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

Dashe & Thomson

by Paul on April 13, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning Last week my girlfriend and I ate dinner at Darbar Indian Grill in Uptown Minneapolis with another couple (good food, but overpriced), and we got on the topic of surfing the net on the job. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did.

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Devlearn conference day one: an exhilarating day

Challenge to Learn

John is the producer of many movies, the most famous ones are Titanic and Avatar. The technique to shoot the scripts of these movies wasn’t there when the scripts were written. Organizational Learning with agility. He spoke briefly about all the elements of the conference. Keynote: John Landau. Great presentation.

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Best Practices Aren’t Always Best

CLO Magazine

Best practice knowledge research from within and outside an industry plays an important part in organizational learning. This makes it important to look at the limitations that come with using the best practices concept in business. If everyone followed industry best practices, all businesses would look the same to the customer.

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Evaluating Training Through Stories

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is how Maggie Bayless, head of training at Zingerman’s, a “Small Giant” company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, describes this link between training and business results. In addition, the story should describe what the organization did and did not do to facilitate learning and results (e.g., We understand the world through story.

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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

Of course, it’s such a big topic that I decided to cheat and quickly point the person to eLearning Learning and particular to eLearning Sales , eLearning Sales Metrics , Sales eLearning Case Studies , and Sales Performance Support. In Part 2, I'll list some of the levels within one of the learning types. Illustrate a concept.

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JOE GANCI – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

However, aside from the business factors, the choice of a tool that will stand the test of time is dependent on a number of other considerations. Does it address the needs of today’s mobile learning, even if at the moment you’re not considering delivering to mobile devices? So what about learning? How often is the tool updated?

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Virtual Team Management - ID Reflections , March 8, 2010 I recommend this simulation to all those who either are handling a globally distributed team or a project, and to all managers who feel that effective communication is one of the keys to business success. Organizational Learning (11). Mobile Learning (22).