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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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Because the people on the edge were more likely to be connected to other network clusters, and therefore had access to information that was not available to people who were “buried” at the middle of a cluster. My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them.

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

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by Paul on April 13, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning Last week my girlfriend and I ate dinner at Darbar Indian Grill in Uptown Minneapolis with another couple (good food, but overpriced), and we got on the topic of surfing the net on the job. And she felt this to be acceptable.

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

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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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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices | Social.

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JIT Learning Society If I take a step back and try to think of the most obvious way the Internet has changed my life, I would say it’s changed how I access information. I think the majority of us use them throughout the day no matter where we are to communicate with others and access information.

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Training vs. Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices

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JIT Learning Society If I take a step back and try to think of the most obvious way the Internet has changed my life, I would say it’s changed how I access information. I think the majority of us use them throughout the day no matter where we are to communicate with others and access information.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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What’s more, they are beginning to use it at an increasingly young age – a recent study from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop (producers of Sesame Street) found that 80% of children age 5 and under use the Internet at least once a week. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ | Social.

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What is new, however, is the ratio of on-demand solutions to more traditional training offerings. The idea is to make useful information readily available to learners when they need it, even within some tight technological constraints. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.