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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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Social Media & Learning, HTML 5, Brain Training, & Wikis

Big Dog, Little Dog

Spies, Twitter and gardening: social media meets learning - Donald H Taylor in Corporate Training. The best memory enhancer is exercise, Snyder says. For more on exercise and the brain, see " Fit Body, Fit Mind? '] Secondarily, a good diet and an active social life have brain benefits. Frankly, I have my doubts.

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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. 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. Level 3: Behavior. We All Did.

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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. It is amazing ho.

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Measuring Project Success: Thoughts for the Training Professional.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Measuring Project Success: Thoughts for the Training Professional by Jim on April 24, 2011 in Project Management/Project Delivery When we think of the concept of “success,” it often seems relatively straightforward. It is amazing ho.

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5 Steps to a Successful Blended Learning Strategy

Learning Rebels

Here are just a few examples: Knowledge Sharing Tools: Wiki builders, project management tools (Trello, Asana etc) Collaboration Tools: Areas to have continuous conversations and share information (i.e. Ensure the content isn’t just about a new lesson, but about group feedback and peer review exercises.

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4-Step Method for Improving Learning Retention

LearnDash

This can take many forms, including reading some sort of case study, watching a video online, listening to presentation, or basic wiki-research. It can be an exercise, case study, multi-day in nature (if possible). It gives the learner an opportunity to collect content based on the topic. Determine Knowledge Baseline.

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