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Situated Cognition In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

TalentLMS

Learners must be able to put their knowledge to use outside the virtual classroom, and simulating real world challenges is one of the best ways to achieve this. Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices.

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The Case for Communities of Practice

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Chefs are a community of like-minded individuals who identify with one another, advance the practice of their profession and help new entrants join the industry. Ten years ago, the common wisdom was that you could not establish a community of practice. Have you assessed who might form natural communities?

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How Does Implementing Formal Measures to Ensure Continuous Improvement Build Organisational Capability?

Acorn Labs

Formal measures for continuous improvement include implementing communities of practice (a group of people with a shared concern or interest), training evaluation, training assessments and post-training tracking. Centralised knowledge systems for organic knowledge transfer.

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How Moodle LMS can help your business operations thrive

Yatharthriti

You can also create a competency test with both multiple-choice and essay questions to test knowledge and skills. Creating virtual communities: Communities of practice are informal groups of people within the business community that have common goals and interests.

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How Does Implementing Formal Measures to Ensure Continuous Improvement Build Organisational Capability?

Acorn Labs

This is commonly done through formal measures like training evaluation, training assessments, post-training enablement and communities of practice (i.e. Applying that to organisational capability building means utilising measures to optimise workflows, employee knowledge and engagement, and overall, your bottom line.

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At the edge

Clark Quinn

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. This included and Enterprise Social Network and a Knowledge Management system. The solution includes continuous assessment, mobile performance support, and coaching. The problem was too much hierarchy. The issue was solving workplace problems.

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Retaining Your Company’s Knowledge through eLearning

TalentLMS

By now, what we call the “2020 Information Age”, knowledge has become an asset. Immeasurable And all the while you thought, your eLearning efforts had been enough to generate “knowledge” within your company to coax in enough ROI, the much anticipated green bills. Think: Knowledge + Management = Knowledge Management.