QR Codes for Trainers

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Kella Price

Want to make your training more interactive? Would you like to engage learners, learn more about them, or offer them additional resources? QR Codes are a fun, effective way to increase interactivity and the likelihood of your learners applying their training. More »

Social Media Basics

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Jane Bozarth

Research indicates that as much as 70 percent of workplace learning is informal, occurring outside the classroom and in the spaces between formal training events. Social media is one way for the training department and the training practitioners to get into those spaces... More »

Looking Out the Window at the Future of Learning

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Jim Kouzes

The late Peter Drucker once commented, I never predict. I simply look out the window and see what is visible but not yet seen. In the spirit of Peters remark, Lisa Shannonassociate publisher at Pfeiffer, a Wiley Imprintand I sat down in the Wiley offices in San Francisc... More »

What Is the New Social Learning?

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Tony Bingham

To understand social learning, we must first understand social media. Social media is a set of Internet-based technologies designed to be used by three or more people. Its rarer than it sounds. Most interaction supported by technology is narrowcast (one-to-one), often w... More »

When to Use Social Media for Learning

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Michele B. Medved

Workplace learning professionals should focus on how social learningand its associated toolscan help achieve business goals. The transfer of knowledge has always been a social activity. Many years ago, workers learned skills through apprenticeship. More »