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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. View all posts by Paul → ← Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did.

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5 eLearning Trends Leading to the End of the Learning Management System

easygenerator

Since there is so much available information for anyone to find what they need, when they need it — through search engines, Wikipedia, Mooc’s or YouTube. Learning has become an ‘on demand’ business. Today learning is becoming more “pull’ and less “push”, as learners take charge of their own learning. On demand development.

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4 Implications of Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn

CommLab India

Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn could lead to the integration of LinkedIn, SharePoint, Yammer, and Excel, resulting in the emergence of a comprehensive talent management platform. A recruitment executive in a pharmaceutical company is tasked with hiring chemical engineers. Let us see what they are. Consider the following scenario.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. Anyone can join up for free using their business email address and if a network for their company already exists, they will join it, if it doesn’t it will automatically be set up. 4 - Google Search. In addition it makes sharing files with other people very easy.

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A Review of 2011 and the Future of Workplace Learning

Mindflash

The four themes were business acumen and leadership, social learning, rapid instructional design, and experimenting with innovative ideas. Business acumen and leadership skills. Business acumen and leadership are about workplace-learning leaders spending more time gaining a deep understanding of the business constituents they serve.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Elgg is a social networking engine and publishing platform for running your own social networking site on a public or private server. It would be difficult to create a ten-list without mentioning some of Google’s continually evolving Google Collaboration Tools for Education and Business. Category: Social Networking Platform.