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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

We are moving, albeit in fits and starts, from traditional learning environments, where curriculum are essentially assigned to learners, to more collaborative and innovative environments where learners can self-direct their learning and participate in communities of passion. It was for their own good after all. Yeah, right.

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

Today, we learn by watching, listening, and doing; by blending visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles to understand new concepts, retain that knowledge, and apply them to everyday challenges, at work and at home. This is Bandura’s social learning theory. Social learning theory.

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Rubber bands and chewing gum

E-Learning Provocateur

According to Oxford professor Paulo Savaget , people who adopt a hacker mentality at work enjoy the process of finding work-arounds. Which, I’m sorry to concede, does not represent everyone in the Learning & Development profession. It could be the lack of belief we have in our own abilities.

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How to inspire seamless VR adoption among older employees

STRIVR

As practically every company adopts new digital ways of doing all kinds of things, workers from pre-digital generations sometimes struggle to adapt. Within a headset, VR inspires seamless and effective adoption of new skills. The post How to inspire seamless VR adoption among older employees appeared first on Strivr.

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

Dashe & Thomson

As support, Anderson provides examples in which exceptional performers (elite dancers, TED Conference speakers), learn from their counterparts around the world by watching them online. 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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What is Social Learning (And How to Adopt it)

Docebo

For enterprises, there are several reasons to adopt social learning in the workplace, including: Shorter orientation times for new hires: It can take up to 2 years before an employee is “fully productive.” Albert Bandura hypothesized that social learning spans the gap between behaviourism and cognitivism. Social Learning Theory.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Trent Batson wrote a great piece on technology adoption in the classroom a couple weeks ago entitled Faculty ‘Buy in’ – to What? Academia needs a coherent learning theory, or set of theories, that provides guidance for building the road system so the cars can operate. Sad, but true. Properly d.