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The power of the group: Using wikis in corporate training

Matrix

Wikis are engaging and easier to navigate. Wikipedia is the most popular wiki out there. A wiki is “a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser.”. You can set up wikis whenever there’s a topic or a skill that team members should acquire.

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How to Make Wikis Part of Your Training Program

Mindflash

With the Encyclopedia Britannica abandoning its 244-year-old printed version in response to the dominance of Wikipedia, and Britain’s education minister calling for a “wiki approach” to designing the curriculum for schools, wikis deserve a role in employee training and learning. The case for wikis.

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Wikis - Public vs. Controlled - Why There's No eLearning Wiki

Tony Karrer

18, 2006 - see [link] - which aims to address exactly the issues I'm discussing below in Wikipedia. I received an email asking me if I knew of any Wikis that provided information on eLearning concepts. there's not really a place where you can find a Wiki that covers eLearning concepts. Update Sept. Okay, onto the question.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Definition of the tool. A wiki is a self-organizing knowledge web site. A wiki is a discussion. Wiki software allows users to create, edit and link web pages easily. Wiki software is often used to create collaborative websites. Best Use of Tool. Collaborative sharing and commenting on information.

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What is Skills Management?

Gyrus

It being 2015 the first place I looked is Wikipedia (of course) and found this: Skills Management. Terrific, a Wiki about skills management! The Wiki really does sum up many important elements of skills management: Definition: The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Because video is, apparently, a perfect manifestation of social learning theory. Properly d.

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My Top Ten Tools for Learning 2009

Experiencing eLearning

Wikipedia is the first place I check for basic, “good enough&# information on many topics. It’s definitely a primary tool for developing learning in our process. Wikispaces is also my preferred wiki for small group work in courses, unless the work is simple enough to use the internal Sakai wiki.