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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

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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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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina. Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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In a recent post, he cites a recent poll by Panorama Consulting , in which IT executives are asked about the “deadliest sin” of ERP implementations. That impact likely includes process changes that may affect employees in a variety of ways. Obviously, these changes have a potentially large impact on people working in the organization.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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McGoldrick described an approach to evaluating training that wasn’t just about changes in learner behavior but about learners integrated with and interacting within their own workplace. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. But it wasn’t.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

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The problem in executing this shift is not in setting up these new learning environments and communities, but rather in embracing the change. As I thought about why the change from traditional to innovative is so hard for some (leaders) to embrace, my mind kept coming back to one thing.

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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

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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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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

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have been accomplished, no change in behavior can occur. I can now see how Level 2 can be used to evaluate role-based eLearning and instructor-led training. Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? He recommends performance tests to measure an increase in skills. He suggests evaluation checks throughout the training?skill