation in Learning → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator. Learners as Teachers. Properly d.