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Maximizing Your Learning Experience with Social Learning Apps

Instancy

Introduction Social learning has become an increasingly important aspect of modern education. Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

E-Learning Provocateur

Quality content, for free, from some of the world’s most respected educational institutions? In terms of supporting the moocers in the organisation, I envisage L&D pro’s undertaking activities such as facilitating communities of practice, setting up buddy programs, and organising external meetups. Networking.

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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “Emerging Technologies for the Classroom”

Adobe Captivate

Teaching and learning practices benefit from the collective knowledge that social technology provides. Social media practices can facilitate new forms of collaborative knowledge construction. It encourages civic engagement in broader communities of practice. Administrative vision and planning are critical.

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Interesting Information via eLearning Learning

Tony Karrer

Ken Allan - Blogger in Middle-earth Ken talks about everything including some that come up for me Writing a Blog , Analytics , Communities of Practice , Photoshop , Pipes , Firefox , RSS. Other Sources - you can click and see what they write about on the left.

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Windmills on the mind

Learning with e's

Someone remarked that there are complex and comprehensive privacy and copyright rules in the user agreements in most social networking systems, but no-one ever reads them. Theme three was Open Education Resources. Tags: Bazaar open education resources digital identity cross operability. How much do we own our digital self?

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Privacy / Confidentiality - Limit the visibility. Security - This is no worse than any other form of electronic communication. SaaS, but this shouldn't hold you back. IP - Making sure it's clear about ownership of content is definitely an issue. Multiple authors - who owns at end. Not sure what else was implied. is discoverable.

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The future is not here yet

Learning with e's

You can literally tap into any community of practice that you are interested in and find people who are very clever and knowledgeable and get almost instant answers from them. They just have to be aware that there are privacy and identity issues, issues of safety and content management.