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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. Go take a peek.

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Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? In his book, Brain Rules , Dr. Medina provides 12 simple rules that encapsulate what current science knows about how the human brain learns. We All Did. Properly d.

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Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves | Social Learning Blog

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Michael Sampson of Information Week offers a four-stage model to help companies think through the user adoption challenge in his book, User Adoption Strategies: Shifting Second Wave People to New Collaboration Technology. IT hopes users will immediately know what to do with the technology, but this is rarely a realistic expectation.

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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

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In Malcom Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point , Gladwell introduces several influential personality types, one of which is the Connector – an individual who knows large numbers of people and is in the habit of making introductions. Outlook, address book, contact list). Your business networks can be your most valuable resources!

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

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Don’t Throw Out the Baby with the Books. There is value in books, manuals, and written reference materials included in training activities, but don’t use words to replace examples, images, and experience. What’s working? And more importantly, what’s not working? Discover the real problems and questions before you jump to the solution.

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

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To start answering these questions, we have to acknowledge that formal learning, as we know it today, will not be effective in the future. Instead, we will need to put the workers themselves in charge of their own learning. This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog.

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My Learning Resolution For The Year (Hint: It's not “to be.

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How did this come about, you might wonder? Simple: as we all have, I drove someone home to a place I was unfamiliar with, and realized after dropping him off that I didn’t have the slightest clue how I had got there. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.