An online phenomenon gathering momentum over the past two years or so, a MOOC integrates the connectivity of social networking, the facilitation of an acknowledged expert in a ?eld great article collection. Article: [link]. Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning, Aalborg, Denmark. Reconceptualizing facilitation and participation in a networked (MOOC) context | Full Circle Associates. Most of them have larger ambitious of scaling and becoming as much “network like” as much as smaller, bounded “community-like.”. MORE >>

I followed the link and found myself entranced by Mike VanDervort’s Confronting Social Media at Work.  It’s a great blog post that warns HR professionals about the need to get ready for the social media invasion.  Those Those who left comments about the post asked “how do you communicate the importance of social media to a leadership group that has no concept of its relevance in their personal or professional lives?&#   I get this type of question all the time.  Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team. Social Media in Plain English. MORE >>

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Category: Social Networking Platform. Elgg is a social networking engine and publishing platform for running your own social networking site on a public or private server. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform. Post from: The eLearning Coach 10 Social Media Tools For Learning. Audacity. MORE >>

Social networking sites such as Facebook provide a way to meet both of these goals, however according to a survey  54% of U.S. employers Organizations cite many reasons for banning Facebook and other social networking platforms including company privacy, productivity, and network security.  Here’s By supporting the use of Facebook and other social networking sites we are basically telling our employees it is OK to talk about our business online. Instead many experts suggest that companies create a social networking policy.  MORE >>

Going forward, and as best I can, I’ll use the term ‘ Connected Learning’ to describe a knowledge ecosystem made up of formal, informal and social learning behaviours and modalities. There are a few reasons for this: Learning will forever be part formal, part informal and part social (see this CLO Magazine article I wrote for more details). Modalities involve a connection of sorts too, be it connecting with a classroom or a conference (formal), with a mentor, a book, a website (informal) or with a blog, a tweet or a discussion forum (social). Learning 2.0 MORE >>