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Virtual Learning Environments for management and leadership training

Learning Pool

So, how does online learning counter the view that only traditional forms of training represent a real investment in what promising, motivated managers and potential leaders are looking for to develop their careers? At Learning Pool, we’ve invested heavily in developing a virtual learning environment in Stream LXP.

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The Benefits of Activity-Based Training

Jigsaw Interactive

Some of the benefits of activity-based learning are: Long-term memory retention Development of analytical thinking Increased collaboration skills Real-world connection to the information learned. These types of immersive learning tools are found in virtual learning environments like Jigsaw Interactive.

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Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 5

Upside Learning

How To Revamp Your Learning Model. There’s a lot of talk these days about informal learning vs. formal learning. This article advocates the development of an Informal Learning Environment (ILE) to work in tandem with a Formal Learning Environment (FLE) to support both the learning process and its administration.

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What is the 70 20 10 Model?

Growth Engineering

These special numbers are the perfect mix of informal and formal learning (2 parts informal learning, 1 part formal training to be exact!). Together, these two methods are often known as informal learning , since they don’t follow a specified pattern and happen on their own. Formal Versus Informal Learning.

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Can PeopleCloud support learning in all its contexts?

Clive on Learning

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. And the tools that they already have at their disposal, in the form of learning management systems and virtual learning environments, allow them to do this with varying degrees of success.

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Totara: re-shaping Moodle for corporate use

Clive on Learning

- I wanted to know whether Saba, one of the most successful of the big LMSs, could reinvent itself to accommodate informal learning. This time I’m exploring whether it is possible for one of the world’s most popular academic virtual learning environments, Moodle, to be adapted to suit the needs of corporates.

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Contemporary Employee Training Glossary

WalkMe Training Station

The forgetting curve is most closely associated with formal learning techniques. Informal learning. Informal learning is where the learner defines their own objectives. This sort of self-directed learning can occur in many forms, on and offline. Immersive learning.