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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

So how can we, as instructional designers and eLearning developers, avoid the problems created by eLearning-in-a-vacuum? These are just a few ideas for social anchors that might help create a more social learning enabled environment for the lonely eLearner. As VP, Instructional Design Services for Dashe & Thomson, Inc.

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Creating Mastermind Retreats and Building WordPress Tools for Developers with Brad Touesnard the Founder and CEO at Delicious Brains

LifterLMS

We discuss creating mastermind retreats and building WordPress tools for developers with Brad Touesnard the founder and CEO at Delicious Brains in this LMScast hosted by Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. At Delicious Brains , Brad has developed four plugins that can help WordPress website developers with various aspects of website building.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010.

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

Dashe & Thomson

By providing a blended experience we create the opportunity for our learners to first absorb information, then ask questions, challenge assumptions, and solicit experiences which they can share with others. 5 Tips for Creating Better Blended Experiences Remember “Transition to e-Learning” Development Tools.

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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. Now, quick go see the movie before the Academy Awards this Sunday. I’ll be seeing it again! Discovered via Brent Schlenker’s Corporate eLearning and Development blog. Properly d.

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

Dashe & Thomson

The Washington Post recently ran an article on Project MMOWGLI (Massively Multiplayer Online Wargame Leveraging the Internet), a new MMORPG being rolled out by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) that will allow thousands of players to participate in solving geopolitical crises created by hypothetical pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer. Implementing his model does not include gathering data that would address program improvement efforts. According to McGoldrick, that is where Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method (SCM) comes in. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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