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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

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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Successful Online Employee Onboarding Strategies

TalentLMS

Pardon us for the cliches, but employee onboarding programs are in place to alleviate these very regressive feelings. Employee onboarding is an employee acclimatizing program! These training programs include screenshots or videos of software used by the company. Mandatory learning programs available for employee development.

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Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

That said, I’d like to share some of my ideas about how we need to change what we do to address on-demand learning and performance needs during design, development, and deployment of a training program. A current project I am working on is a national program for training workers in basic bulk propane plant operations.

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10 Training Techniques to Create Better Training Programs

Ed App

Training is only effective if you know the right training techniques to include in building your program. To find out, we’ve listed down the top training techniques that’ll work for any type of training program you develop. Mentoring is an essential training technique for any L&D program.

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Can An Enterprise Social Network Enhance Company IT Training With The Right Strategy?

IT Training Department Blog

While we do think eLearning with realistic software scenarios and practice is a great way to train for company technology, other methods are great at supplementing it. For instance, while contextual help is a great solution for corporate IT training , it sometimes works best paired with eLearning.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. Implementing his model does not include gathering data that would address program improvement efforts. But it wasn’t. According to McGoldrick, that is where Brinkerhoff’s Success Case Method (SCM) comes in.

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LMS: Strategy or Tool?

Upside Learning

LMS is a fairly common and used (or over-used) phrase in eLearning parlance and means, primarily a software system that allows customers to do a few or many things when it comes to adopting eLearning as a part of the overall Learning strategy. Is it strategy or is it just a tool?

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