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Analyzing the ROI of Social Media in Training | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Analyzing the ROI of Social Media in Training by Jim on May 3, 2011 in social learning A continuing theme among my blog posts has been the difficulty of demonstrating the ROI of social learning initiatives.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Wednesday, May 06, 2009 Describing What You Do: Instructional Design Youre at a playground and you start talking to the mom sitting on the bench next to you. Me: Im an instructional designer. What do you say?

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Why eLearning Development Ratios Can be Hazardous to Your Career.

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Subject Matter Matter s – These surveys do a good job of accounting for varying levels of course complexity. Who’s Doing the Work – Skilled training developers will write and develop training faster than less experienced ones – frequently by a factor of two, three, or even more.

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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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Organizational change management, as usual, is right near the top of the list: A major contributor to the importance of change management stems from the impact on workers’ job roles, and the degree to which those changes can affect their careers. That impact likely includes process changes that may affect employees in a variety of ways.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

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How will organizations get them to adopt new business processes, procedures, or software systems when necessary? This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog. Cross writes: Once upon a time, people were paid to follow instructions. Now, work is more like improv theater.

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Why eLearning Development Ratios Can be Hazardous to Your Career

Dashe & Thomson

Subject Matter Matter s – These surveys do a good job of accounting for varying levels of course complexity. Who’s Doing the Work – Skilled training developers will write and develop training faster than less experienced ones – frequently by a factor of two, three, or even more.

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How Research Informs My Work

Experiencing eLearning

If you’re not active in L&D Twitter, you might have missed the big debate recently about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals. Essentially, any time you do instructional writing (scripts, online text, instructions, etc.),

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