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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew?

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

This flexibility and ease of use could encourage impromptu learning events and meetings that can be set up in a moments notice, increasing the informal learning opportunities within and outside an organization. Users can create and join groups, connect with friends, display a profile, blog and microblog (similar to Twitter).

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Can Centralized and Decentralized Online Training Co-Exist?

Mindflash

Flexible learning strategies include a combination of formal (instructor-led) or informal (experiential, self-directed, impromptu) learning. Consider adding flexibility to course content by: Creating specific content for geographical locales or specific job functions (sales vs. support vs. engineering, for example).

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Can Centralized and Decentralized Online Training Co-Exist?

Mindflash

Flexible learning strategies include a combination of formal (instructor-led) or informal (experiential, self-directed, impromptu) learning. Consider adding flexibility to course content by: Creating specific content for geographical locales or specific job functions (sales vs. support vs. engineering, for example).

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Selection in Agile Learning Design

Big Dog, Little Dog

A classroom environment allows the learners to ask questions; however, there are good tools that allow you to compensate for this in a dL (distributed Learning [ only the L is capitalized ]) environment — Twitter (free) or Yammer (if you need a more secure environment). Flash file (swf): Shockwave Flash file.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Presentation: Twitter is Dead (really?) - Dont Waste Your Time , April 8, 2010 I was not privileged enough to be able to attend this years eLearning Conference at the University of Plymouth, but have been following some of the conversations and sessions on Twitter thanks to the #pelc10 hashtag. …Tags: Tags: Informal Learnin.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company say collaboration and collective intelligence are the engines of innovation. Collaboration is the key to success in both working and learning; they usually take place simultaneously. Social and informal learning are the hottest trends in corporation learning and development.