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Social Learning Has Its Placeā€¦And Informal Learning Does Too.

Dashe & Thomson

Social learning refers to a class of learning, which includes wikis, blogs, screen sharing, podcasting, photo sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative working, social networking, etc. Social learning (small S, small L) does not refer to the use of social media in top-down, formal learning.

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eLearning Cyclops: Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally.

eLearning Cyclops

Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally Assess Its Impact #LCBQ. This months Big Question at Learning Circuits is regarding assessing the impact of informal learning. Much of this will be anecdotal information collected, but none the less information that has value in assessing impact.

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Open Source eLearning Tools

Tony Karrer

eLearning Technology , July 28, 2006 Scuttle ā€“ an open source social bookmarking tool Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools - eLearning Technology , May 21, 2008 Web 2.0 Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs.

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An Aha Moment - del.icio.us as Indicator of Valuable Content - Importantly My Content

Tony Karrer

I saw a post by Ray Sims that quoted Bill Ives writing: Putting my blog posts into del.icio.us also allows me to see who else tagged these posts to determine the ones that others found useful enough to tag in del.icio.us. Bookmarks might tell me about my top ten posts (counted by page view). But here's the "aha" for me.

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Informal Learning: An Interview With Jay Cross

The eLearning Coach

A funny thing happened while we were learning informally. A few astute people noticed it, wrote about it and brought it to the forefront of the learning arena. In fact, the buzz about informal learning seems to grow every day. Meet Jay Cross, author of Informal Learning , speaker and consultant.

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Top 100 Tools For Learning 2010 ā€“ C4LPT Survey

Upside Learning

Delicious ā€“ social bookmarking tool. Facebook ā€“ social networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a whoā€™s who of social and informal learning tools. The complete list has a very strong bias towards social tools. Slideshare ā€“ presentation hosting and sharing tool. Wordpress ā€“ blogging tool.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

A PLN is ā€œa system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learningā€ (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.