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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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Social media lend themselves naturally to support learning through discussions, collaboration and sharing. They also have the capacity to support personal learning. They are vital components of the web, and social media are important for education - because learning is essentially social and personal.

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Building Your Upskilling Strategy: Data vs. People

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This approach starts with your company’s business plan disaggregated into the top skills needed to support it, resulting in an organization-wide taxonomy for future skills. It created an assessment for G Whizzes, who would provide tech support on launch day, and 249 were selected. Take the Upskilling Strategy Audit today ! Data-Driven.

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The changing Web

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Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). geotagging).

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Parabolic learning

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We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, I asked the members of the two teams to research their arguments, with supporting evidence, and blog their ideas in preparation for next week's debate.

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

We talked about social media and how it will affect learning, we talked about how to bring learning closer to the workplace, we discussed whether or not the role of an e-Learning professional would change from a writer to somebody who moderates and gathers information and then will structure and republish it. There was not one outcome.

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Learning pathways

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The advent of social media, mobile communications and digital media facilitate large, unbounded personal learning networks that mimic the characteristics of rhizomes. Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways. Unported License.

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Data, People, or Something In Between: Clearing Your Path to Career Mobility

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In the past 15 years, innovative companies have imagined entirely new industries and upskilled workers to support them. This approach starts with the company’s business plan disaggregated into the top skills needed to support it, resulting in an organization-wide taxonomy for future skills. There are two ways to answer these questions.

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