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

Dashe & Thomson

Learning and development professionals should remember the Weak Ties theory when designing social learning systems. It’s not enough for people within functional areas (clusters) to connect. The real challenge, and value, is to find tools and processes that help people connect and think “outside the cluster.&#

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LMS – Evolving Into A Unified Learning System

Upside Learning

Moving towards a unified learning system. A unified learning system frees you up from broken workflows of disjointed applications by removing the barriers to learning with seamless, unified learning workflows. We had shared 5 Tips For Managing Effective Blended Learning Through An LMS.

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Is It Time To Move Onto A Unified Learning System?

Upside Learning

However, if the organization is somehow able to unify its LMS and mLearning platform into a single robust system, it can save a considerable amount of time, effort and consequently costs. A unified learning system can be an effective and efficient solution if it is able to do the following: Launch online courses.

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From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration

Jane Hart

Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I’ve changed this blog’s title from “Learning in the Social Workplace” to “Workforce Collaboration” Why? Well, to try and avoid the “learning” word or at least the term “social learning”! Let me explain.

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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

Docebo

Social learning can help today’s organizations keep up with the pace at which their business moves. More and more, organizations are turning to social learning to deliver exciting e- learning experiences to their customers, partners, and employees. What is social learning? Need proof?

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Social Learning: Are you starting from the right place?

Jane Hart

When I hear people ask for advice about how to “do” or “implement” social learning it reminds me of this Irish joke. In other words it requires a different approach than social training. “Paddy stopped cutting the hedge as the big car drew up beside him and an English visitor enquired, .

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Social Learning is NOT a new training trend

Jane Hart

I’ve written a few postings recently (notably Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does ) where I have tried to show how the fundamental changes in how businesses are operating, require a fundamental change in how the L&D function needs to view workplace learning. Some social tools.