Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

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Engaging course alumni using Facebook: the case of Ruforum

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The group began in 2009 through a need to track and engage alumni. The group has several administrators and an appointed Virtual Intern to moderate discussions (me). We make monthly work plans (with targeted milestones) to plan the discussions and find the best ways of engaging the alumni. How does the group function?

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Doctors versus internet: who is better at diagnosing?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Four out of five discusses the results with his doctor, and that is appreciated only moderately by the doctors. According to Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, every two days in 2010 there was as much information created as between the origin of the earth and 2009. The MOOC discussion shows how much we use online search.

Internet 102
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Introducting social media in organisations to improve the learning function is more difficult than you may think.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

For some time now, I have an evaluation report of an organization that has experience with the introduction of social media (like wikis and blog) in the organization since 2009. The organization chose a toolset with thematic wikis as a basis, supplemented with other social media such as social bookmarking, blogs and discussion forums. "We