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The Ultimate Brain Food: Performance Support | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Web-based learning portals are the ultimate brain food — extending brain power by positioning learning and How-To reference material close to the job, 24/7. According to Urban Dictionary: Your exobrain (or exo-brain) is your extended brainpower from the information you have access to from your computer or the web.

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The Social Learning Revolution in eLearning

TalentLMS

The boom in social media and the round-the-clock need to connect in communities is doing wonders for the eLearning industry. Social learning is an age-old learning and teaching strategy, backed by many cognitive scientists. Let’s examine some top benefits of social learning in organizations.

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How You Can Use Social Learning To Engage Your Learners

EI Design

Social learning could be anything – acquiring knowledge about something when discussing casually with your friends or colleagues, during a conversation with a co-passenger on a flight, or even learning when browsing and interacting with folks on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on.

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Learning Audiences Are Not Created Equal: Employees vs. Extended Enterprise

Talented Learning

Some HR and learning organizations are eager to move this extended enterprise agenda forward, but it’s not easy for those who have always operated inside the employee training “box.” ” Their education and experience is focused on instructional design, learning theory, content quality, and training efficiency.

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Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources , Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009. Learning Putty , November 20, 2009. Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources - Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009. Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources - Upside Learning Blog , November 2, 2009.

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Top 113 eLearning Posts and 28 Hottest Topics for 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Four roles for social media in workplace learning - Clive on Learning , September 28, 2010. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010. Taxonomy of Learning Theories - E-Learning Provocateur , January 12, 2010. The problem with E-learning games - Stoatly Different , February 5, 2010.

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Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

She is in a graduate school program and is a great self-directed learner: I’m learning about things like instructional theories, learning theories, how to tie learning to performance, how to tie learning to business requirements, and ways to measure all these things. Steve Hargadon: Web 2.0