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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

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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.

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

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A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. They’re sources of novelty and innovation (because they know quite different things than we do) and bridges to other social networks (because they know quite different people than we do).

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? Because video is, apparently, a perfect manifestation of social learning theory. less big companies, for more than 20 years. More about me here.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

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

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In more recent years, websites, wikis and blogs have entered the picture, creating social learning platforms that learners can modify themselves. In the past we did this by creating robust electronic performance support systems (EPSS) and making sure that learners knew how to utilize them.

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

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My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them. Instead, tell them where to get the information they need, when they need it. I am a member of the Dashe & Thomson running and biking teams, and captain of its small but emerging chess team.

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Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

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Just as the corporate world thought they had caught up to adult learning norms with the adoption of eLearning, and some with blended learning, along comes social learning. I believe user adoption or training should be developed with the intent of creating a social epidemic, or should we say ‘workplace epidemic.’