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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

Upside Learning

This week we deliver you a dose of the latest in mobile learning, Web design & development, eLearning and Social Media. Need to quench your thirst for the latest in learning, technology and media links further? You can dig into our previous lists here. Read the full report here.

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How Social Media is Evolving and Adapting Within Virtual Learning Programs

Clarity Consultants

Not long ago, many people would have balked at the idea of using social media within a learning environment. The original focus of these platforms wasn’t on learning, instead concentrating on the sharing of information among families and friend circles. However, as time has passed, social media has evolved.

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Six Social Media Trends

Upside Learning

Trawling through my feeds earlier this weeks I came across this link-up post by Ricard Nantel over at the Workplace Learning Blog pointing to a blog post on Harvard Business Publishing about six social media trends. Social media begins to look less social. Social business becomes serious play.

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Blended Learning: What’s all the fuss about?

B Online Learning

There has been a bit of hype at the beginning of this year about blended learning and it seems to be a topic at this year’s Learning Technologies 2015 conference in the UK. I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the term ‘blended learning’. The traditional idea of a blended learning environment […].

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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The Social Media Cigarette Break

Clark Quinn

In the course of my interviews for the mobile learning book, Robert Gadd ( OnPoint Digital ) made a comment that’s stuck with me. He opined that the new ‘cigarette’ break was the social media break where employees will stand outside with their mobile phone and check in on their social networks.

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

I noticed that I use more and more social media tools and different tools to communicate. ELearninglearning is the one I use most intense, but there are more like ‘ Working smarter Daily ‘ Social media. Maybe I use too many of them. So I decided to create a list of them to see what I could weed out.