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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. The figure was highest among large businesses, 42% of which spent money on informal learning during the year. In dollar figures, spending is minimal.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

They’re sources of novelty and innovation (because they know quite different things than we do) and bridges to other social networks (because they know quite different people than we do). At the conference, a representative from Raytheon Corporation spoke about a study they had conducted among their vast employee population.

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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

But more than that, these patients and their families realize that, no matter the outcome, the results of the trial will matter…to this research, to another study, to another patient down the line. Now let’s translate this to a business setting. It could bring a new or struggling business to life or ensure its death.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

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. Much scrambling ensues.

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How Do You Teach Innovation?

CLO Magazine

To do that they need a workforce that has the skills to solve customer problems by creating new and more innovative products and services. This need is changing the way business leaders think about talent development and the core skills they need in the workforce. Innovation on its own is not a skill.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Case studies, exercises, and simulations can be part of a continuum linking Levels 1, 2, and 3. Kirkpatrick says new knowledge and skills don’t translate to actual business value unless they are transferred to new on-the-job behavior. I can now see how Level 2 can be used to evaluate role-based eLearning and instructor-led training.