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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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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Case studies, exercises, and simulations can be part of a continuum linking Levels 1, 2, and 3. This is ROE, not ROI. Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? with a post-test to measure learning for the entire program. I can now see how Level 2 can be used to evaluate role-based eLearning and instructor-led training.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Trust me…trying to train folks on a software package that they will neither need nor use is an exercise in frustration for everyone involved, not to mention a waste of time and money. View all posts by Andrea → ← Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? It was for their own good after all.

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Why Are Individual Online Courses and Exercises Useful for Building Organisational Capability? 

Acorn Labs

Individual online courses and exercises are training activities that learners undertake in isolation. Why are individual online courses or exercises good for building organisational capability? Long-term, individual online courses or exercises can make for more digestible and accessible learning experiences.

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Why Are Individual Online Courses and Exercises Useful for Building Organisational Capability? 

Acorn Labs

Individual online courses and exercises are training activities that learners undertake in isolation. Why are individual online courses or exercises good for building organisational capability? . Long-term, individual online courses or exercises can make for more digestible and accessible learning experiences.

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Recycle for a Greater ROI: How to Future-Proof Your Corporate Training Content

Infopro Learning

Rather than e-learning courses that can drag on for 30 minutes to an hour at a time on a multitude of subjects, breaking e-learning content up into modules of no more than two minutes long each for specific subjects is a powerful exercise in content modularization. Just-in-Time Training. John’s University in New York.

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Social play can be Social Learning

Ideaon

I have been asked a half-dozen times about my thoughts on Social Learning within corporations. At work we do use social tools such as Skype, Yahoo Messenger and YouTube for learning purposes. This makes me wonder whether everyone is classifying social learning as social playing.