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Happy Thanksgiving – It’s Good for the Brain!

Learningtogo

Our brain is conditioned from eons of evolution to scan our environment for potential threats and rewards. Dopamine has been shown to reward positive behavior, such as exercise. The social interaction and verbal expression of specific things you are grateful for will stimulate additional pathways to the same gratitude behavior.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Last year we've experimented with various social media to improve a sharing event for about 100 participants (for more details see my older blogpost ). This is not too difficult when all your participants are social media adepts, you announce your hashtags and off they go. So how can you still use social media?

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What is Capacity Building and Why Should You Care About It?

Acorn Labs

Social, or shared culture and relationships and networks. How to assess and build organisational capacity If capacity building is also an exercise in building resilience, adaptability, sustainability and more efficient ways of work, then we can make a couple of assumptions. Structural, such as policies, procedures and practices.

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What is Capacity Building and Why Should You Care About It?

Acorn Labs

Social, or shared culture and relationships and networks. If capacity building is also an exercise in building resilience, adaptability, sustainability and more efficient ways of work, then we can make a couple of assumptions. A capacity assessment is somewhere between an environmental scan and a needs analysis.

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Happy Thanksgiving – It’s Good for the Brain!

Learningtogo

Our brain is conditioned from eons of evolution to scan our environment for potential threats and rewards. Dopamine has been shown to reward positive behavior, such as exercise. The social interaction and verbal expression of specific things you are grateful for will stimulate additional pathways to the same gratitude behavior.

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Gamification Techniques in Corporate Training

Cognigix

Target’s Cashier Game was introduced as a gamified system where the cashiers can receive instant feedback by playing a game with red and green lights that blink to show if the items were scanned optimally during the checkout. Development of Cognitive Skills: It is believed that the more you exercise your brain, the stronger it becomes.

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So many learning style tests, so little time.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I thought a learning style test was a nice ramp up for an exercise where people had to blog about their own facilitator style - from the idea that it is good to know your own preferences and biases as a trainer/facilitator. Hoping this awareness help you to try to stretch and integrate opposite preferences in your design.