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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

This YouTube-based learning environment was founded in 2004 by former Boston hedge-fund manager Salman Khan, and today contains more than 2,200 lectures on more than 100 topics (mostly math related). In an effort to bridge the time and distance gap, he started making 10-minute videos of math lessons and posting them on YouTube.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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So, here’s my leap from that “over-the-partition” informal learning scenario to how social media can support social learning: YouTube (in other words, video learning). Because video can be the virtual “over-the-partition” colleague. What users really want is to lean over the partition and say “Hey, how do I do this?” Properly d.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. As I write this blog, the man now has 94,894 followers on Twitter and every major news outlet in the world is scrambling for an interview. Can you say future book deal?

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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

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Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Properly d. All Rights Reserved. Visit us at dashe.com

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 – C4LPT Survey

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The final list of top 100 tools for learning for 2010 is now out on Jane Hart’s website. A quick look at the top 10: Twitter – micro-updating tool. YouTube – video hosting and sharing tool. Top100 Tools for Learning 2010. I see great gains made by some of the tools while I have not even experienced them as yet.

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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

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The big story last week was how Facebook and Twitter played a lead role in the Egyptian protests against Mubarak, allowing people to bypass the Internet shutdown and post messages via telephone calls. But for every argument there is a counterargument. Properly d. All Rights Reserved. Visit us at dashe.com