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

Dashe & Thomson

I learned that the Target Center in Minneapolis is the 28 th busiest building in the nation via Facebook today. That’s right, FACEBOOK! IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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What It Takes to Have a Healthy Learning Environment in Your Organization

Origin Learning

Facebook 5 Twitter 3 Google+ 2 LinkedIn 10 Pinterest 1 Jan 11th and 13th saw me sunning it up (figuratively speaking) in the stimulating setting of The Hindu Lit for Life festival in Chennai. A sumptuous spread of cerebral and endorphin-inducing fare, the subtext was learning, learning and more learning.

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Learning in 2024 #LRN2024

Clark Quinn

And I reckon most learners have begun to use technology in their own ways to get answers, whether via the Google, or social networks like FaceBook and LinkedIn. I expect they’re seeing more info dump/knowledge test, more and more ‘ click to learn more ‘, more tarted-up drill-and-kill. For which we should apologize!

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Bad Management Practices

The Performance Improvement Blog

This is the futile practice of trying to control social media, such as Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter, that employees might use at work. As Ryan says, if there is a problem with an individual who is abusing these communication tools, deal with that person, but don’t impose a policy on everyone because of the irresponsible behavior of a few.

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Learning Suite: The past of learning systems

Learning Pool

But the 20th Century was when organizational learning really took off. But, in actual fact, all this functionality was present in some form in the experimental learning system PLATO pioneered at the University of Illinois. This was the era when the tech giants that are now so salient in our world—Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc.—came

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Social play can be Social Learning

Ideaon

At work we do use social tools such as Skype, Yahoo Messenger and YouTube for learning purposes. When I ask about social learning in the work place, I normally get blank stares from potential clients, “Do you mean I should allow my employees play on Facebook at work?” Treat Social Media as a friend – not a time-wasting exercise.

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Paper Cuts

Learnnovators

I’ve been tinkering with it and, in the spirit of Virtual Reality Working Out Loud Week , I’ve decided to share with you what I’ve learned so far. I’ll also share my problems – and there are plenty of them – so if you can solve any for me I’d be grateful! Yet I struck more problems. THE DEVICE. A virtual tour, perhaps?

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