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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Friday Finds — Writing for Learning, Transform Boring Answers, L&D Curation

Mike Taylor

13 peaks we reach at 40 or later News & Notes 3-Steps To Transform BORING Answers Into Captivating Stories In this conversation with Chris Do, René Rodriguez shares a 3-step method for transforming ordinary answers into captivating stories. Tech Tools & Tips If tools are your jam, check out my new Work Smarter newsletter.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

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by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you. Don’t be afraid to let your learners be creative and help define the ways in which they achieve the course objectives. Properly d.

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100 Twitter accounts for Philomaths (Lovers of Learning)

Jane Hart

Astronomy News : @astronomy The latest astronomy news, curated by the [Inside] team. Learn Everyday : @coolestlifehack Posting mind blowing information. Learn Something daily with us. Learning : @factsguide The most unimportant things you’ll never need to know.

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The Key to Adoption of Collaboration Tools: Process Integration

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The “official” collaborative workflow in many companies involves Outlook for e-mail, an ERP system for many routine tasks like creating and routing purchase orders, and an intranet for company-sanctioned news. Don’t ship off your employees to a separate site to socially engage & collaborate.

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The Death of the Traditional Web: Implications for Self-Directed Learning

Dashe & Thomson

Within that shrinking slice of online time, Facebook is increasingly the portal for everything. As I noted in an earlier post , the concept of trusted users adding their little tidbit of filtered information to the collective knowledge of the hive is exactly why Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter (e.g.

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How to Improve Learning Outcomes With Performance Support

Dashe & Thomson

Given that the goal of instructional designers and training developers is to improve employee performance, it’s surprising that many continue to create blended learning programs with little or no reliance on performance support tools or systems. Build performance support into every blended learning effort. In Summary.