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The Pros of Social Media for E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

The training industry is changing rapidly and technology plays a big role in that change, especially social media. Today, I’d like to discuss a few pros of social media as it relates to our industry and then I’ll follow it up with a post on some of the cons. What is Social Media?

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Empowering All the Voices: Another Reason to Love Social Media

OpenSesame

From college professors and software designers to technical writers and Second Life architects, we’ve had a diverse and fascinating crowd over the last several months. My fellow meetup-ers correctly diagnosed that I am an extroverted person in “real life” (what does that really mean anymore?) That’s not particularly surprising.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social media types with examples. New social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page&# under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. Social Bookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.us

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LMS/LCMS Social Media & Side Notes

eLearning 24-7

If you haven’t been looking at LMS/LCMS solutions lately or if you have, you may be noticing a trend - social media. Instead, let’s call it, what it really is and what it will be going forward – “Social Media&#. Social Media – Followed by an example.

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Learning, KM vs. SM, Information, Web 2.0, and Second Life

Big Dog, Little Dog

"Two British researchers have just completed a study of undergraduate students that found "many young students are far from being the epitomic global, connected, socially-networked technologically-fluent digital native who has little patience for passive and linear forms of learning." See, KM vs. Social Media: Beware the Warmongers.

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0

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Presentation Resources for Learning Tree Presentation

Kapp Notes

and Social Media in a post called Random Web 2.0 Here are some ideas for selling social media for learning. Books Miscellaneous Items: Ingredients of a Big Mac Sprint Now Network Commercial with Flava Flav Questions: What is one thing you can do to incorporate effective technology into organizational learning?

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