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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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For those of you that use web-based aggregators like Google Reader but have not yet made room for Tweets, Twitter is an aggregator on steroids. Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. Properly d.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

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And the only way they can keep up is by learning for themselves. Learning has become the work. If you question whether organizations can succeed by treating employees like members of an improv theater troupe, just look at Google – where employees are encouraged to spend one day a week working on “own” projects.

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Moving from Teacher to Facilitator | Social Learning Blog

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Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. So how do you keep it real? Move from being a teacher to facilitator. Properly d.

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Can Learnist Hold the Key to Enterprise Social Learning?

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Augmented reality has a potential to revolutionize learning because of its ability to overlay helpful information not normally seen by the naked eye onto the objects we view. Applying the Learnist Concept to Enterprise Learning. This week, however, I came across something a bit more current called Learnist (created by Grockit ).