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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Wikis are an easy place to start the promotion of collaborative learning spaces, and clients seem to be willing and able to accept this informal tool into their everyday lives. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina. Properly d.

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Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki

Tony Karrer

18, 2006 - see [link] - which aims to address exactly the issues I'm discussing below in Wikipedia. I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts. there's not really a place where you can find a Wiki that covers eLearning concepts. The article on eLearning 2.0

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

An excellent article from Cross Pollination Media, titled “ Are ‘Digital Natives’ Better Suited for Mobile Learning? Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. Properly d.

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Wiki Traffic - What Gets Visited on Wikipedia

Tony Karrer

Interesting article - What is Popular on Wikipedia and Why? million articles and received 43 million unique visitors from the US in January 2007. People type in search terms into their search engine and Wikipedia articles come up high in the search results because of high page rank or quality of content.

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5 Steps to a Successful Blended Learning Strategy

Learning Rebels

However, as time has marched on, organizations face certain problems using this delivery method, such as logistic issues, high cost of loss productivity, inability to connect learning back in the workplace, the inability to provide learning reinforcement and the list continues. That’s not a blend, it’s a technical hodgepodge.

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Shaping an eLearning Solution

Zephyr Learning

Throughout the eLearning series of articles we have referred to game based learning and the need to use utilise the game mechanics to deliver stimulating learning. That being said, the work being carried out by Rusticci with Project Tin Can (the new SCORM) will go some way into solving this issue, (if it works of course).

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An Open LMS: CourseKit

Kapp Notes

According to an article in Forbes called Will Coursekit Launch Up-End Blackboard? Savvy professors have been using blogs, wiki’s and even Facebook to manager courses outside of the LMS but there are limitations, lack of integration, difficulty with grade issues and keeping things private, CourseKit hopes to change all that.

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