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Learning from The King's Speech | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Weber also points out how effectively additional techniques demonstrated in the movie – like music, movement, and humor – open the mind to learning. I’ll be seeing it again!

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

That’s all fair, and we should seek to accommodate as many people as possible in our pursuit of effective training. And yet that’s effectively what is happening when we present text visually and then have someone say it at the same time. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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The $2 Whiteboard Shows Power of Peer-to-Peer Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

It’s hard to overstate the importance of learner engagement when teaching complex new material, and in this case the $2 whiteboard is far more effective at gaining that engagement. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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The Renewed Importance of EHR Training – Meaningful Use Incentives.

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Despite hefty price-tags for initial set up (running to $60,000 per physician in some cases), these babies hold the promise of extensive savings that will more than offset initial investment in the long term. Up until now the effects of these failed implementations have amounted to little more than lost opportunities.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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They may by very knowledgeable about the technology behind a tool but can’t bridge the gap to explaining its usage to the people who will be using it, or they don’t know of the most effective learning solutions (e.g. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning).

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

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They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

Dashe & Thomson

To start answering these questions, we have to acknowledge that formal learning, as we know it today, will not be effective in the future. Instead, they will focus on organizing and tagging information, and creating systems – technical and social – that let individuals learn how and when it’s best for them.