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Using Social Media for Learning: Tools & Practices #BHsocialmedia

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes from a webinar presented by Brandon Hall on Wednesday, April 26 2011. (I Used Ektron ( www.methodfactory.com ) a content management system – which allowed search, tagging, RSS, links, blogs, polls, surveys. Everyone has their own profile like they do on Facebook. Draw knowledge from dealerships.

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Mobile Learning: A Designer’s Guide to Fighting Learner Distraction

SHIFT eLearning

If modules do not meet this criterion, learners will move on to more interesting things or use their devices for other purposes like games and Facebook. A research conducted by Yahoo! in late 2011 confirmed that users engage in short activity burts. Structure information so it can be easily accessed” (Malamed, 2011).

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

eFront

With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of students use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias for research. 1990: First search tool for the web (Archie) was created.

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

eFront

With almost 30 percent of the human population, or 2 billion people, using the internet; and 94 percent of US students equating research with using Google or other search engines, it comes as no surprise that 75 percent of students use Wikipedia and online encyclopedias for research. 1990: First search tool for the web (Archie) was created.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

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. A quick social media search also turned up a number of comments on the subject. Theme by mg12.