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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?” Properly d.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

It sounds like Weejee is growing quickly with Ian and Tracy at the helm, but they too are frustrated with the slow adoption of informal learning. ILT vs. WBT vs. informal learning). Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 Properly d.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

Dashe & Thomson

The Sound of Silence → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. More about me here. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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The Temporary Staffing Revolution | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I liked the sound of that. Depends on the client. Depends on the market. Depends on the communication channel. Our director of training development called us an Enterprise Training Partner today. Should I use it? Probably depends who I talk to tomorrow. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Shoving the med student into a room with a patient and basket of supplies and leaving them to learn by trial and error sounds much worse to me. It might be unnerving to think about being a guinea pig for a medical student learning to draw blood in the supervised “do one&# phase, but what is the alternative? Properly d.

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eLearning – Are We Missing The Point?

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eLearning doesn’t really measure, or have the capacity to measure, “Kirkpatrick Level 3 – Transfer of knowledge”, let alone think about Level 4. In my professional experience eLearning is primarily used to replace Instructor Led Training (ILT) or deliver a rapid deployment of a consistent message. What do I use?