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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation

Infopro Learning

We will be sharing information on decreasing the learning curve on our blog through the Timing is Everything series, but to read more now download the Timing is Everything White Paper! 2 These peer-to-peer learning events can take place in a classroom or virtually, but should be facilitated by an experienced trainer. Sources: Jacobs, R.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with e's

Milgram''s question was, how many someones are in the chain?'' (Watts, 2003, p38.) So Milgram''s notion of six degrees is not so much a theory of learning, more a social contact theory, but it has significant implications for learning in the social media age. Social media can reduce the degrees of separation.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

This is number 4 in the series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future.' Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, the Web has become more social.

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LEARNNOVATORS GAZES INTO THE FUTURE OF E-LEARNING WITH SAHANA CHATTOPADHYAY

Learnnovators

Her work with various companies like Tata Interactive Systems, Zensar Technologies, ThoughtWorks and Future Group has given her a width of experience that spans instructional design, workplace learning strategy, knowledge management, social learning and community management, and people development. and others.

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The future of intelligence

Learning with e's

This is the third in a series of blog posts on the future of learning and technology. In my previous blog post I examined the debate about whether we are becoming more intelligent or less intelligent as a result of our prolonged and habituated uses of technology. There are examples of how such cyborg existence might come about.

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The CoLab Podcast Episode 4: Delivering meaningful learning experiences with Jen Jones

Coassemble

It was 2003 and I started a Google site when Google sites were like before Wikis. However, by 2011, when Jen had begun transitioning her blog content and followers to her TPT site, she was initially reluctant to sell her content. So how did Jen’s consulting and eCommerce first start out? “It