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

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The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. At the conference, a representative from Raytheon Corporation spoke about a study they had conducted among their vast employee population. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

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In addition to the use of video games for recruitment purposes, which have been available for some time, the Department of Defense has begun embracing the use of combat simulators, culture-based eLearning , avatars, and even cell phone apps, all designed specifically for military use. As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S.

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

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Until recently, the debate over this question had two primary camps: academia and corporate America. And what used to be homework [solving problems] is now done in the classroom.” What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says.

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

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The problem, though, is that many primary schools are still geared to teach in ways that would be more or less recognizable to students from thirty years ago. When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?” And you’d be wrong.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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If you’re an employee in Finance at a non-headquarters location, chances are good that some corporate “right-sizing” is in the cards for your office. To avoid this problem, companies must build significant financial and human resources into ERP project plans for communications, training, and other organizational change management activities.