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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

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SCORM, LMS, AMS, LCMS, API, JITT, what does it all mean?! eLearning -Also referred to as internet-based learning, web-based learning, and online learning is any training or education delivered via computer. If you’d like to learn more, check out this article from eLearning Industry.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina. Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning.

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The student will become the master! But how? Adapting the Feynman 3-Step Mastery Technique to Online Learning

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If you have the resources, you can take this step even further by utilizing online documents or discussion boards, like the ones we offer in KD LMS , thereby challenging learners to help each other process the new information and write things out. Offer them the active task of organizing new material into groups or a logical order.

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Bridge the Skills-Gap with Competency Based Learning

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Dear Associations, I am trying to get into a skilled labor position at company X. Dear Associations, Help! Associations, the letters above represent your prospective members, and what they want is a career. I could have joined an association to get better. What would make me join an association today?

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

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Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator. Introduce your information slowly.

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Competency-Based Learning: How to Bridge the Skills-Gap

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especially within those industries that are supported by professional associations. Continuing education is needed to address the crisis, but while most associations do provide education, a number of third-party suppliers have entered the marketplace as well. A Social Learning Network. – Increasing their overall relevancy.

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

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Through an interview with John Congemi, senior manager of retail learning and development, we learn that all training initiatives at Best Buy now center on the three pillars of ROLE: freedom, co-creation and a robust library of learning content. Properly d.