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Soft landing

E-Learning Provocateur

Muhammad Tahir Rabbani risked poking the bear on LinkedIn when he asked the Learning & Development Professionals Club: How can we differentiate between hard and soft skills? Successful application of these skills less obviously boils down to a number. In this way, we “harden” the skill.

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Why is Skills Management Important?

Gyrus

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

In several recent postings I’ve blogged (a lot) about skills and skill management. So what IS skills management? It being 2015 the first place I looked is Wikipedia (of course) and found this: Skills Management. Terrific, a Wiki about skills management! The post What is Skills Management?

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Game To Teach Researching Skills

Web Courseworks

With all the chatter about social learning and widely available information sources like Wikipedia, our students have been somewhat misguided at times about where to gather trustworthy information for research projects. Teaches real world skills. Some of the great points that it touches on: - Augmented reality experience.

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What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?

ej4 eLearning

According to Wikipedia: “Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.”. Modern Learning Management Systems can track employee use and skill development.

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5 Essential online survival skills by Howard Rheingold

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

In the meantime I found a video with Howard Rheingold about the 21st century skills. Howard states that the online skills, the 21st century skills are no longer nice to have, but are essential survival skills. The 5 skills he mentions are: Attention. So the skill is how to divide your attention?

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Nudge Theory: Tips To Enhance Corporate eLearning Outcomes

Infopro Learning

According to Wikipedia, nudge theory is a concept in political theory, behavioral economics, and sciences that promotes positive reinforcement and indirect techniques or recommendations that affect the behavior and decision-making of people. Several studies show that socializing can affect a person’s decision-making skills.

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