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What is social learning?

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Social learning’ has been the elearning buzzword du jour for a couple of years now and people often ask us exactly what social learning is. If learning is to be considered “social learning,” then it must: Demonstrate that a change in understanding has taken place in the individuals involved.

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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

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For those who missed last week’s post “ Part 1: Using Facebook as a learning platform ” we shared some important links for instructors interested in using Facebook with students. eLearning Learning Social Media Facebook' This week I would like to share my favorite YouTube videos on the subject!

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Competition Finalist 3: Social Learning Applied

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Social Learning. Social Learning is one of the four trending topics in the e-Learning industry right now (others being Mobile, Gamification and Bit-Size eLearning). Social Learning is vague. Roberta Gogos previously posted a great definition of what social learning is , but where do we go from here?

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Facebook for e-Learning

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News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". Using Facebook for e-Learning could inspire many of our students to learn.

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The Value of Student-Directed Learning

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With more people telecommuting these days, it only makes sense that teachers and scholars would do the same through student-directed learning. This reiterates a growing trend for learning online and the concept of student-directed learning is changing the traditional classroom environment. Disruptive or Disciplined.

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Using Facebook as a learning platform

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Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. For those interested in using Facebook with students the following links may be of use: [Resource: Facebook as an “interactive learning resource”? ].

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Calling all elearning infographics! – here’s 10 to start with

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Here I’d like to propose a collection of samples relevant to elearning and learning technologies. Growth of Distance Learning (USA). Are we wired for mobile learning? Which Social Network Should You Use — and When. A great set of infographics on social learning. elearning statistics for 2013.