Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Properly d. Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

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. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning). Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

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. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 11, 2011

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, we will need to put the workers themselves in charge of their own learning. This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 2, 2011

Up until now the effects of these failed implementations have amounted to little more than lost opportunities. Simply put, in most cases failed EHRs suffer from the same symptoms that are seen in countless other IT implementations: insufficient staff buy-in, insufficient training, and an ROI that is often slow to make itself apparent.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

These people hold the secret to effective networking – it’s not all about you ; it’s about all of you. In Malcom Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point , Gladwell introduces several influential personality types, one of which is the Connector – an individual who knows large numbers of people and is in the habit of making introductions.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Through Project MMOWGLI and games like VBS 2, the military is taking the lead in exploring the potential of games to change the face of learning and research.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Great Survey Completion Rate Dilemma Solved (Maybe) by Jim on December 22, 2010 in feedback , marketing The holidays are upon us, which means gifts, family, services… and the end of the fiscal year. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Great Survey Completion Rate Dilemma Solved (Maybe) by Jim on December 22, 2010 in feedback , marketing The holidays are upon us, which means gifts, family, services… and the end of the fiscal year. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? by Andrea on February 23, 2011 in social learning The other night I attended a lecture at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? To be effective the game must make work seem like play. It is not enough, however, to just add a Jeopardy or Wheel-of-Fortune game to our instructional design. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 29, 2011

I think it is safe to say that anyone who has touched a hot stove (no matter how many times your Mom said not to) learned after only one experience not to do it again. The cause and effect is easy to understand. Going back to the propane industry, there is a phenomenon called auto-refrigeration. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” They both do great work.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

Properly d. Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What more would you need to learn effectively on your mobile device? Best Buy has tapped into a present-day societal truth: people prefer learning to being taught. Mobile devices are just one set of tools that can be utilized to deliver this flexible, on-demand learning. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What more would you need to learn effectively on your mobile device? Best Buy has tapped into a present-day societal truth: people prefer learning to being taught. Mobile devices are just one set of tools that can be utilized to deliver this flexible, on-demand learning. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Allow your learners to actively share their experiences and effectively leverage the knowledge and experience of your learners to help them teach each other. This helps encourage direct application and prevents learners from leaving the session without an idea for how they’re going to apply their new knowledge. Learners as Teachers.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” They both do great work.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Gliffy is an online flow charting tool that provides a cost effective way to create and publish high-quality flow charts and diagrams. I needed a flow charting tool that could be accessed by the entire group with nothing more than an Internet connection. After a little research, I landed at Gliffy.com , and so far have not looked back.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Gliffy is an online flow charting tool that provides a cost effective way to create and publish high-quality flow charts and diagrams. I needed a flow charting tool that could be accessed by the entire group with nothing more than an Internet connection. After a little research, I landed at Gliffy.com , and so far have not looked back.

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Rapid eLearning

JANUARY 26, 2010

It’s also a great way to build a personal learning network. For example, if you build rapid elearning courses with Articulate products there are all sorts of resources available to you: Articulate’s Facebook page keeps you up-to-date on news and information. Many of the social media tools and sites have an RSS feed.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 28, 2008

eLearn: Case Studies - The Reluctant Online Professor 12. Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader 13. Innovate: Moving from Theory to Real-World Experiences in an e-Learning Community 15. Building community in an online learning environment: communication, cooperation and collaboration 16.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Just as water will always find its own level by the path of least resistance, individual learners, working in collaboration and unhampered by the precepts of authority, tend to do an excellent job of finding and sharing what they need to know efficiently and effectively, even if they don’t necessarily know what they are looking for to begin with.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 2, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Analyzing the ROI of Social Media in Training by Jim on May 3, 2011 in social learning A continuing theme among my blog posts has been the difficulty of demonstrating the ROI of social learning initiatives.

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eLearning Learning Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 16, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves by Paul on May 17, 2011 in user adoption User adoption is the single biggest challenge when implementing new technology – it is now and it has been for 15 years. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 14, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? There was no time, given the amount of material we had to get through in that day, to even learn their names, let alone how to communicate with each one of them most effectively.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 24, 2009

It makes more sense to me to train the organisation’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in rapid e-learning authoring. Then, whenever a learning need arises, the SME has both the knowledge and the skills to develop their own e-learning solution, quickly and effectively.

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eLearning Weekly

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

We connect elearning buyers and sellers in an easy-to-use online marketplace where developers publish and sell their courses and training managers find the off-the-shelf content they need to create an effective and up-to-date workforce. JB: There’s no place I’d rather be than here, making elearning accessible, effective and fun!

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LearnUpon

DECEMBER 3, 2018

While a learning management system is one of the most important eLearning tools you need to have, there are many nifty online apps, programs and systems designed to make your eLearning experience simpler. Tomato Timer is a website and app dedicated to combating procrastination, resulting in more effective time management.

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LearnUpon

APRIL 26, 2018

Today, almost all eLearning professionals appreciate the importance of engaging learners. Once you import PowerPoint content to Storyline , the effects you add will help to ensure that a learner has absorbed important information before progressing. Tool: YouTube. What it does: YouTube hosts a huge repository of video content.

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LearnUpon

MAY 12, 2016

What it does: Storify is a content curation tool that provides a visual way to tell stories gathered from social media sources like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr , YouTube, Google , and RSS feeds. Why it’s great for eLearning: eLearning professionals are extremely active on social media, with new stories published all the time.

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