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

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work.

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Top 9 Competencies of an Informal/Social Learning Designer

Learnnovators

However, some of the shifts may require us to move beyond the traditional definitions of ‘learning’. Informal/Social learning is one such major revolution (other than mobile learning and gamified learning) that demands a shift in the mere thinking of ‘learning’. Informal/Social Learning Design Competencies.

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Social play can be Social Learning

Ideaon

I have been asked a half-dozen times about my thoughts on Social Learning within corporations. At work we do use social tools such as Skype, Yahoo Messenger and YouTube for learning purposes. This makes me wonder whether everyone is classifying social learning as social playing.

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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. Leveraging social learning with the eLearning content is the new norm of eLearning courses.

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TOP 9 COMPETENCIES OF AN INFORMAL / SOCIAL LEARNING DESIGNER

Learnnovators

However, some of the shifts may require us to move beyond the traditional definitions of ‘learning’. Informal/Social learning is one such major revolution (other than mobile learning and gamified learning) that demands a shift in the mere thinking of ‘learning’. Informal/Social Learning Design Competencies.

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Showing the value of social media

Jay Cross

How do you cost-justify social learning initiatives? Social learning is no different from other business investments. Social media generally delivers astounding returns. Draw analogies to what other companies have accomplished with social media: Large company implements an organizational wiki informally.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

The most important learning occurs in the conversations that employees have with their supervisors and co-workers, in the conversations that teams have about team development and effectiveness, and in whole organization experiences with problem-solving and planning.

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