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EdCast the Twitter of Education Raises 16 Million in Latest Funding Round

Training Industry

“We learn more when we learn together,” according to the “Harvard Business Journal,” and social media has likely increased our need for social interaction. Social media enables users to observe and learn from each other, which psychologists such as Lev Vygotsky and Albert Bandura believed was crucial for effective learning.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross

Before you look at workplace learning, you’ve got to look at the workplace, and by 2014, organizations will look so different from today, you won’t recognize them. Social mobile computing. Social software. Social accounting tools. I’ll try to guess 5 years out. Self-organizing mesh networks.

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Lectora e-Learning and IBM to Offer Social Learning Solutions

Trivantis

Lectora User Conference 2014. In response to this informal style of learning, organizations are investing in social learning solutions now more than ever before. into employees’ day-to-day activities, showing that social software is currently becoming mainstream among businesses. Theres new content added every week.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

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