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

Dashe & Thomson

The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. More about me here. Properly d.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Leaders are beginning to move away from controlling the discussion to facilitating the discussion. Early indications of this same paradigm shift can be seen in the learning and education arenas. Properly d.

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

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The questions prompt quite a lively and interesting discussion among online community members. The Learning Circuits Big Question for May is: How do we need to change in what we do in order to address learning/performance needs that are on-demand? This month, it is time for me to stop lurking and throw in my two cents.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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To avoid this problem, companies must build significant financial and human resources into ERP project plans for communications, training, and other organizational change management activities. In a recent post, he cites a recent poll by Panorama Consulting , in which IT executives are asked about the “deadliest sin” of ERP implementations.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

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And what used to be homework [solving problems] is now done in the classroom.” What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk. Properly d.

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The Lonely eLearner: Creating Social Learning Anchors | Social.

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The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning. Then all hell breaks loose.

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

When it comes to learning and training, devise an approach to your learning model that blends what your learners need to “know” with what they need to “do”. Discover the real problems and questions before you jump to the solution. Where’s their pain? What’s working? And more importantly, what’s not working? Properly d.