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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

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While we may like to believe that directing and guiding our learners to new understanding is the most effective way to educate, the traditional Instructor-Led Training (ILT) model fails to recognize that our learners have changed. Blend Your “Content-Heavy” Courses. Divide what they need to “know” and “do” into a blended learning experience.

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

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Already, the first classes of DNs have entered the workforce. While the increasing difficulty of engaging Digital Natives in a way that is meaningful to them is still mainly an issue for the school system, it will soon be an issue for corporate training professionals, as well. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

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What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena

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Reaction: The most important point is whether the training had an impact: according to Cathy, “70% of the players said that they were looking forward to discussing the game in class the next day, and instructors reported that the activity ‘prompted the majority of the discussion’ and encouraged soldiers to share their own experiences.”

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eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena.

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Reaction: The most important point is whether the training had an impact: according to Cathy, “70% of the players said that they were looking forward to discussing the game in class the next day, and instructors reported that the activity ‘prompted the majority of the discussion’ and encouraged soldiers to share their own experiences.”

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Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? | Social Learning Blog

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by Barbara on March 28, 2011 in Instructional Design , performance support Accelerated Learning Mind Map While I was taking classes in curriculum design, we discussed, at great length, different learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class. What is measured doesn’t seem to be what companies are interested in. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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