Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). In an effort to bridge the time and distance gap, he started making 10-minute videos of math lessons and posting them on YouTube.

Lecture 134

Lecture Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki 134

Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

The New York Times recently featured a fascinating article by Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin that details the shift in thinking within the military that may soon take it to the forefront of virtual training. What’s more, they don’t just mean by saving money or time (although their games are doing that, too). They mean by saving lives.

Social Networks 160

Social Networks Blended Learning Diversity Training Games 160

Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. Properly d.

Social Networks 133

Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Social 133

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. Properly d.

Social Networks 124

Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 124

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? But we need to bring technologists and the learning theorists and researchers together to design the roadmap. Properly d.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning Social 100

Performance Learning Productivity

JANUARY 20, 2015

However, the way these three broad categories are described in the model can lead to a focus on the ratios rather than the underlying principles and categorisation. The evidence, however, does point to the fact that most learning is experiential and social, and most of that being carried out in a self-directed way.

Change 100

Change Ratio Performance Support Pattern 100

Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A remarkable example of this phenomenon can be found in Wikipedia, a completely user-driven Collaborative Knowledge Support System (my own term) that has become not only the most all-encompassing compendium of knowledge in world history, but increasingly the resource of choice for information on current events.

Wikipedia 124

Wikipedia Social Networks Collaborative Learning Blended Learning 124