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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

The meaning of ‘community’ has changed drastically with the spread of the internet and the rise of all the social networks. No longer confined by geography, people who share the same interests can connect, share and grow as a community online. Read more: Expanding your company L&D strategy to CoPs.

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Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning

Experiencing eLearning

This can be the social network. Also need to think about opportunity cost–what are you giving up to spend time on social media? That is a measure of social learning within our company. Examples (from The Social Enterprise Blog ): Caterpillar 3000 communities of practice = $75 million saved as of 5 years ago.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Developed a course on social networking for business. Use online library databases to research social networking. Past predictions about online communities assumed text because that was what was available. Provided a bunch of stats on social networking usage–I’m not taking notes on all that).

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Course Development+Social Network+Commerce

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I mean, let's say I'm at a high tech company and someone says, "we need all of our engineers to know the basics of thermal dynamics". Shouldn't we ALL be able to come together and work as a community of practice to share the work we've done? I'm knocking around this idea in my head and just wanted to see what people thought.

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Close the Digital Skills Gap in the Workplace with Technical Training

IT Training Department Blog

Just because young kids grow up with technology prevalent doesn’t mean they know how to use company technology. In other words, employees don’t know as much as a company needs them to know. Of course, it shouldn’t all be on the company. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

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Successful Online Employee Onboarding Strategies

TalentLMS

In this article, we share with you some innovative ways to use your company’s online portal to change the way employees are brought into a company. Companies now offer sign-on bonuses, yearly bonuses, a percentage of stock, competitive health and tuition benefits to attract the top talent. Your competitors.

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Setting the tone for your online learning community

Logicearth

Learning together as part of this social network is a fundamental foundation of these programmes. For theorists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, learning is an act of social participation and is not just about having knowledge given to us. In other words, interacting with your peers via debate and discussion online.