Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

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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Limestone Learning

JANUARY 26, 2021

There are some gems, though, so it’s worth checking out and spending a strategic hour or two learning something new! Employees get to learn and grow, which boosts their morale. One of the most important things is a skill-based development strategy from which leaders and managers can receive skill data.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Mentally glancing over the 5 project management maxims below (and others like them) every now and then has helped me more than once on a project. Communication is the key to any good relationship, and that rule remains true at the project management level. Profound statement? Of course, not. One we often forget? Definitely.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Mentally glancing over the 5 project management maxims below (and others like them) every now and then has helped me more than once on a project. Communication is the key to any good relationship, and that rule remains true at the project management level. Profound statement? Of course, not. One we often forget? Definitely.

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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.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Differing notions of how training should be developed have been analyzed and batted around their office for some time, whether for a new ERP system or a change in operational procedures.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Return of the (Digital) Native by Jim on March 25, 2011 in mobile learning In recent years, we’ve all heard a lot about digital natives. Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In?

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?”

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. The focus is on the training event itself and the follow-up to that event. Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 2, 2011

Simply put, in most cases failed EHRs suffer from the same symptoms that are seen in countless other IT implementations: insufficient staff buy-in, insufficient training, and an ROI that is often slow to make itself apparent. Up until now the effects of these failed implementations have amounted to little more than lost opportunities.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. Start a page for each learning topic and add draft learning objectives and content.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 21, 2011

Early indications of this same paradigm shift can be seen in the learning and education arenas. The problem in executing this shift is not in setting up these new learning environments and communities, but rather in embracing the change.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings?

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. Mistakes or guessing should cause realistic consequence.

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eLearning Blender

AUGUST 20, 2009

This post describes a couple of projects I developed for this class and what I learned from them. Early in the semester we were assigned to develop a Telecollaboration lesson using Google Sites. The telecollaboration activity I designed for this project is called the " Handling Customer Objections Showdown."

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices by Paul on November 24, 2010 in mobile learning , social learning In an article she wrote for Training Magazine in June 2009 called Best Buy’s New Role , Terah Shelton explores Best Buy’s then-new Results-Oriented Learning Environment (ROLE). I know I haven’t.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Hey, That’s Social Learning! by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2011

I like to imagine performance support as an Exobrain … (and, of course, that I am one of the smart people in learning … guess I will have to ask Simon about that.) Web-based learning portals are the ultimate brain food — extending brain power by positioning learning and How-To reference material close to the job, 24/7.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 5, 2011

Without a robust communication and training plan, employees are left wondering how their jobs will look in the future. To avoid this problem, companies must build significant financial and human resources into ERP project plans for communications, training, and other organizational change management activities.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. Why are they in this training session? So how do you keep it real?

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices by Paul on November 24, 2010 in mobile learning , social learning In an article she wrote for Training Magazine in June 2009 called Best Buy’s New Role , Terah Shelton explores Best Buy’s then-new Results-Oriented Learning Environment (ROLE). I know I haven’t.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 28, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Once you’ve established a business connection, you’ve set the foundation for sharing a multitude of resources ranging from best practices to collaborating on joint ventures and projects. My background includes extensive experience in learning, teaching, and facilitation, and I love technology and how its changing our culture.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 5, 2011

So what did this teach me about learning? Nothing new, really, but it reinforced the idea that effective training can only be accomplished by doing , not being told. Nothing new, really, but it reinforced the idea that effective training can only be accomplished by doing , not being told. Collaborative learning?

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Not Everyone is a Social Customer by Paul on February 11, 2011 in Development Tools , customer service , social learning A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about the need to train your clients on the various methods of…training.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Of course, the person “next to you” might just as often be consulted via email or other online tool, but it doesn’t change this fact: the amount of workplace learning done in formal training sessions is a tiny fraction of of the learning that takes place one-on-one, between coworkers. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.]

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Hey, That’s Social Learning! by Jolene on December 14, 2010 in social learning Recently I witnessed a fabulous and fascinating display of social learning – a high school chamber music concert.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? I started thinking about this during a program on Accelerated Learning at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (MNISPI).

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 29, 2011

The material is being written at an 8th grade reading level and, for the most part, the training content is pretty straightforward. It covers topics like filling and emptying propane containers, and federal codes and regulations as they relate to the training tasks. Rather, it has to be learned through experience.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? But why is video so much more effective at accelerating innovation than, say, print – or even eLearning? less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. That’s right, FACEBOOK!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? by Andrea on February 23, 2011 in social learning The other night I attended a lecture at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

I said in my last post that Kirkpatrick’s four levels were all about the training itself rather than how the training affects organizations. Level 2: Learning. He says unless one or more of the learning objectives?knowledge, He suggests evaluation checks throughout the training?skill

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. Start a page for each learning topic and add draft learning objectives and content.

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