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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. Learning and development professionals should remember the Weak Ties theory when designing social learning systems. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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L&D Trends, Time Estimates: ID and eLearning Links 3/2/2021

Experiencing eLearning

An interactive comic explaining the Leitner method of spaced repetition to learn and remember information. If you feel like there’s too much noise on social media and want a way to focus on reading just what you’re interested in, RSS helps you do that. That would be equivalent to 252 hours to create one hour of elearning.

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Brief Intro to Social Networks

Experiencing eLearning

Intro to Social Networks. Social & Networked Learning combines psychology and technology. Tony: coming less from the theoretical underpinning, seeing more of this in the changes in how he gets information. Sometimes being social can help learning. This is post 1 of 3. George Siemens & Tony Karrer.

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Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning

Experiencing eLearning

This can be the social network. Also need to think about opportunity cost–what are you giving up to spend time on social media? Compare to other alternatives (formal/informal learning). I actually record valuable informal conversations in the wiki, before the value of those just were lost over time.&#.

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Mobile Enables Informal Learning

Upside Learning

I spoke (for 5 min) on how mobile enables informal learning. Informal Learning. Even though informal learning has been around for as long as we humans have been, the use of the term ‘Informal Learning’ in corporate has grown significantly in the last 5-8 years. So, Informal is important. Source: [link].

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. As a teacher, we learn how to manage that.

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Tips To Help Develop Employee’s Workplace Technology Skills

IT Training Department Blog

Quality technical training must be well thought out and executed purposefully, not informally. When training is too informal, and employees are thrown into the job, there’s a good chance they’ll be pretty unhappy and likely to leave. An enterprise social network is as much of an online learning platform as anything else.