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Is eLearning Dead? Is Instructional Design Dying with It?

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Think of the huge self-paced learning purchase of Lynda.com by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion and the subsequent purchase of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2 Just three years ago, LinkedIn posted fewer than 5,000 instructional designer job openings. billion (but obviously for more than just the self-paced eLearning of Lynda.com).

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A Conversation with New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin Kruse

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One year early, you should write a book, launch a company and get a massive number of connections on LinkedIn (sorry Snapchat doesn’t help). And let’s not forget LinkedIn. Even if people say they want a resume, you are your LinkedIn profile. Everybody—all recruiters—will sniff you out on LinkedIn. I’m not joking.

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Random Web 2.0 Statistics

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same source as above) Relative to the entire population of internet users, those who have been to graduate school are over represented on LinkedIn. Alexa, the Web Information Company) At LinkedIn, the average age is 41 with an average household income of $109,703 with over 50% having an income of $100k plus.

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Social Network = Social Class?

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Even more affluent are users of Twitter , the microblogging site, and LinkedIn, a networking site geared to white-collar professionals. Almost 38 percent of LinkedIn users earn more than $100,000 a year. And 37 percent of MySpace members earn less than $50,000 annually, compared with about 28 percent of Facebook users.

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ASTD Central Iowa Presentation Resources

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Wiki resources: Wikispaces PB Wiki Social Networking Links Ning Facebook LinkedIn __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide Avoiding Death by PowerPoint. Tell a story with your slides. meet Jessica View more presentations from bengardner135.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

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Sharing information, interests and areas of focus. Good for making connections with individuals who have similar interests. Connecting disparate pieces of information together across silos of organizations. Document Sharing and Document Management. Creation of a document that can be edited, modified and changed by multiple individuals.

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Conversation with Kevin Kruse–Best Selling Author

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I have over 50,000 email subscribes, another 50,000 LinkedIn connections, but what is most valuable are the thousand or so SuperFans. I spend an hour a day just trying to answer people’s questions, via email and in online groups. And I’ve done this for about three years now.

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