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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. The figure was highest among large businesses, 42% of which spent money on informal learning during the year. In dollar figures, spending is minimal. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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

Dashe & Thomson

Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices

Dashe & Thomson

Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.” Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content.

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eLearning Conferences

Tony Karrer

link] cfp_edu.htm January 5-8, 2009 College Teaching and Learning Conference and Applied Business Research Conference sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. link] January 26-February 21, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, (AACRAO) Registrar 101 online course.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Women, Gaming & the Guild Master Ceiling

Learning Visions

A basic premise of the book is that gamers are on their way into the workplace and will be changing how we do business. Karl sites statistics that "Seventy percent of the players of the social interaction game The Sims are women under twenty-five," and that the number one game from May 2004-July 2006 was Princess Fashion Boutique.

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Facebook for e-Learning

eFront

At the same time, Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks that helps people communicate efficiently with their friends, families, coworkers, and classmates. Sorry I got carried away a bit there :P You can also integrate other social networking API's such as Twitter. I hope that this helps.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? DogEar – Social Bookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. Choose the top 3-5.

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