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Why Your Organization Needs Collaborative Learning

NovoEd

Research through the years has shown that collaborative learning produces better outcomes than individual or competitive efforts, regardless of cultural, socioeconomic or geographic factors. What do we mean by collaborative learning? More Than One Way up the Mountain. More Than One Way up the Mountain.

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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

Some sites crowd-source the answers while others use mentors to answer questions in their area of expertise. Here are a few: Amazon’s Askville , Yahoo Answers , Answerbag , Gotta Mentor , BlurtIt , and WikiAnswers. Create a Mashup. Two mashup platforms are Pipes and Scrapplet. Hang Out with Professors. Tweet This!

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Kindle Highlights Social Learning

Marcia Conner

While I’ve struggled with becoming an online book reader, this feature shows me possibilities that truly advance publishing into a new more collaborative age. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before. We see four types of mashups influencing how people learn socially: role, workgroup, content, and management.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Here social media were used to connect people, enabling them to collaborate together in project work, small group learning and online discussions. Their mentor was able to read the student’s posting and then comment directly to the blog with their own observations, guidance and support (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2010). Yeomans, P.

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15 essentials for successful learning

Jay Cross

While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. Set high expectations, and people live up to them. Ensure that managers and mentors understand the impact of stretch assignments. Make collaboration the norm.

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Performance Support

Clark Quinn

Great post by Jay Cross that uses the history of performance support to set up the need for what Jay calls Learnscapes. He later asks: Overall, what are corporate blogs, feeds, aggregators, wikis, mash-ups, locator systems, collaboration environments, and widgets, if not performance support?

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An Expert’s View On The Transformation of Employee Training

WalkMe Training Station

Let WalkMe help you keep up with the transformation of employee training. Successful transfer of information that leads to new capability is a herculean feat that requires a scientific mashup of context, data, information, engagement, motivation, and emotional uplift. Coaching and mentoring folks get them to the next level is a must.