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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

I received a question this week related to Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank : I successfully launched a discussion forum for a small group of lending assistants within my bank. Of course, there’s no easy answers here, but lots we can discuss and learn around this. That forum is still up and running.

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ICICTE 2007 Heraklion

Learning with e's

He got us running round the room doing many exercises and discussion around the idea of using Web 2.0 social software in the classroom. I hope to promote some healthy discussion on exactly what e-learning is, and the boundaries within which is can be defined. More on this also later. In the meantime, it's now 11.30

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Firstly.the Social Web connects people together At Plymouth University, we very quickly began to explore the ways Social Web tools could support our students. Around 2007 we started using blogs to support several of our student teacher groups that were geographically dispersed across the South of England. Wheeler, S. Wheeler, S.

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Breaking eggs

Learning with e's

It's my opening gambit in a chapter called 'Destructive Creativity on the Social Web' in which I discuss the volatile and contentious nature of wiki content generation. My chapter appears in an edited volume by Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

2007 Training Industry Report Summary This report covers stats on the industry's trends and growth over the last year and will appear in the upcoming Training magazine edition. We Learning, Part II Second part of an interesting article - We Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Part II. Understanding E-Learning 2.0

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Learning with 'e's: Mashing it up

Learning with e's

Blogs can encourage greater reflection on learning and enable students to enter into dialogue on specific topics (Kop, 2007). Interest is growing about how social software tools can provide added value to the learning process, and this is reflected in the growing literature on the topic. In this paper, Web 2.0 Osborne, M.

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Top 7 topics at this year's ALT-C

Learning with e's

In preparation for the forthcoming ALT-C 2007 conference, I glanced over the content of papers, posters, workshops and symposia on offer. It interested me to see that some key topics have emerged as the front runners for discussion. A quick trawl of titles and keywords revealed these top 7 favourite topics: e-Learning 31 Web 2.0

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