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Transferring from Ning to Grou.ps

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

The Internet Time Community has been hosted on Ning for a little over three years. I was shocked and saddened when Ning announced that its free service was ending. Lots of non-profits had signed up on Ning. Ning could have at least provided a decent migration path away from their service. It wasn’t very difficult.

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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

This paper explores the range of current social networking choices and argues that like any tool, it should carefully evaluated in terms of affordances and course goals. An example of using a social networking tool, Ning, in an online class is reported.&#. Elgg & Ning as two social networking tools. Case study with Ning.

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Weekly Bookmarks (4/12/2010)

Experiencing eLearning

Presentation on teaching online with VoiceThread & Ning, including survey results with learner perspectives on how these tools helped create a sense of community. tags : e-learning , education , instructionaldesign , teaching , voicethread , ning , web2.0 , community , lms. .&#. tags : e-learning , research , training , education.

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Transforming Lives Through Courses And Coaching With Yoga Healer Cate Stillman

LifterLMS

Here is a point to pick up for course creators who are teaching difficult topics to their learners. One of the key benefits of her courses is that people with illnesses come to develop a healing process that is less dependent on medicines. For course creators, here is another insight from her teaching methods. That’s cool.

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6 tips to find the right tech tools for your blended learning course

LearnUpon

In this article, I’ll share tips that can help you find the perfect tech tools for your blended learning course. Blended lear ning is used by non-profit organizations, private learning institutions, and companies large and small. This approach can offer a vast array of benefits, but only if you find the right tools for the task.

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Online Learning Course Design

Tony Karrer

The Work Literacy online learning course is over and Michele Martin - Deconstructing the Work Literacy Learning Event and Harold Jarche - Post Work Literacy have posted their thoughts around the event. Here are some thoughts on the course and the implications for design of similar kinds of online learning courses.

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Remote Collaboration

Tony Karrer

At the core, when I look at what a team needs, it's a pretty simple list: Real-time Voice Screen Sharing Document Editing (sometimes) Asynchronous Share / collaborate on documents, web pages Discussion Notification Of course, I'm simplifying by leaving out things like video chat, recording, etc.