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Formal learning & social networking

Clark Quinn

is about informal learning, but the organization was moving to using social networking tools to scaffold their move from face-to-face to more online learning. So I was asked to talk about social networking and formal learning. After hearing Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker do such a great job on eLearning 2.0 Your thoughts?

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Looking Back at 2007

Tony Karrer

And if you are talking Reusable Learning Objects, Courseware Templates, Tracking Mechanisms, Content Management, etc. What is the form of informal learning? capabilities, with tracking being done behind the scenes. However, there's Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger announcement around Mzinga.

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LMSs that kick ass - OutStart

Janet Clarey

LMSs control, track and report on formal learning initiatives while a social media platform enables rather than controls informal learning. A: Jeff Whitney - It just makes sense to offer a social media platform to support the 80% of learning that occurs informally. Each has very different objectives.