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Social Learning: An Ongoing Experiment

CLO Magazine

Psychologist Albert Bandura’s social learning theory suggests that people learn from one another through observation, imitation and modeling. Among the most adopted technologies are secure instant messaging, discussion forums, video channels, online shared work spaces and internal blogs.

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Social Learning Theory: What Is It & Its Importance in Workplace Training

Instancy

Social learning became the go-to workplace training approach during COVID-induced lockdowns. Read on to understand why you must adopt social learning as the way going forward in an age where managing remote teams is the new norm. Social Learning theory is no novelty. Aristotle once said that humans are “social animals.”

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Performance Support – Your GPS for Work

Ontuitive

People learn 70% of what they do by doing it, 20% through social learning, and 10% from traditional classroom training. Given that the average US employer spend $4,000 and 24 days to find a new employee, when you account for recruiting, lost productivity, job vacancy, and the impact on morale, poor onboarding costs are exorbitant.

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Using Webinars to Remotely Train Your Staff for as Little as Zero Cost

Capytech

Using Webinars to Remotely Train Your Staff for as Little as Zero Cost. While medical professionals and others on the frontline battle to care for the sick and save lives, businesses in other industries are looking for solutions that enable operations to continue while staff practice social distancing. What Are Webinars?

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Safety and Compliance: 3 Reasons Your Construction Firm Needs Training

Global eTraining

Cuts Costs. According to recent statistics , the total cost of injuries (both non-fatal and fatal) in the construction sector equals out to about $13 billion per year. According to recent statistics , the total cost of injuries (both non-fatal and fatal) in the construction sector equals out to about $13 billion per year.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Skype – instant messaging and VoIP call tool. Facebook – social networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools. The complete list has a very strong bias towards social tools. Google Reader – RSS feed reader.

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WhatsApp For Learning?

Origin Learning

But definition wise, it is a freely available, user friendly, cross-platform instant messaging app that requires an internet connection to work. No user IDs, no passwords- just the benefits of messaging, at a fraction of the cost. You probably say “WhatsApp” just as often as you’d ask someone “What’s up”.