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Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

Kapp Notes

This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization. If you try to sell the use of social media as a technology play, it will not work.

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Big Question - Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning

eLearning Cyclops

Learning Circuit's Big Question this month is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Find numerous people in IT who are already using social media and ask them to use the prototype. Management buy-in Demo its use to decision makers.

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May's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Learning Circuits' Big Question for May is "So what can, should, or will, we offer the digital generation by 2015?" We are already seeing the impact of social media and informal learning, but we will see it blend immensely with both classroom and e-learning. Much of which will be courtesy of open source projects.

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ASTD's Big Question for December 2008: New Learning

Kapp Notes

The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2008? Mostly about finding a good "model" for mobile learning course design, how others tend to view immersive learning environments and how Social Media is taking off in the least likely places. Tags: ASTD Big Question.

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The Big Question: Breaking down the organisational walls to learning

Clive on Learning

In the ASTD Learning Circuits blog this month, they comment on the fact that, in many organisations, learners are reaching outside of the organisation to enhance their learning experience, through social networking and other media. Why do so few Americans have passports and score so poorly in geography? The barriers are not that great.

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The Big Question: how can we leverage open content in workplace learning?

Clive on Learning

The March Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks why it is that open content initiatives such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium haven't had a bigger impact. Social media will not fill the dissemination gap, because most l&d people don't use them, at least not for professional purposes.

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Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning

The Learning Circuits

I've received various forms of the same question from different people over the past few years. The basic question is: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization? Which provides us this month's big question: Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning?