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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Wikis are an easy place to start the promotion of collaborative learning spaces, and clients seem to be willing and able to accept this informal tool into their everyday lives. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg. Going back to Cammy’s latest post, select companies are taking the leap and already seeing the reward.

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TCC09: Wikis that Work: Effective Wiki Practices for Virtual Learning Communities

Experiencing eLearning

In this session, we will share a collaborative wiki created by a self-organized, self-managed group of online graduate students. They effectively managed issues of trust, workload, and learning within their social network. We will discuss our observations and recommendations for using wikis as a collaborative learning tool.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Trust me…trying to train folks on a software package that they will neither need nor use is an exercise in frustration for everyone involved, not to mention a waste of time and money. Suddenly, the manager must learn to trust his people on another level. Terrifying! Properly d.

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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

He declares: “It is time for companies to grow up, and that rather than calling their customers ‘social’ and focusing on tools that are mostly meant for private conversations, they begin to build trusted relationships through their own channels and tools, and follow a business – not bozo – logic. Properly d.

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Daily Bookmarks 04/27/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Series of posts from Darren Rowse on Problogger about blogger credibility and building trust through longevity, experience, expertise, generosity, transparency, and more. tags: collaboration , global , wiki , k-12 , digitalstorytelling , education , writing. Blogger Credibility. tags: blog , identity , reputation.

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Beyond Corporate Training: How Social Learning is Changing Travel

Dashe & Thomson

I know that training developers can go through and update their courses or performance support systems, but what if we added a microblog or wiki feature to each course, allowing users to comment on the training and give advice to other learners? It really comes down to trust. Maybe learners could actually give advice to the trainers!

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The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns

Jane Hart

These are not just trivial materials, but valuable performance support resources, for example: How-to materials at sites like Wiki How – “ the world’s collaborative how-to manua l&# – that provide clear steps on how to do something, e.g. How to add a movie to an iPad.

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