Learning with e's

JANUARY 11, 2010

A veritable feast of articles on social media is appearing in the academic press at the moment. 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. Social Software: new opportunities for challenging social inequalities in learning?

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Matrix

APRIL 11, 2019

Figuring out new ways of doing things and addressing issues are always in high demand. Social networks on the other hand are online groups of people who are acquainted or connected as friends, business contacts, or colleagues and use social software tools to stay in touch.

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Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2009

This is one of the questions addressed in the latest issue of Learning, Media and Technology. Neil Selwyn and Lyndsay Grant are to be applauded for bringing together an excellent, very readable special issue of the journal which focuses on Learning and Social Software. toward a more critical perspective.

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Training Industry

MAY 17, 2016

“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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Learning with e's

JULY 9, 2007

Just come back from talking to StudentNet, an influential group which meets regularly here at the University of Plymouth to discuss issues surrounding student use of networked resources. Landed on my desk I find the latest issue (No. Landed on my desk I find the latest issue (No. 21) of the Centre for Bioscience Bulletin.

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Wiki Wikipedia Social Software Lecture 40

Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2008

Previously hard-to-find articles on my wiki have morphed into leave-behind reference material, for example, Learning in Business or Seminal Documents. Two years ago, the focus was on how to apply social software for learning. The focus of my workshops is shifting, too.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 13, 2013

Another issue that may be causing this dearth of C-suite social participation is the misperception that it is a time waster. Ryan Holmes, CEO of social media management system HootSuite, said social media is an important asset inside and outside the organization. In a 2012 Fast Company article titled “The $1.3

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