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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 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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Can Learnist Hold the Key to Enterprise Social Learning?

Dashe & Thomson

Learnist describes itself as a tool for “people helping other people learn. Learn something, teach something.” Now, I realize there have been a plethora of social learning tools introduced in the last couple years that tout themselves as the application that will revolutionize peer to peer information exchange.

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

Dashe & Thomson

John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Best Buy has tapped into a present-day societal truth: people prefer learning to being taught. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.]

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices

Dashe & Thomson

John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Best Buy has tapped into a present-day societal truth: people prefer learning to being taught. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.]

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Encourage Informal Learning with an LMS

TOPYX LMS

This method of learning is called informal learning. Sometimes it is referred to as social learning. A whopping 80 percent of learning happens informally , outside of a classroom. Most of the time, individuals are not even aware that they are learning when they obtain knowledge this way.

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4 Online Learning Trends That Will Impact the Future of Corporate Learning

TOPYX LMS

Corporations build their employees through the training they offer them, and much of that training is delivered via online learning or learning management system (LMS). Through online learning, companies are effectively developing workers that can meet their needs and help them grow.

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Targeted On-The-Job Skill Development For First-Time Managers

Disprz

Impact of social learning. Companies are looking for ways to make continuous learning and training part of an employee’s professional journey. Social learning is pivotal in creating a culture of continuous new manager training. It fosters workplace collaboration and improves corporate culture.

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