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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

Upside Learning

The new app is called simply Reader’s Digest and is a free app with one free sample / preview issue that offers a sample table of contents and select story previews. How to Have a Learning Conversation. Reader’s Digest – one of the world’s most widely-read magazines – has launched its iPad edition. Informal Workplace Learning.

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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? I actually record valuable informal conversations in the wiki, before the value of those just were lost over time.&#. Is that something we should measure too? Hard/soft benefits.

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8 Types of Online Communities: Examples & Tips on How to Build Yours

learnWorlds

We explore the characteristics of each through examples and offer practical tips on how to build and nurture these communities , ensuring they remain vibrant, engaging, and beneficial for their members. 36% of users prefer online communities because they believe that they can have more meaningful and engaging conversations over there.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. As a teacher, we learn how to manage that.

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Why your Enterprise Social Network is your most valuable social learning platform

Jane Hart

Social learning is a natural everyday phenomenon; simply put, we learn from our colleagues as we work with them. For this reason the new enterprise social platforms (like Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) that underpin social collaboration are your most valuable social learning platforms.

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Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models

Tony Karrer

I had an interesting conversation with Patrick Randolph from TalkWheel about different kinds of asynchronous conversation models that are emerging and how they might fit into broader eLearning Initiatives. Below I've captured aspects of our conversation (interestingly enough done via email - how old school).

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Learning from others through Enterprise Social Networks (ESN)

Matrix

If nowadays an adult person needs to find out how to do something (bake an apple pie, for example) he or she will most probably turn to the internet and search for videos that illustrate how the delicious fruit filled pastry comes to be. How Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) works. Yet it does not work only with children.