Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2010

Two articles that have caught my eye deal with social software in education, and both have landed on my desk in the last few weeks. If you're interested in the impact blogs, wikis and social networking can have on the social and cultural dimensions of education, then take a read of them. Reference: Hughes, G.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

August 2009. –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Tuesday, September 08, 2009. Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning <!–( –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Tuesday, September 08, 2009. –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Thursday, September 10, 2009.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 19, 2009

August 7, 2009 to August 14, 2009. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points - Learning Visions , August 11, 2009. Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. Upside Learning Blog , August 7, 2009.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

KM World 2009 is next week. A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. Furthermore, far too many CLOs take no responsibility for the social media that makes collaboration work. Cheap, simple conferencing tools let workers meet wherever there’s an online connection.

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Janet Clarey

JANUARY 2, 2009

Saba’s most recent social learning announcement is called “Saba Social&# and is a robust enterprise social networking solution that uniquely combines a rich person profile, competency-driven expertise, real-time collaboration, and a comprehensive Web 2.0 A: Ben Willis - For all the recent buzz around Web 2.0

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Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

Dan Pontefract, in his most excellent post The Standalone LMS is Dead makes the following argument: “Set up your ‘Facebook for the organization’ by embedding an LMS (or LMS like features) into your enterprise-wide collaboration platform. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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